Careya. | MYRTACER. 499. 
almost serrulate; spikes up to 24 ft. long, arising from the older 
branches, suleate, densely flowered ; flowers. large; calyx pisnnst 
obovate, the limb 4-cleft, the lobes rotundate, erect, persisten 
4-celled.—/ (After Griffith.) 
Has.—Tenasserim. 
CAREYA, Roxb. 
Calyx-tube thick, on or turbinate, yt A ap we: beyond the 
ovary, the limb deeply 4- or 5-lobed. tals 4, or rarely 5 
Stamens numerous, in several series, quite ete the nt 6 © longer 
ones or the innermost shorter ones or bot uced to stam- 
inodes, the median ones or nearly all perfect ; anthers ecg Ovary 
inferior, 4- or rarely 5-celled, with several ovules in 2 to 6 rows in 
each cell; style elongate, with a so somewhat capitate or slightly 4- 
- lobed stigma. Fruit globose, fleshy, crowded by the calyx-limb, 
many-seeded. Seeds funicled, irregularly scattered and en sia 
in a fleshy aa Embryo entire ; cotyledons non pt Aes 
* Flowers on long pedicels 
Undershrub; berry o nly an inch thick; seeds about 3lin. long . €. herbacea. 
Petals Eigen round Pb concave; ovules in 2 rows in 
each ¢ “ : : <i ty ; : ‘ . . C. arborea. 
- Petals acute, the borders revolute. Ovules in 6 rows in each cell . C. spheriea. 
1. C. arborea, Roxb.; Bedd. Sylv. Madr. t. 205 and Anal. t. 19, 
a 8 ; Brand. For. vt 236. — Ban-bway— —A tree (50—6 0412204 
5—8), remaining stunted in sterile grounds, ie pe leaves during 
H.S., all parts glabrous ; leaves obovate, while young sessile witha 
Be errent base, afterwards shortly and thick-petvoled. shortly apicu- 
late, $-1 ft. long, crenate-serrulate, chartaceous, glabrous; flowers 
large, nearly 24 in. in diameter, white, with purple filaments, sessile, 
each supported by 3 unequal bracts and ita a short almost 
cluster-like spike at the end of the branches ; calyx pruinous, the tu 
hemispheriecally ovoid, nearly $ an inch long, the lobes 4 in. long, 
leathery, rounded ; petals oblong, concave (not revolute), 1} in. 
long, rounded or blunt ; outer series of stamens much longer and 
much shorter and converging; ovary-cells with only 2 vertical 
To : ; berry ovoid or globose, the size of a large apple, 
smooth, crowned by the ealyx-limb ; seeds oblong, somewhat com 
pressed, } in. long, the testa pale brown, thin coriaceous, s pads is 
Has.—Common in all leaf-shedding forests, are in the open, acy lower 
mixed and caaeeh forests, all over Burma from Pegu and Martaban down to 
FL. Apr.-May ; Fr. alee 
