496 MYRTACEZ. [ Barringtonia. 
Embryo thick and fleshy, ~~ —— of a woody rind a 
nd a 
medullary stratum.—Trees rnate, penninerved, not dotted 
leaves. Flowers usually ruber in terminal or lateral racemes or 
spikes. Bracts Mes deciduous, usually small. 
* brs an Pe losed, —— valvately rupturing in 2-4 
Flowers pedice 
“Fruit gee pe angular. 
yee about 3 n diameter or larger, in corymb-like, short, 
ect cen eur ves entire, sessile 
. B. speciosa. 
Flowers about a n diameter, in long, slender, pendulous ra- 
cemes ; inion crenulate, very short] . racemosa. 
x X Fru 
YY petio 
it cen se pyr ams with short wing- -like 
appendages aslo 
Leaves crenulate ; racemes zathe . B. conoidea. 
in the l oe imbricate. 
lower pedicelled ; rachis of raceme slender ; ; fruits 
sharply 4-cornered. 
Saeteons or slightly pubescent ; flowers red, rather small; leaves 
enulate, short petio 
xX X Flowers — the Packie of the spike very thick 
and almo. 
st fles 
a Cote winged ; fruits narrowly winged 
the corner: 
- B. acutangula, 
Leaves blunt or acute at the base, “not ——— calyx-lobes 
reunded, 2 lin. long s - . - B. augusta. 
—— long- decurrent and acuminate at e base ‘ealyx-lo 
angular-ovate, aE ge r less acute, aot 3 lin. Ion. 
. B. pterocarpa. 
Calyx-tube not winged fraite mhiven ). 
eaves entire, elongate, long-petioled B. macrostachya, 
ent s elongate, long-petioled ; flowers ‘pedicelled ; calyx terete a pendula, 
1. B. speciosa, L.f.; Bedd. Sylv. Madr. 112.—Kyée-hyee—An 
evergreen tree (30—50 + 6—15 + 4—8), all parts glabrous; 
leaves large, obovate-cuneate, weusile, with a narrowed rounded 
base, blunt to almost retuse, 1-2 ft. long, thick membranous or thin 
coriaceous, entire, glabrous ‘and glossy ; flowers sete So up to 
3 in. in diamete ter, white, on a 1-2 in. long pedi 
Has.—Frequent along the sea-shore of the er 
2. B. racemosa, DC.; Bedd. Sylv. Madr. 112.—Kyee-pen.— An 
evergreen tree (40—50 4+ 20—25-44—5) , all parts em: ; leaves 
more or less cuneate-oblong to cuneate-lanceolate, roun tuse 
at the narrowed base, on a short petiole 2-3 lin. long, shortly acu- 
late, — chartaceous 8 in. long, glabrous; flowers con- 
is, white or pale rose-coloured, on slender 2 to 3 lin. long 
ing a long, pendulous, quite eoheae. sieneee raceme 
