Pu)iica.~\ LXI. LYTHRACEjE. (C. B. Clarke.) 581 



1. P. G-ranatum, Linn. Sp. PI. 676; DC. Prodr. iii. 3; Eoxb. Hort. 

 Beng. 38; Fl. 2nd. ii. 409; Watt. Cat. 3659 ; W. $ A. Prodr. 327; Wight 

 III. t. 97 ; Griff. Ic. PL Asiat. t. 634 ; Boiss. Fl. Orient, ii. 737 ; Brand. For. 

 FL 241 ; Kurz For. FL i. 528. P. nana, Linn. ; Bot. Mag. 634. 



Cultivated throughout INDIA ; probably wild in the north-west. DISTRIB. Wild 

 in Cabul and Persia ; cultivated throughout the warmer regions of the globe. 



Leaves commonly 2 by ^-^ in., narrower at both ends especially at the base, intra- 

 marginal nerve distinct or obscure. Flowering calyx about 1 in., mouth ^ in. broad. 

 Petals ^ in. or more. Fruit often 2 in. diam., containing much red juice round the 

 seeds. (The Pomegranate.') 



11. AXXHANDRA, Thivaites. 



Trees, glabrous or nearly so, branches quadrangular or terete. Leaves opposite, 

 petioled, coriaceous, entire, acuminate, finely nerved beneath with an intramar- 

 ginal nerve. Racemes simple, axillary, erect, the 3-5 terminal panicled ; 

 flowers small, pedicels short ; bracteoles 3 at the base of each pedicel, minute, 

 linear. Calyx superior, 5-lobed. Petals 5, small, triangular, caducous, inserted 

 at the top of the calyx- tube. Stamens 10, in two whorls, 5 alternating with 

 the petals and 5 others inserted just below ; connective large ; anthers small, 

 subterminal. Ovary inferior, 5-6-celled ; style straight, stigma simple ; ovules 

 in each cell 1-2, erect. Capsule half-superior, woody, ellipsoid, below adnate 

 to the calyx-tube, above loculicidally 3-4 (rarely 5-6-) valved. Seeds erect, 

 oblong, compressed, produced upwards into a wing ; cotyledons flat. DISTRIB. 

 Species 4-5 from Ceylon, Malacca and Borneo. 



A. ED-AXINANDRA. Petals convolute. Ovule 1 in each cell. 



1. A. zeylanica, Thwaites in Hook. Keiv Journ. vi. 66; branchlets 

 acutely quadrangular, leaves rounded at the base, petiole about - in., calyx- 

 tube without ribs, style very short. Bedd. FL Sylv. t. 207. 



CEYLON; Ambagamowa district, alt. 1500'ft. ; Thwaites. 



A large tree, 50-60 ft. (Thwaites). Leaves 4 by 2 in., gradually or suddenly 

 acuminate. Racemes 2 in. ; pedicels less thau in., hardly lengthened in fruit. 

 Calyx glabrous or microscopically puberulous. Petals falling off in a cap before 

 expansion (Thwaites). Capsule 1 by f in. ; valves usually 3, very thick, woody. 



B. NAXIANDRA, Baillon. Petals induplicate-valvate. Ovules 2 in each cell. 



2. A . Blaing-ayi, C. B. Clarke ; branchlets terete, leaves narrowed at 

 the base, petiole often in., calyx-tube at the time of flowering 10-ribbed, style 

 long (exserted portion longer than the whole flower). 



MALACCA ; Maingay No. 654-2. 



Leaves 4 l>y 2 in., gradually or suddenly acuminate. Racemes 2 in., more panicled 

 than in A. zeylanica, panicle-branches quadrangular. Calyx and pedicel minutely 

 puberulous, larger than in A. zeylanica. Petals expanding but caducous. Fruit not 

 seen. -Closely allied to A. Beccariana, Baill. in Bull. Soc. Linn. Paris 1877, No. 16, 

 127, which has rather slenderer racemes and smaller flowers, the calyx hardly ribbed 

 at the time of flower. 



GENUS IMPERFECTLY KNOWN. 



DICHOTOMANTHES, Kurz in Seemann Journ. Bot. ix. 194, is a tree imperfectly known 

 possibly Lythraceous, collected by Dr. John Anderson in Yunan, as yet not found 

 within the limits prescribed for the Flora of British India. 



