. The vegetable kingdom : or, The structure, classification, and uses of plants, illustrated upon the natural system. Fig. DII.—Deutzia crenata.—>S/c& the same, showing the placentation ; 4 1. a flower with tlie petals removed ; 2. a fruit; 3. a portionsection of a seed very highly magnified. 3c 754 BARRINGTONIACEiE. [Epigynous Exogens. Order CCXC. BARRINGTONIACEiE.—Barringtoniads. Myrtacese, § Barringtonieae, DC. Prodr. 3. 288. (1828); Bartl. Ord. Nat. 322. (1830).—Barringtoniese,DC. Diet. Class, v. XI. not. (1826); Martius Conspectus, No. 319 (1835) ; Wight Illustr. 2. 19. Diagnosi
. The vegetable kingdom : or, The structure, classification, and uses of plants, illustrated upon the natural system. Fig. DII.—Deutzia crenata.—>S/c& the same, showing the placentation ; 4 1. a flower with tlie petals removed ; 2. a fruit; 3. a portionsection of a seed very highly magnified. 3c 754 BARRINGTONIACEiE. [Epigynous Exogens. Order CCXC. BARRINGTONIACEiE.—Barringtoniads. Myrtacese, § Barringtonieae, DC. Prodr. 3. 288. (1828); Bartl. Ord. Nat. 322. (1830).—Barringtoniese,DC. Diet. Class, v. XI. not. (1826); Martius Conspectus, No. 319 (1835) ; Wight Illustr. 2. 19. Diagnosis.—(rrossaZ Exogens, ^vith pulpy or fibrous fruit, axile placentcs, 1 style, 00stamens, and an imbricated calyx. Trees or shrubs, with alternate, often serrated leaves, destitute of transparent Sepals 4- 5, superior,tals the same number,bricated, distinct. StamensGO, distinct, monadelphousor polyadelphous ; anthersoblong. Ovary inferior,smmounted by an epigy-nous disk, 2- 4- 5-celled,v\ith axile placentse; ovules00 ; style simple ; stigma somewhat capitate. Fruit fleshy, surmounted by the per-manent calyx, with bony seeds lodged in pulp ; embryo inthe axis of copious fleshy albumen. Almost all writers regard these plants as kindred to theMyrtleblooms ; and yet they are assuredly quite distinct,differing in the presence of a large quantity of albumen,and in having alternate leaves, without transparent dots,but often serrated. They appear in fact to be muchnearer Syringas than Myitleblooms, and to stand in thesame relation to the former as Myrtles to Onagrads. Bytheir pulpy fruit they may be looked upon as a connectinglink between the Grossal and Cinchonal AlUances, amongthe latter of which they are imitated by the has remarked that the seeds are very like
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