LYTH RACEME 329 



LYTH RACEME 



Examples : 



LAGERSTRCEMIA INDICA, L., a shrub often grown 

 in gardens for its beautiful pink flowers. 



Leaves opposite, sessile or oblong, coriaceous, gla- 

 brous. Stipules very small. 



Flowers in axillary cymose panicles, bracts deqid- 

 uous, bracteoles smaller. Calyx-tube funnel-shaped, 

 with six triangular teeth. Corolla polypetalous. Petals 

 six, long-clawed crumpled in bud. Stamens many in- 

 serted near bottom of calyx-tube, filaments long curled 

 up in bud. Ovary three to six-celled with one long 

 bent style and capitate stigma. Fruit a loculicidal 

 capsule. Seeds winged. 



LAGERSTRCEMIA FLOS-REGIN^E, Retz., a fairly large 

 tree with large mauve or lilac-coloured flowers, two 

 inches or more in diameter in dense spikes, common 

 in India both wild and cultivated. 



It has angular branches and like L. INDICA oppo- 

 site glabrous leaves (but shortly petioled, not sessile). 

 The calyx -tube is ribbed and has six triangular spread- 

 ing lobes and is covered with dense white tomentum. 

 The petals being larger show their crumpled and wrin- 

 kled arrangement in the bud, better, and the fruit is an 

 inch or more in diameter, and is very hard ('woody'). 



LAWSONIA ALBA, Lamk., the Henna or Mendi. A 

 spiny shrub. 



Leaves opposite, entire, lanceolate, narrowed at the 

 base about an inch, less or more, in length. Flowers 

 small, i inch diameter, in large panicled cymes at the 

 ends of the branches, very fragrant. Calyx-tube short 



