Dualanga.'] LXI. LYTHRACEJ:. (C. B. Clarke.) 579 



bent, long, stigma capitate 4-8-lobed ; ovules very many, ascending, placentas 

 covering nearly the whole interior surface of the ovary-cells. Capsule globose 

 on the thick spreading calyx, coriaceous, perfectly or imperfectly 4-8-celled, 

 4-8-valved. Seeds innumerable, minute, ellipsoid, testa produced at both ends 

 in two tails much exceeding the length of the nucleus. DISTRIB. Species 2, 

 extending from Nipal south-eastwards to the Philippines and Borneo. 



I/ ID. sonneratioid.es, Ham. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xvii. 178 ; flowering 

 calyx nearly 1 in. wide at the base, petals 4-7 nearly 1 in., capsule 4-8- 

 valved. Hook. f. Ill Him. PI. t. 11 ; Kurz For. Fl. i. 525. Lagerstrcernia 

 grandiflora, Roxb. Hort. Beng. 38 ; FL Ind. ii. 503 ; DC. Prodr. iii. 93; Watt. % 

 Cat. 2111 ; Blume Mus. Sot. i. 109. Leptospartion grandiflorum, Griff". Ic. PI.' 

 Asiat. t. 591. 



NIPAL to MARTABAN; alt. 500-3000 ft.; common in the SIKKIM and BHOTAN 

 TEBAI. 



Tree attaining 100 ft. Leaves commonly 10 by 3^ in; petiole usually - in. 

 D. moluccana differs by the calyx in flower much narrower at base, the petals 4 smaller, 

 the capsule 4-valved : but agrees closely in habit. 



9. SONNSRATIA, Linn.f. 



Trees, growing near the sea, glabrous. Leaves opposite, petioled, coriaceous, 

 entire. Flowers without bracts, large, three together at the summits of the 

 branches, or axillary solitary. Calyx thick, coriaceous ; lobes 4-8, lanceolate, 

 valvate. Petals or as many as the calyx-lobes and linear-oblong. Stamens 

 very many, inserted in a circular band on the calyx-tube. Ovary nearly free, or 

 adnate at the base to the calyx-tube, many-celled ; style long, stigma capitate ; 

 ovules very many, ascending, placentas axile. Berry "subglobose, supported by 

 the persistent calyx, 10-15-celled. Seeds very many, small, curved, angular; 

 cotyledons convolute. DISTRIB. Species 4-5 on the tropical sea-shores of the 

 Eastern hemisphere. 



t Stigma very large, umbrella-shaped. 



1. S. apetala, Ham. in Syme Emb. Ava iii. 313, t. 25 ; leaves narrow- 

 oblong, calyx-lobes 4, petals 0, stigma more than in. broad, capsule - f in. 

 broad globo/e. DC. Prodr. iii. 231 ; Roxb. Hort. Beng. 38 ; Fl. Ind. ii. 506 ; 

 Roth Nov. Sp. 233 ; Wall. Cat. 3642 ; W. $ A. Prodr. 327 ; Griff. NotuL iv. 

 650 ; Kurz For. FL i. 527. 



Common in the SOONDKRBTJN. DECCAN PENINSULA as far as the Concan, Law. 

 TRANSGANGETIC PENINSULA to Moulmein, Falconer. 



Tree attaining 40 ft., growing in mangrove swamps flooded by the tide. Leaves 

 3-4 by l-l in., always narrow, attenuated at the base ; petiole in. Calyx in 

 flower f in., style included or scarcely exsert. Capsule broader than high, convex at 

 the top, walls not thickened. 



ft Stigma capitate, not very large. 



2. S. acida, Linn. f. Suppl. 252; leaves oblong or narrowly obovate- 

 elliptic, calyx-lobes 6, petals 6 linear-oblong dark-red, capsule globose much de- 

 pressed often 2 in. broad. Roxb. Hort. Beng. 38 ; FL Ind. ii. 506 ; Roth Nov. 

 Sp. 233 ; DC. Prodr. iii. 231 ; Watt. Cat. 3641 ; W. # A. Prodr. 327 ; Wight 

 Ic. t. 340 ; Griff. Notul. iv. 652 ; Blume Mus. Bot. i. 336 ; Miq. FL Ind. Bat. i. 

 pt. i. 496 ; Dalz. $ Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 98 ; Brand. For. Fl. 242 ; Kurz For. Fl. 



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