■■574 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



leaves opposite entire (small) ; flowers ' axillary solitary ; peduncles 

 short or very short, 2-bracteolate. {Australia.^) 



IV. BAERINGTONIA. 



49. Barringtonias Forst. — Flowers hermaphrodite, 4- or rarely 

 5-merous ; receptacle concave obconical or sacciform, scarcely or not 

 at all produced beyond the germen adnata within. Calyx valvate, 

 j&nally 2-4-fid [Butonica *) ov imbr'iG&te 3-4-lobed {Stravadium^). 

 Petals 4, 5, epigynously inserted and alternating with sepals, imbri- 

 cate. Stamens oo , at base connate with petals in a short ring and 

 falling with them ; filaments otherwise free, exserted ; anthers small, 

 versatile or rarely subbasifixed, 2-rimose. Disk epigynous sur- 

 rounding with a short ring the top of the germen and base of style. 

 Germen inferior, 2-4-locular ; style simple, often subulate, scarcely 

 or not at all dilated at stigmatose apex. Ovules in cells 2-oo , trans- 

 verse or descending, 2-seriate, or the inferior descending ; micropyle 

 introrsely superior. Fruit fleshy or oftener fibrous, often 4-angular, 

 crowned with persistent calyx, indehiscent. Seed generally by 

 abortion 1, testa oftener thick ; embryo exalbuminous fleshy undi- 

 vided corticate. — Trees or shrubs ; leaves alternate, often crowded at 

 top of twigs, entire, crenate or serrate, penninerved impunctate ; 

 flowers in racemes or spikes, sometimes broken or very elongate ; 

 bracts small caducous ; bracteoles 2, very small or 0. (Trop. regions 

 of old world.) — See p. 326. 



50 ? Planchonia Bl.® — Flowers nearly of Barringtonia, 4-merous; 

 sepals 4, imbricate. Stamens oo ; anthers small, versatile ; the interior 

 longer anantherous. Germen 3-4-locular ; cells oo -ovulate. Berry 

 corticate, crowned with calyx. Seeds few ; funicle elongate ; cotyle- 

 dons of involute circinate embryo foliaceous plicate ; radicle very long 

 clavate spirally convolute. — Trees ; leaves alternate crenate impunctate 

 and other characters oi Barringtonia;'^ flowers terminal,^ shortly race- 

 mose ; bracts and bracteoles not caducous, oblong.® {Indian Ar chip}") 



' Minute, or Bmall, pink. timorensis BL.—C/njdenanthm Miees. {loc. cit. 



^ Spec. 6, 7. Pom. Diet. Suppl. t. 247 {Stere- 54, 111). A genus proposed for £. excelsa Bl. 



oxt/lon).—SM..Ti-ans. Linn. Soc. iii. 259 {Imbrica- 4 Miees {loc. cit. 54, 69, 1. 13, 14). 



ria).—'&m-B. Sprang. Syst. Cur. post.liS{B(Eckea). " Mizes {loc. cit. 64, 80, t. 17); 54, 107, t. 



— F. MuELL. Tragm. i. 30 [Bceckm) ; iv. 63 18. 



[Thryptomene).—BEa's:is.. Fl. Austral, iii. 63. 6 F. SoutteB. des Serres, vii. 24.— B. H, Gen. 



= MiERS, ' OiiBarringtoniace<s' (Trans. Zinn. 721, „. 63.— Miers {loc. cit. 5i, 90, t. 18).— 



Soc. ser. 2, i. [1875] 47 ; Barringtonia {loc. cit.) Hook. Ft. Ind. ii. 511. 



54, 55, t. 10).— Jgasta Miees {loc. cit. 54, 69, t. 7 Of which rather a section (?). 



11, 12). A genus proposed for £. splendida, So- « " Golden greenish or white." 



LAUD, macrophylla Mia. speciosa Wight & Aen. s Rather perhaps a section of the preceding ? 



—Megadendron Mieks {loc. cit. 54, 109, t. 15, 16). " Spec. 2, 3 (or var. of one ?). Miq. Fl. Ind.- 



A genus proposed for B. macrocarpa Hassk. and Bat. i. p. i. 493. — Wal?. Ann. iv. 852. 



