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Hook. fil. Plor. Br. Ind. II, 577. L. Munchhausia, Lamk. Ency. Ill, 375 ; 

 III. t. 473 fig. 2. L. Beginse, Roxb. PI. Corom. I, 46, t. 65 ; Hort. Beng. 

 38; Hook. fil. Flor. Br. Ind. IT, 505; Blume Bijdr. 1127 ; DC. Prod r. 

 Ill, 93; W. & A. Prodr. Flor. Penins. Ind. 308; Blume Mus. Bot. 

 Lugd. Bat. II, 126 ; Miq. Flor. Ind. Bat. I, Pt. I, 623 and Suppl. 328. 

 L. speciosa, Pei-s. (1807} Ench. II, 72 (not of DC.) ; Koehne in Engl. 

 Bot. Jahrb. IV, 28 ; Koorders and Yaleton, Bijdr. I, 190, (excl. from 

 all where reduced the syn. L. macrocarpa, Wall,). 



Malacca, Singapore. Perak. Distrib. Java, British India. 



I have adopted Retz's name (published in 1789) for this plant, as it is pretty 

 nearly certain what Retz's plant was. Koehne, Koorders and Valeton and others 

 however adopt Persoon's name of L. speciosa on the ground that, although it dates 

 from only 1807, it preserves the specific name of Linnaeus (Munchhausenia speciosa 

 1770). But this procedure is rendered inadmissable when Linnaeus's description of 

 that plant is consulted, for he describes M. speciosa as a shrub, whereas this plant is a 

 large tree ; moreover the rest of his description would apply to various other species 

 of Lager strcemia ; the identity of M. speciosa, L. is thus quite uncertain. L. macro- 

 carpa of Wall. Cat. 2114, is a tree of about the size of L. Flos-Reginse and resem- 

 bles it in most respects, but differs (1) in having leaves of larger size (5-12 in, 

 long) more or less broadly elliptic, never oblong or elliptic-oblong, the apex often 

 sub-acute and the base broad or narrowed into a petiole twice as long as that of 

 L. Flos-Beginx ; (2) in the calyx being very slightly, if at all, furrowed and never 

 ribbed, and (3) in having a larger more globose capsule (1-1-35 in. long and nearly 

 as much in diam.). This tree has been in cultivation in the Bot. Garden, Calcutta, 

 side by side with L. Flos-Reginss for many years. It flowers earlier than the latter, 

 has pink (not lilac) petals, and much larger capsules. In my opinion it is a good 

 species and should not be merged in L. Flos-Reginae, It is found only in Burma 

 and Chittagong. Kurz, who was familiar with it in its wild state in Burma, con- 

 sidered it distinct and kept it as a species in his Forest Flora of British Burma. 



5. DuABANGA, Ham. 



Large glabrous trees with pendent quadi'angular branches. Leaves 

 opposite, distichous, large, short- petioled, elongated, acute, entire, cordate 

 or rounded at the base. Panicles large, terminal, with opposite branches ; 

 flowers large. Calyx-tube wide, adnate to the base of the ovary ; lobes 

 4-7, thick, valvate in the bud. Petals 4-7, clawed, obovate, crisped 

 and undulate, white. Stamens very many, inserted on a perigynous 

 ring. Ovary conical, 4-8-celled ; style bent, long ; stigma capitate, 

 4-8-lobed ; ovules very many, ascending, placentas covering nearly 

 the whole interior surface of the ovarian cells. Capsule sub-globose, 

 surrounded at the base by the thick spreading calyx, coriaceous, perfectly 

 or imperfectly 4-8-celled, 4r-8-valved. Seeds very numerous, minute, 

 ellipsoid, testa produced at both ends in two tails much exceeding the 

 length of the nucleus. Distrib. Species 2 ; Eastern Himalaya, Assam 

 and Malaya. 



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