Pempliis.'] LYTHRACEAE. 511 



4. Woodfordia, Salisb. 



Shrubs, often arborescent, the branches terete or the younger 

 tetragonous. Leaves opposite, entire, subcoriaceous, with black 

 glandular dots on the under surface. Flowers in short axillary 

 racemes, rarely solitary ; bracteoles 2. Calyx-tube long, slightly 

 curved, contracted above, oblique near the mouth. ; lobes 6, short, 

 with short accessory appendages. Petals 6, very small. Stamens 

 12, inserted near the bottom of the calyx-tube, usually much 

 exserted, the alternate ones longer; filaments filiform. Ovary 

 sessile, 2-celled ; ovules very many on axile placentas; style long, 

 filiform ; stigma minute. Fruit an ellipsoid, membranous capsule 

 included in the calyx, the tube of which is sometimes split by it. 

 Seeds many, cuneate, smooth. 



WOODFORDIA FRTJTICOSA, Kurz. W.floribunda, Salisb. ; F. B. I. 

 ii. 572. Grislea tomentosa, Roxb. Cor. PL t. 31 ; W. & A. 308. 

 N. Circars and Deccan, as far south as the hills of Kurnool, 

 in deciduous forests, on dry hill sides and rocky places ; 

 W. Coast, in S. Canara (Wight). 



A large deciduous shrub with scarlet flowers and lanceolate 

 caudate leaves, whitish beneath. Bark thin, grey; wood 

 reddish-white and hard. The flowers give a red dye. Yern. 

 .HYwd. Dawi; Ur. Jatiko ; Tel. Jargi, Seringi. 



5. Pemphis, Forst. 







Shrubs or small trees. Leaves opposite, thick and fleshy, 

 entire. Flowers solitary, axillary, pedunculate; bracteoles 2. 

 C?^-tube campanulate, coriaceous, ribbed ; lobes 6, short, with 

 6 shorter appendages. Petals 6, inserted at the top of the 

 calyx-tube, wrinkled. Stamens 12 (or 18), inserted in 2 rows 

 on the calyx-tube. Ovary free, subsessile, 3-celled at the base ; 

 ovules many; style long; stigma capitate. Fruit a coriaceous 

 capsule, nearly globose, circumsciss. Seeds numerous, com- 

 pressed-angular, cuneate, margined. 



PEMPHIS ACIDULA, Forst.; F. B. I. ii. 573; W. & A. 307. 

 Madellondia Griffithiana, Wt, Ic. t. 1996. 



Sea coast and tidal backwaters in Malabar, Travancore and 



Tinnevelly. 



A large branching evergreen shrub or small tree with grey- 



