\. Casey a.] 44. MYRTACE^i. [ 1. Woodpobdii. 



L. 6-15" long, glabrous, slightly crenate-denticulate, sec. n. 10-12 

 prs. not very strong. Fls. 3'' with large bracts and hraoteoles, sessile or 

 scarcely pedicelled. Sep. 4 orate obtuse. Pet. If" white. Fil. pink, 

 very numerous, the middle ones alone fertile. Ovary 4-celled. Ovules 

 numerous. Seeds in a fleshy pulp. 



The hark gives a fibre suitable for rough ropes. Campbell says that 

 the fruit is eaten. The root is used to kill fish in Gangpur. 



Fam. 45. LYTHRACE.E. 



Trees, shrubs or herbs with often 4- angled branches. L, 

 usually opposite and entire, exstipulate. Fls. 2-sexual, 

 regular or zygomorphous. Sepals 3-6 with sometimes 

 intermediate smaller ones, valvate. Petals perigynous as 

 many as the sepals, rarely 0. St. definite or indefinite, nearly 

 hypogynous or perigynous (epigynous in Punica). Ovary 

 2-6-ceiled. Stigma capitate. Ovules very many axile (or 

 parietal in Punica). Fruit coriaceous or membranous, 

 dehiscent or not. Seeds many, albumen 0. 



Punica is better placed, as is done by Engler, in a separate family. 



A. Trees or shrubs. 



Fls. zygomorphous with declinate stamens . . 1. Woadfordia. 



Fls. regular. 



Petals 5-8, rarely 4. Capsule 3-6-valved . . 2. Lagerstrcemia. 



Petals 4. Capsule irregularly breaking up _ . 3. Lawsonia. 

 Ovary completely adnate to the hypanthium, 



cells 1-3-seriate „ . 4. Punica. 



B. Herbs of wet ground with minute flowers . . 5. Ammannia. 



1. Woodfordia, Salisb. 



1. W. floriblinda, Salisb. Icha : K. ; Ichak , J S. ; Phul* 

 dawai, Dhai-phul, Kharw. ; Dadki, Bhumij. 



A bushy shrub 4-6 ft. with simple sessile or sub-sessile 

 linear- lanceolate distichous acuminate leaves 2^-4" loDg, silvery 

 finely pubescent and gland-dotted beneath, and scarlet showy 

 tubular flowers |-J* long in fascicled cymes, axillary and 

 from the old wood. 



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