Lagerstrcemia.] LXI. LYTHRACE^;. (C. B. Clarke.) 577 



7. Xi. Flos-Reg-inae, Retz Obs. v. p. 25 ; petiole distinct usually in., 

 calyx covered with hard white (sometimes ferruginous) tomentum, ribs "12- 14- 

 flat or round not acute on the back, apex of the ovary glabrous. Kurz For. 

 FL i. 524. L. Reginse, Roxb. Cor. PL t. 65 ; Hort. Benq. 38 ; Fl. Ind. ii. 505 ; 

 DC. Prodr. iii. 93; Wall. Cat. 2114; W. $ A. Prodr. ''308 -, Wight Ic. t. 413; 

 Blume Mm. Hot. ii. t. 41 ; Miq. Fl Ind. Sat. i. pt. i. 623 ; Be'dd. FL Sylv. t. 

 29 ; Dais. $ Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 98 : Brand. For. FL 240. L. macrocarpa, Wall. 

 Cat. 2114. Adambea glabra, Lamk. Diet. SQ.RJieede Hort. Mai. iv. t. 20, 21. 



From ASSAM to MALACCA, abiindant. Hills of the DECCAN PE'KINSUIA, common ; 

 and in CEYLON. In North- West India only cultivated?. DISTRIB. Malaya and China, 

 m many cases perhaps cultivated. 



A tree, reaching 50-60 ft., sometimes when old having on its trunk and larger 

 branches a few strong straight spines 1-3 in. (See Ham. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xvii. 

 177.) Leaves 4-8 in., from broad-elliptic obtuse to long-lanceolate. Panicle large, 

 lower branches often 6 in., curved, ascending, flowers scattered. Petals commonly 

 1 in. (sometimes more), mauve, margins erose-undulate, hardly fimbriate. Calyx in 

 fruit thickened, woody ; lobes triangular spreading. Fruit large, sometimes reachjng 

 l^in. by 1 in. (Wallich reduced his L. macrocarpa number 913 to L. Flos-Regime, 

 and also sank his herbarium names L. oblonga and L. glaucescens.} 



VAB. angusta, Wall. Cat. 2113 ; leaves 15 (excl. potiole) by 6 in. ; fruit 1| in., 

 more acute at the apex. Irrowaddy, Wallich. Rangoon ; McClelland. This may 

 possibly be the plant which Mr. Kurz (For. Fl. i. 524) means to preserve as the 

 species L. macrocarpa. Not merely the leaves on young plants but the leaves on 

 Wallich's specimens near the panicle are very large. 



8. Xi. hypoleuca, Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. 1872, pt. ii. 307 ; For. Fl. i. 

 523 ; leaves shortly petioled sometimes glaucous white beneath, calyx covered 

 with hard white tomentum, ribs 12 acute. 



AXDAMANS, Kurz. 



Tree 60-70 ft. Leaves 6-8 in., from ovate to ovate-lanceolate, acuminate or 

 scarcely acute, attenuate or obtuse at the base. Panicle large, 1 ft. long, narrow- 

 elongate, white, puberuloiis. Petals % in., oblong, lilac, undulate on the margin 

 (Kurz}. Capsule f in. (Kurz\ oblong, mucronate, woody. Calyx much more acutely 

 ribbed than that of L. Flos-Regince, but the teeth of the alternate ribs are very ob- 

 scurely excurrent in Mr. Kurz's spocimeus. 



9. Xi. fioribunda, Jack in Mai. Misc. i. 38 ; petiole very short, calyx 

 covered with ferruginous stellate woolly tomentum with 12 acute ribs, apex of 

 hairy ovary. Da Prodr. iii. 93 ; Wall. Cat. 2115 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. i. pt, i. 

 623 (not Blume Mus. Bat. ii. t. 41) ; Griff. Not id. iv. 509 ; Kurz For. Fl. i. 

 522. 



BURMA to SINGAPORE ; frequent. DISTRTB. Siam, Malaya, China. 



Tree 30 ft. Leaves 5-7 in., oblong, acute, subsessile, rounded at the base. Pa- 

 nicle large, lower branches often 6 in., ascending, curved, with rich brown stellate 

 woolly tomentum. Calyx nearly equally 12-ribbed accessory teeth obsolete or obscure. 

 Petals smaller than in L. Flos-Reyincs, at first of a more rosy colour but withering to 

 mauve-purple. Fruit ^ by ^ in.; calyx-teeth spreading, small, not woody. 



VAR. cuspidata, Wall. Cat. 2116 (sp.) ; accessory teeth of the calyx in the bud pro- 

 minent appearing as 6 cusps at the summits of the alternate ribs. Tavoy, Amherst, 

 Wallich, who marks the species as L. floribundce prox. It differs from the type in no 

 point except the cusps mentioned. 



10. Xi. hexaptera, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. i. pt. i. 623 ; calyx ^gey puber- 

 ulous, teeth 6-9, ribs 6-9 almost winged alternale with the teeth^ j^Jy 



in fruit spreading woody. 



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