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Trees or shrubs. Leaves opposite, distichous (or the uppermost alternate), 

 entire, oblong or ovate. Panicles axillary and terminal, usually trichotomous, 

 sometimes dense ; peduncles 2-bracteate at their apex ; pedicels 2-hracteolate. 

 Flowers often large. Calyx-tuhe funnel-shaped, smooth grooved angular or 

 subalate ; lobes 6 sometimes 7-9, ovate, subacute, valvate. Petals 6 sometimes 

 ^'9 (or 0), inserted at the summit of the calyx-tube, clawed, wrinkled, 

 margm crisped erose or fimbriate. Stamens very many, inserted near the bot- 

 tom of the calyx-tube ; filaments long, exsert. Ovary sessile, in the bottom of 

 the calyx, 3-6-celled ; style long, bent, stigma capitate ; ovules very many, 

 ascending, placentas axile. Capsule more or less adnate to the calyx, ellipsoid, 

 coriaceous, smooth, 3-6-celled, 3-6-valved. Seeds many (rarely few), elongate, 

 flat, erect, winged from their summit. — Distkib. Species 18, in South-east 

 Asia extending to Australia ; Burma being the centre of the genus. 



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1. Zi. Indica, Linn,; DC^ Prodr, iii.93; petals ^-f in. long-clawed, cap- 

 stLe ^ in. diam. nearly globose, calvx-teeth erect on the fruit. Rovh. Hurt, 

 ^^ng. 38 ; FL Ind. ii. 505 ; Bot Mag. t. 405 ; W. ^ A, Prodr, 308 ; Wight III. 

 t.86; Kurz Fm\ FL i. 621. 



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L. elegans. Wall, in Paxt. Mag. Pot. xiv. 269, 

 Velaga globosa, Gaertn. Fruct. t. 133. 



Throughout India; common in gardens ; possibly wild in the eastern boundary^ 

 DiSTEiB. Cultivated throughout the warm parts of Asia originally from China. 



A shrub, showy in flower, Leaves2 in., glabrous, elliptic or oblong, sessile, acute 

 Qr somewhat obtuse at each end, never acuminate. Panicle not condensed, minntely 

 pubescent or glabrous. Petals bright pink. Calyx-teeth on the fruit long-triangular, 

 erect but distant, thin not woody. Seed \ in. Including its wing. 



_^2. I,, parviflora, Roxh. Hort. Bcng. S8; Cor. PL t. 66; FL Ind. ii. 



^5 J leaves glabrous or shortly pubescent beneath, petiole less than ^ in., petals 

 |f5s tlian ^ in., calyx-teeth ultimately woody erect closely adpressed to the 

 iruit. DC. Prodr. iii. 93 ; WalL Cat 2119 attogether not partly as say W. ^- A. 

 ^odr. 308 ; Wight Ic. t. 69 : GriW, Ic. PL Asiat. t. 592 ; Bedd. FL Sylv. t. 31 

 (^0^. Sf Gibs. Bomb. FL 98; Brand. For. FL 239; Kiirz For. FL i. 521. 



tf: Fatioa, Blu7ne Mus. Bot. ii. 125. Fatioa nepaulensis, WalL ; DC. IVodr, 



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At the base of the Western Himalaya, alt. 1000 ft. Throughout the Deccan 

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^ A. tree, attaining 60 ft.*^ Leaves 2-3^ in., glabrous in the typical plant, obiona^, 

 ^u.te or acuminate with the apex obtuse, beneath a lighter colour, often prominently 

 piculate. Panicles many- or few-flowered, not condensed. Calyx glabrous puberu- 

 _J^s or minutely pubescent, in fruit somewhat funnel-shaped at the base, teeth small. 

 j<^^oJs narow, white. Capsule variable in size, in the typical plant f~l by ^-| in. 

 ^^(with the wing) ^ in. and upwards. 



"ar. 1. majuscuUi ; leaves glabrous larger sometimes 4-5 by 2 in., fruit very large, 

 ^nietimes exceeding U by 1 in. . L. lanceolata, Bedd, Fl. Sylv. t. 32, 7wt of Wall— 

 ^nimon on the north-eastern edge of the Deccan Plateau in Chota Nagpore and 

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