512 FLORA OF MADRAS. , IPemphb. 



silky pubescent small leaves under T5 in. long and pink 

 flowers. 



6. Lagerstroemia, Linn. 



Trees or shrubs. Leaves opposite, distichous or the upper- 

 most alternate, entire, petiolate, often glaucous beneath ; stipules 

 2, deciduous. Flowers often large and showy, in axillaryracem.es 

 often forming terminal usually trichotomous panicles ; bracts 2, 

 at the apex of the peduncles ; bracteoles 2, on the pedicels. Calyx- 

 tube campanulate, coriaceous, smooth or ribbed ; lobes 6, valvate. 

 Petals 6, sometimes more, inserted on the top of the calyx-tube, 

 clawed, the blade wrinkled, the margins crispate. Stamens 

 numerous, inserted near the base of the calyx-tube ; filaments 

 long, exserted. Ovary sessile, 3-6-celled ; ovules many, ascend- 

 ing, on axile placentas ; style long, curved ; stigma capitate. 

 Fruit an ellipsoid woody loculicidal capsule, 3-6-valved. Seeds 

 numerous, flat, erect, falcately winged at the apex, testa hard ; 

 cotyledons orbicular, thin, convolute, 



Ovary glabrous : 



Calyx-tube smooth without : 



Petals white, rather small, shortly clawed : 



Calyx-tube with a ring inside the lobes appressed to the cap- 

 sule in fruit ; leaves greyish and glabrous or shortly pubescent 



beneath, rounded at base 1. parviflora. 



Calyx-tube without a ring; leaves narrowed at base : 



Leaves glabrous or downy and bluish-white beneath up to 

 4 in. long ; flowers scarcely '25 in. broad ; calyx lobes reflexed 



in fruit 2. lanceolata. 



Leaves ferruginous-villous beneath, up to 6 in. long ; flowers 



more than '25 in. broad , 3. Thomsonii f 



Petals variously coloured from white to crimson ; leaves green 



beneath indica. 



Calyx-tube ribbed without ; petals large, mauve ; leaves large, up 



to 8 in. long, green beneath 4. Flos-Reginae. 



Ovary densely villous ; calyx-tube not ribbed, densely fulvous tomen- 

 tose as is the under surface of the leaves 5. Rottleri. 



1. LAGERSTROEMIA PARVIFLORA, Roxb. Cor. PL t. 66 ; F. B. I. 

 ii. 575 ; W. & A. 308 ; Wt. Ic. t. 69 ; Bedd. Fl. t. 31. 

 N. Circars and Deccan as far south as the N". Nilgiris, in 

 deciduous forest. 



