Babeihgtonii.] MYBTACE^. 343 



Vab. microcarpa, Thwaites. B. Jambolana var. caryophyllifolia, F. B. L 

 I.e.; Watt E. B- E. caryophyllifolia, Lamlc. ; Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii, 486. 

 gyzygium lateriflorum, Uoyle Jfss, — Vern. Jamoa.— Leaves oblong-Ian* 

 ceolate, f alcately acuminate. Panicles shorter and with stouter branches. 

 Berry globose, about the size of a large pea,— A smaller tree with 

 pendulous branchlets. It is largely used as a boundary fence for fruit 

 gardens. Flowers in June. The fruit is sometimes eaten. 



■ 3. E. Hevneana, Buthie in F. B. I. ii, 500. Syzygium Heyneanum, Wall. 

 ■S. salicifolium, Grah. ; B. Sf G. Bomb. Fl. 94 (r^ot of Wall.). 



A small tree or shrub. Leaves 3-5 in. long, shortly petioled, narrowly 



lanceolate or elliptic, obtusely acuminate, finely and closely nerved. 



Panicles laxly branched, usually lateral from the axils of fallen leaves. 



Calyw-lohes unequal. Petals united, concave, white. Fruit ^ in. long, 



oblong, crowned by the cup-like calyx-limb. 

 Bundelkhand (Edgeworth, Duthie), Saugor (Vicary), usually found on 



river-banks. Distbib. Chota Nagpur, Central and W. India. The 



fruit is eaten. 



2. BARRINGTONIA, Eorat. ; Fl. Brit. Ind. ii, 505. 



Trees. Leaves alternate, crowded towards the ends of the branches, 

 entire or slisjhtly crenate-serrate, pinnate-nerved, not dotted. Floioers 

 in elongated terminal and lateral racemes, less often in interrupted 

 spikes*, bracts small, deciduous. Calyx-tube scarcely produced, 

 above the ovary; lobes 2-4, valvate, or 3-5, imbricate. Petals 

 4, rarely 5, much imbricate, somewhat adnate to the base of staminal 

 tube. Stamens many, in several series, connate shortly into a tube at 

 tlie base ; filaments filiform, long, all bearing anthers. Ovary 

 inferior, 2-4-celled, crowned with an annular disk ; style long, simple ; 

 stigma small. Ovules 2-8 in each cell, pendulous. Fruit fibrous or 

 ■somewhat berried, globose ellipsoid or 4 -angular, crowned by the 

 €alyx, 1-seeded by abortion. Seed ovoid or ellipsoid, tvlthout albumen. 

 — Species about 25, in Trop» Asia, Africa, Australia and Polynesia, 

 often near the sea. 



"b." acutangula, GcBrtn. Frmt.ii, 97, t. 101; Uoadb. Fl. Ind. ii, 635; W. 



4- A. Prod. 333; B. Sr G. Bomb. Fl. 95 ; Brand. For. Fl. 235 ; F. B. I. ii, 



503 ; Watt E. D.— Vern. Samundar-phal, injar. 



•A small or moderate-sized glabrous tree._ Leaves shortly stalked, !2-5 in. 

 long, obovate-oblong or euneate-elliptic, rounded or subacute at the 

 broad apex, minutely denticulate or crenate, glabrous, pale beneath, 

 main lateral nerves 10-13 pairs. Flowers deep pink, in long slender 

 pendulous racemes ; bracts oblong, caducous. Calyx with a short 

 tube and 4 rounded imbricate ciliate lobes. Petals small. Filaments 

 about 3 times as long as the petals, red. Ovary 2-celled. Fruit Ij-l^ in. 

 long, quadrangular- oblong, crowned by the persistent calyx-lobes. 



