Order 52. Lythracem. 121 



numerous, small white in panicles, calyx lobes and petals 

 triangular; capsule small oblong. Ndneh, bondhdre, kdkria. 



A very pretty tree both as to flowers and foliage, which appear 

 together. The wood is called benteak. 

 Common in the Konkan and Ghauts. 



2. L. lanceolata. Leaves smooth lanceolate, flowers pure 

 white in axillary racemes, calyx and pedicels covered with 

 dense grey down, capsule small oval. Bondar, boddga, sukutya, 



Very like the last, bnt more elegant and beautiful, the flowers 

 larger, the capsule smaller. The tree may be seen from a distance 

 when quite covered with flowers, 



" As white as Mount Soracte, 



When winter nights are long." Macaulay. 



It is common on the Ghauts and in some parts of the Konkan. 



3. L. flosregince. Leaves lanceolate ovate smooth, flowers 

 large and very handsome, purple or mauve, in large and 

 numerous panicles, calyx downy furrowed, fruit oval, 6-lobed. 

 Tdman. 



This is a very noticeable tree from the mass of colour it often 

 gives, but not so elegant as the last. It is tolerably common in the 

 Konkan. H. has a variety with leaves 15 inches long. 



L. Indica, China mendi, is a pretty shrub with bright pink flowers, 

 common in gardens ; originally from China (.ff.). 



5. SONNERATIA. 



1. 8. apetala. A pretty slender tree with thick veinless oval 

 oblong leaves and white flowers, calyx 4-lobed thick and fleshy, 

 stigma remarkably large, umbrella-shaped, fruit round with short 

 hard point. Amthi. 



Not in D. or (?., but common in the salt marshes of the S. Konkan, 

 growing with the mangroves. 



2. S. acida. A small tree, leaves opposite entire, thick and 

 veinless oval, flowers large, solitary, red, fruit nearly round, 

 slightly flattenened, seated in the hardened calyx, much larger 

 than that of the last. Tivar. 



Common in salt marshes. Very different from the last. H. has 

 S. Grijfithii, ".probably an apetalous form of this," which I believe I 

 had, but have lost my note of it. 



To this tribe also belongs^ (bnt put by Oliver and others in 

 Myrtaceae) Punica granatum, Andr, ddlimb, the pomegranate, wild in 

 Afghanistan and Beluchistan. 



