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covering nearly the whole interior surface of the ovary-cells. Capmle globose 

 on the thick spreading calyx, coriaceous, perfectly or imperfectly 4-8-celled, 

 4-8-valved. Seeds innumerable, minute, ellipsoid, testa produced at both ends 

 m two tails much exceeding the length of the nucleus. — Distrib. Species 2, 

 extending from Nipal south-eastwards to the Philippines and Borneo. 



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1. D. sonneratioides. Ham. in Trans, Linn, Soc, xvii. 178 ; flowering 

 calyx nearly 1 in. wide at the base, petals 4-7 nearly 1 in., capsule 4-8- 

 yalved. Hook. f. III. Him. PL 1. 11 ; Kurz For, FL i. 525. Lagerstroemia 

 grandiflora, Boxh. Hart. Beng. 38 ; FL Ind. ii. 503 ; DC. Prodr. iii. 93; WalL 

 Cat. 2111 ; Plume Mu8. Pot. i. 109. Leptospartion gmndiflorum, Griff, Ic. PL 

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^ Nipal to Maetabak; alt. 500-3000 ft.; common in the Sikkim and Bhotax 



\l Tree attaining 100 ft. Leaves commonly 10 by 3| in; petiole usually ^-:^ in. — 

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Trees, growing near the sea, glabrous. Leaves opposite, petioled, coriaceous, 

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cbes, or axillary solitary. Cali/x thick, coriaceous ; lobes 4-8, lanceolate, 

 valvate. Petals or as many as the calyx-lobes and linear-oblong. Stamens 

 ▼eiy many, inserted in a circular band on the calyx-tube. Ovmy nearly free, or 

 adnate at the base to the calyx-tube, manv-celled ; style long, stigma capitate ; 

 ovules very many, ascending, placentas axile. Per7y subglobose, supported by 

 ^e persistent calyx, 10-16-ceIled. -S'eccfe very many, small, curved, angular; 

 ?^tjledons convolute. — Distrib. Species 4-5 on the tropical sea-shores of the 

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- apetala, Ham, in Syme Emb. Ava iii. 313, t. 25 ; leaves narrow^ 

 , o. calyx-lobes 4, petals 0, stigma more than ^ in. broad, capsule ^-f in, 

 broad globose. DC, Prodr, iii. 231 ; Poxh, Hart. Peng, 38 ; FL Ind, ii. 500 ; 

 M Nov, Sp, 233 ; WalL Cat, 3642 ; W. ^ A. Pi'odr. 327 ; Gnf. Notxd. iv. 



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Common in the Sooxderbun. Drccan Peninstjla as far as the Concan, Law. 

 ■*-fiAN8GANGETic Pekinsula to Moulmein, Falconet, 



Tree attaining 40 ft., growing in mangrove swamps flooded by the tide. Leaves 

 ^^^ by ui^ in^ always narrow, attenuated at the base; petiole \ in. Calyx in 

 noflrer \ in^^ g^^j^ included or scarcely exsert. Capsule broacfor than high, convex at 



IT Stigma capitatey not very large. 



2- S. aclda, Linn. f. Suppl. 252 ; leaves oWong or i 

 Ptic, calyx-lohes 6, petals 6 linear-oblong dark-red, capsule 

 gfssed often 2 in. broa^. Hoxb. Hort. Beng. 38 ; Fl. Ind. ii. 60< 

 % 233 : DC. Prodr. iii. 231 ; Wall. Cat. 3641 ; W. ^ A. Prodi 



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