610 Lix. MTETACE^ (baebingtoniej) by C. B. Clarke.) [Barringtonia. 



An evergreen glatrous tree 30-40 ft. Leaves 12 by 3 J in., much narrowed at 

 either end, minutely crenulate-dentate ; petiole longer than in the other Bpecies and 

 dilated at the base, ^ke with thickened rachis, glabrous or scarcely puberulous ; 

 bracts subulate, small, caducous. Calyx total length |-1 in., tube quadrangular, not 

 winged in the bud. Petals high red, filaments white. Fruit 2^ by 1|- in., ellipsoid, 

 equally tapering to each end, roundish but with 4 distinct ribs. — Kurz has reduced 

 all the synonyms above except Careya pendvla of GrifSth, of which he appears to 

 have possessed no example and which he supposed to differ by having the flowers 

 pediceUed, But in Griffith's Careya pendtda the flowers are sessile or subsessile, and 

 it does not appear to differ in any way &om Barringtonia macrostachya. 



10. B. rig'lda, C. B. Oarke ; leaves long-petioled lanceolate, spikes 2-3 in. 

 rigid erect sub-tomentose. Doxomma rigidum, Miers in Trans. Linn. Soe. ser, 

 ii. Bot. i. 104. 



Malacca ; Mainga/y, No. 767. 



Leaves 12 by 3 J in., glabrous, acute at each end, entire or very nearly so ; petiole 

 I^ in., not dilated at the base. Spikes from axils not close to the end of the branches, 

 rusty brown. Fruits g by J in., sessile, approximated, erect, with 4 obtuse angles, 

 nearly equa,lly wide their whole length, subtruncate at apex and base, fibrous. — This 

 species is quite unlike all others of the section : the fruits are more like those of sect. 

 Stravadium, but Miers has satisfied himself that they contain 3 abortive cells : flowers 

 uiiknown. 



10. CA.a,IiTtA., Boxb. 



Trees or very small shrubs. Leaves alternate, crowded towards the ends of 

 the branches, membranous, slightly crenate-serrate, pinnate-nerved, not dotted, 

 narrowed at the base, sessile or petioled. Flowers large, in racemes or in- 

 terrupted spikes. Caiyx-tvie campanulate or ftmnel-shaped, hardly produced 

 above the ovary ; lobes 4, ovate, imbricate. Petals 4, imbricate. Stamens very 

 many, in several series, Slightly eoimate at the base ; filaments filiform, inner- 

 most and outermost without anthers. Ovary inferior, 4-5-celled, crowned by 

 an annular disc ; style long, simple, stigma small ; ovules very many on axile 

 vertical placentas, in two rows in each cell. Fruit large, globose, fibrous, 

 crowned with the calyx ; dissepiment absorbed or obscure. Seeds numerous, 

 lying in pulp, ellipsoid ; albumen ; embryo large, cotyledons obsolete. — Dis- 

 IKIB. Species 3 ; confined to India. 



1. C. herbacea, Boxb. Cor. PI. iii. 13, t. 217 ; Fl. Ind. ii. 638 ; a small 

 undershrub, leaves cuneate-oblong or obovate serrulate. DC. Prodr. iii 296 • 

 Wall. Cat. 3638 ; Wight Ic. t. 557 ; Brand. Far. Fl. 237 ; Kurz For. Fl. i. 499 ; 

 Miers in Trans. lAnn. Soe. ser. ii. Bot. i. 96. 



Terai of the Himaiata and Khasia Mts., alt 0-1000 ft. ; from Ettmaon to Cnrr- 

 TAOONG ; extending throughout dry jungles in the plain of Bengal ; not rare : especi, 

 ally in sun-grass Terai jungles annually burnt in the dry season. 



Bootstock woody, perennial ; herbaceous leafy flowering shoots 6-8 in. Leaves 

 7 by 2i in., obtuse, long attenuate at the base, glabrous or obscurely puberulous ; 

 petiole 0-Jin. Flowers 1-2 rarely several on each shoot, terminal ; peduncles i-liin. 

 grey puberulo-pubescent ; bracts 2, i-J in., linear, at the base of the calyx ; flower 

 subarticulated within the bracts. Ca^x total length | in. ; tube campanulate,' terete ; 

 lobes ovate, obtuse. Petals 1-1|- in., greenish-purple, eUiptie. Fruit 1-li in. diam.[ 

 globose, crowned by the persistent calyx and often by the style. — Careya herbacea. 

 Griff. Noitd. iv. 660 is a confused description only partly referring to the present 

 plant ; perhaps mixed in the editing, as Miers suggests. 



