47 LAGERSTROEMIA REGINA. 
gerstroemia indica; colour in the morning that of a pale rose, 
growing deeper and deeper through the day, and acquiring a 
purple tinge. 
Calyx below, on the outside beautifully groov’d into trapezoid 
figures. 
Corol as in Lagerstroemia indica. 
Stamens numerous, all of the same size, inserted into the calyx. 
Pistil, Capsule, and Seeds, as in the genus. 
This is a native of many of the woody mountains of the northern 
parts of the Circars, where it grows to a tree of a middling size. 
Flowers during the hot season. Seeds ripe in August. 
I know of no use any part of this tree is put to by the natives ; 
it is very beautiful when in flower, and well deserves a conspicuous 
place in our gardens ; it has flowered for some years in mine. 
66. LAGERSTROEMIA PARVIFLORA. 
Chinamghie of the Telingas. 
Trunk erect. Bark smooth, ash-colour’d. 
Branches very numerous, the large and lower spreading, the smaller 
nearly erect. 
Leaves opposite, or in numbers from scabrous tubercles, very 
short-petioled, oblong, above smooth, shining, below covered 
with a whitish down, entire, from two to four inches long, and 
one or two inches broad. 
Stipules none. 
Peduncles terminal, and from the axills of the exterior leaves, erect, 
round, smooth, bearing in general from three to six flowers ; 
or the whole extremities of the branchlets may be called a large 
leafy panicle. 
Flowers small, white. 
Calyx, Corol, Stamens, and Pistil as in the former. 
Capsule smooth, oval, size of a small nutmeg, three or four-cell’d, 
three or four-valved. 
Seeds wing’d, as in the genus. 
This is a small tree, a native of our Circar mountains. Flowers 
during the hot season ; seed ripe in August and September. 
The wood of this tree is used by the natives for various econo- 
mical purposes. Neither the flowers, nor the appearance of the 
tree, can recommend its being placed in the garden with the other 
two. 
67. THUNBERGIA FRAGRANS. 
Yeanadary Tiga of the Telingas. 
Root consists of many thick, woody fibres. 
Stem and Branches twining, woody, of considerable extent (two or 
three fathoms), jointed and swelled there from the insertions 
of the leaves or their cicatrices, round. Bark light ash-co- 
lour’'d. Young shoots downy. 
Leaves opposite, petioled, narrow-hearted, acute, behind tooth’d, 
slightly lob’d, or angular, three-nerved, scabrous, about three 
inches long, and one and a half broad. 
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Petiole about three quarters of an inch long, channel’d, bent in va- 
rious directions. 
Stipules none. 
Peduncle axillary, solitary, one-flower'd, round, club’d, downy ; one 
or two inches long. 
Bracts none. 
Flowers large, of the purest white. 
Calyx as in the genus, except that the leaves of the exterior are acute 
and many-nerved. 
Corol salver-form: Tube compress 'd, enlarged about the middle, a 
little hairy, longer than the exterior calyx, bent to one side 
with acurve, border flat, five-parted: divisions equal, inverse- 
egg'd, with their extremities lop’d, and in general irregularly 
three-tooth’d, shorter than the tube. 
Style length of the tube. 
Stigma two-lob’d: lobes inverse-hearted, funnel-form. 
Capsule sub-globular, flat-beak’d, two-cell’d, opening from the base 
with an elastic jerk. 
Seed in general one in each cell, the other seldom or never ripens ; 
round, rugose, with a large cavity (as in the Cocculi indici), 
which penetrates two-thirds of the seed. 
This plant is common in hedges, among bushes, on the banks of 
water-courses, about Samulcotah ; I have not met with it elsewhere. 
Flowers during the wet and cold seasons; when cultivated it 
flowers all the year. 
The plant possesses a peculiar and agreeable fragrance, and the 
beauty of its flowers, though not fragrant, intitles it to a place in 
the flower garden. 
68. FLACOURTIA SEPIARIA. 
Canrew of the Telingas. 
Stem very irregular. Bark dark rust-colour, smooth. 
Branches numerous, straggling. 
Thorns axillary, spreading, very numerous, large, and very sharp, 
leaf-and flower-bearing. 
Leaves on the young shoots alternate, on older branches fascicled, 
short-petioled, reflected, oval, serrated, smooth, about three- 
fourths of an inch long, and half an inch broad. 
Peduncle axillary, single, or many, undivided, one-flower’d. 
Flowers small. 
MALE FLOWERS. 
Calyx five-leaved : Leaflets oblong, erect, woolly. 
Corol none. 
Filaments very numerous. 
Anthers small. 
FEMALE FLOWERS on a distinct plant. 
Calyx as in the male. 
Germ above, oval. 
Styles three or four, short, a little spreading. 
Stigmas simple. 
Berry globular, succulent, size of a pea. 
Seeds from four to eight. 
This is a very common, thorny, shrubby plant, found in most 
woody uncultivated parts of the coast, both on mountains, and low 
lands. Flowers about the beginning of the hot season ; berries ripe 
in July and August. 
