MYRTACEM. 375 



51 ? Careya Roxb.' — Flowers nearly of Barringtonia, 5-merotis. 

 Stamens cjo ; the exterior longest and the innermost short sterile 

 anantherous ; the intermediate fertile ; anthers small, versatile. 

 Germen 4-5-looular ; ovules oo , 3-seriate, etc., of Barringtonia.^ 

 Berry globose corticate, crowned with calyx ; seeds oo , nestling in 

 pulp. Embryo undivided (of Barringtonia). — Lofty trees or some- 

 times subshrubby ; leaves alternate collected at top of twigs impunc- 

 tate ; flowers^ interruptedly spicate or racemose lateral. (East India, 

 trop. Australia.^) 



52. Petersia Welw.^ — " Flowers nearly of Barringtonia, 4- 

 merous; receptacle ovoid-turbinate, externally herbaceous-4-alate. 

 Sepals 4, alternating with wings, imbricate. Stamens all fertile ; 

 anthers sub-2-dymous ; cells divaricate. Germen inferior ; cells 2, 

 00 -ovulate. Fruit fibrous oblong,^ furnished externally with 4 longi- 

 tudinal membranous semiorbicular veined wings ; seeds 1-4 ; embryo 

 . . . ? — A large tree ; leaves alternate, penninerved membranous 

 pellucid-punctate ; flowers '' in short dense racemes solitary in upper 

 axils or gathered in a terminal corymb ; bracts and bracteoles few 

 caducous."^ (Trop. west. Africa.^) 



53. Foetidia Commees.'" — Flowers hermaphrodite apetalous, 3-4- 

 merous, very rarely 5-merous ; receptacle turbinate, enclosiag adnate 

 germen. Sepals 3-5 marginally inserted, thick coriaceous, valvate 

 or reduplicate-valvate, persistent. Stamens go , epigynous very 

 crowded, oo -seriate ; filaments free, unequal ;" anthers ovate or ob- 

 long, versatile ; cells parallel, longitudinally rimose. Germen inferior, 

 2-5-locular ; cells equal in number to sepals and alternating with 

 them ; style central erect slender, at apex stigmatose shortly 3-5- 

 branched ; branches open-recurved. Ovules in cells co , inserted on 



^ PI. Goromand. iii. 13, t. 217, 218; Fl.Jnd.ii. ioma).— Benth. M. Austral, iii. 289.— Walp. 



638.— DC. Frodr. iii. 295 (part).— Endl. Gen., n. Itep. ii. 192. 



6326.— Bl. v. Soutf. M, Serves, vii. 25.— B. H. « Ex B. H. Gen. 721, n. 61 a (not Kl.). 



Geit. 721, n. 62.— CamJMHAM. Mys. iii. 187 (ex ^ " Or with wings broadly oboordate (2i in. 



Endl.).— MiEEB (foe. c'U.t. 16, 17).— Hook. Fl. long, 2 in. broad)." 



Ind. ii. 510. — Doxoma Mieks (foe. eit. 54, 99, t. ' Kather BmaD. 



15). A genus ^TO^o&eA. ioi Careya pendula ^ " A genus allied to -Bamn^iowiff, differing in 



Gripp. Stravadium cochincUnense Bl. Barring- punctate leaves, wings of calyx, and fruit and 



tonia cylindrostachya Gbipf. B. rosea, Wxll. B. anthers." (B. H.) 



sarcosiachys Wall. B. stmatrana Mia. B. neo- ' Spec. 1. P. africana Welw.— Laws. Oliv. 



caledonica Vieill. Vriesii Teysm. etc. Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. 439. 



2 Of which rather a section. '" Ex J. Gen. 325.— Lamk. Diet. ii. 457 ; III- 1. 



= Large or small, often showy, white ; sta- 419.— DC. Prodr. iii. 295.— Endl. Gen. n. 6328. 



mens a beautiful red. -H. Bn. Payer Fam. Nat. 369.-B. H. Gen. 724, 



* Spec. 2, 3. Wight, III. ii. t. m, 100 ; Icon. n. 73.— Baker, Fl. Maurit. 120. 



t. 147, 157.— Wight and Arn. Prodr. i. 334.— " The larger the nearer they are to the middle 



'Ib.-w.' Fnwn. PI. Zeyl. 119.— MiQ. Fl. Ind.-Bat. of the sepals, often inflexed in the bud. 

 i. p. i. 494.— F. MuELL. Fragm. v. 183 (Barring- 



