508 Lix. MYETACBiE (BAREiNGTOKiE^ by C. B. Clarke.) IBarHngtom^. 



nearly its Ml length before on^third its foil breadth ; in Mainga/e examples nearly 

 ellipsoid : exocarp very thick, fibrous. 



• <? B cevlanica, Gardn. MS. ; racemes pendulous pedicels ^| m., calyx- 

 tube 'inthe hud broadly funnel-shaped segments 4 at first rounded rather ton 

 OTSte B racemosa var. 0., Thwaites ^um. 119. Butonica ceylamca, Mm, 

 in. Trans. Li'm. Soc. ser. ii. Bot. i. 77. 



OErTLOH, south of the island abundant ; Thwaites. 



Treated by Mr. Thwaites as a var. of B. racemosa, and after specific separation by 

 Miers I. e. reduced to B. racemosa again by Kurz in Joum. As 8oe. 1877, pt. iL 70. 

 Butonica intermedia, Miers I. c. &om New Caledonia differs by calyx-lobes 2-3, ovate. 



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4. B. conoidea, Crriff. Notvl 656, Ic. 63S, 636 fig. 1 ; racemes suheiect, 

 calyx-tube in the hud campanulate somewhat um-shaped, fruit ovoid with 8 

 wing-like descendingprocesses from the base. Kurz For. Fl. i. 497. B. alata, 

 Wall. Cat. 3633. Butonica alata, Mien in Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. ii. Bat. i. 

 70, t. 14, fig. 10-15. 



MonxMEiN ; WaUich. Coast forests of Tekasseeim ; Kurz. Malacca ; Griffith. 



An evergreen shrub or small tree {Kurz'), glabrous. Leaves 7 by 2f in., oblong, 

 narrowed downwards, at the very base cordate, crenulate-serrulate or nearly entire ; 

 petiole J in., thick. Baceme 4 in., lax, but erect ; pedicels J-| in., glabrous (or some- 

 what puberulous, Kurz). Calyx-tvie broad at Uie base, the 8 descendingprocesses 

 often manifest in the bud as figured by Griffith. Calyx-lobes usually 2, | in., oTate. 

 Petals and style as in B. racemosa. Fruit 1^ by 1 in., conicaJly ovoid, broadest at the 

 very base and there 8- winged ; wings produced downwards in 8 semi-cordate pro- 

 cesses. — Mr. Miers 1. c. has asserted that GrifSth's figures are mixed, and that partof 

 them refer really to B. alba, Miers : but Kurz has rectified this in Joum. M. Soc. 

 1877, pt. ii, 70. Griffith's figures agree more closely with the material than do 

 Miers's. 



Sect. Stravadlum, Jtiss. (gen.). Oalj/x %htly imbricate, 3-5- (usually 

 4-) lolsed. (Stkavabium and Doxomma of Miers). 



* Ovary 2-eeUed, whole calyx less than i in. (Sieatadium:, Miers). 



5. B. acutang'ula, Gaertn. Fruct. ii. 97, t. 101 ; leaves shorfc-pelioled 

 cuneate-elliptic, racemes elongate pendulous, fruit quadrangular oblong equally 

 narrowed towards and subtruncate at each end. jRojtS. Fl. Lnd. ii. 635 ; W. Sf 

 A. Fi-odr. 333 ; Mig. Fl. Lnd. Bat. i. pt. i. 488 ; L>ah. ^ Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 95; 

 Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 204 ; Brand. For. Fl. 235 ; Kurz. For. Fl. i. 497. Eugenia 

 acutangula, Linn. Sp. PI. 673. Stravadium acutangulum, Miers in Trans. Linn. 

 Soc. ser. ii. Bot. i. 80. S. rubrum. Wall. Cat. 3635. S. obtusangulum, demissmn, 

 Kheedii, globosmn, Miers 1. c. pp. 81, 82, 86 with syn., and probably (from the 

 descriptions) several others of which examples authenticated by Mr. Miers have 

 not been seen. — Bheede Sort. Mai. iv. t. 7. 



Throughout ItiniA from the Himajlaya to Ceylon and Sincapose very common ; 

 no tree is more plentiful in the plain of Bengal. — Distbib. Malaya ; and North-West 

 Australia (if Stravadium graciie Miers be considered the same species as by Bth. Fl. 

 Austral, iii. 288). 



Attaining 30-40 ft., glabrous. Leaves 5 by 2 in., minutely denticulate-crenate, 

 narrowed into the petiole i-^ in. Sacemes often 1 foot, glabrous, rachis not succu- 

 lent ; pedicels 0-^ in. Cah/x-tube in the bud very short, funnel-shaped ; lobes i in., 

 roundish, not longer on the fruit. Petals i in., -pijik. FiUanents long,' vsaaHj rei. 



Fruit 1-1 J by J-| in., broadest in the middle, angles broad, rounded. "Indian Oak " 



of the English denizens. 



