Stravadium
(from tsjeria samstravadi, the Malabar name of one of the species). ORD. Myrtaceae. A small genus (about five species) of ornamental trees, now included, by Bentham and Hooker, under Barringtonia. Calyx three or four-cleft, with imbricated lobes. The two best-known species are described below. They require a compost of two parts loam, one peat, and one sand. Water should be given in abundance, and a moist atmosphere at all times maintained, the temperature ranging from 65deg. to 95deg. Propagated by cuttings, with leaves intact, obtained from the lateral shoots; these, taken off at a joint when the wood is ripe, and inserted in sand, with a hand glass over them, root readily.
S. album (white). fl. white, in very long, pendulous racemes June. fr. ovate. l. cuneate-oblong, acuminate, obsoletely serrulated. h. 20ft. Polynesia, &c., 1850.
S. rubrum (red). fl. red, in very long, pendulous racemes. June. fr. acutely four-angled. l. cuneate-oblong, acuminate, obsoletely serrulated. h. 20ft. to 30ft. East Indies, 1822. SYN. Barringtonia acutangula.