| Lawsonia.] L. LYTHRARIES. 301 . 
1. L, alba, Zam. ; DC. Prod. iii.91. A glabrous, much-branched shrub of 
several feet, with ` aariaa branches, the smaller ones often spinescent. 
Leaves from obovate and obtuse to ovate or lance inia and acute, narrowed 
‘ thin veined. Flowers 
white, numerous, in little loose racemes forming gate y a large terminal 
che m panicle, the ultimate branches usually M nie and the bracts 
very m r none. Pedicels 1 to 2 lines long. Bud s globul ar.’ Calyx- 
tube eng 1 Ce diameter, the lobes spreading to a diam ge of 3 lines. Petals 
not twice as long as the calyx-lobes. Capsule about 3 lines diameter.— 
eh Illustr. i Sp 
ustralia. Melville Island, Fraser. pene over tropical and Pig 
Afric - Asia, but amit cultivated under the name of Henné, for a yellow ; 
Pecially in Africa for dyeing the nails of ladies’ "nir It appears to be Geib in “Thin "x 
5. SONNERATIA, Linn. f. 
Calyx cvy the se broadly campanulate, adnate to the ovary at the 
base; lobes 4 to 8, lanceolate or triangular, the sinuses acute without acces- 
E or teeth. Petals 4 to 8, narrow, or none. Stamens numerous, 
inserted at the top of the calyx-tube, inflected in the bud. aye! enclosed 
in m reed adnate 2 à calyx-tube, depressed-globular, 1 0- to 15- 
curved.—Glabrous trees or shrubs. Leaves opposite, petiolate, rather thick. 
Se) large, liters or 3 together in the ee axils or at the ends of the 
Besides E "rg mo which is spread over E. India and the n and ex- 
Te contains one or two others from the 
aen acida, 1 inn. f.; DC. dé iii. 281. A tree. mi petíolat 
boul obovate” D méi 2 to 3 in. long. Calyx broad, ‘about 1 in. long, 
4c ed to below the middle into Pw 6 thick valvate lobes. Petals lin inear, 
rl exceeding GE calyx. Fruit (in Indian specimens) above 1} in 
e 
" N. Australia i requent in bogs on the N. and N.W, coasts, 4. Cunningham. The 
ba Leg E Ze lat with a single flower, but as KC as they go they are exactly 
€ some of gegen Sere nes. 
fo ns in Herb. R rown from Arnhem N. Bay have no petals in the expanded 
Eo wb ut yet they look more Co i acida than S. apetala, and the petals may have fallen away, 
Orver LI. ONAGRARIEJE. 
Calyx-tube adnate d above it; lobes 
, to the ovary, entirely so or produced a 
— ?t04, ra rarely 5 or 6, valvate in Yee de bud. Petals as many as ealyx-lobes, in- 
at th E ees enira five 
e top of the calyx tube, rarely wanting." alyx-tube, free 
d $ opening longitudinally. Ovary inferior, mo 
- divided into as many Lë ACER Ei pers 1-celled ; style filiform, or 
