LYTHRARIACEM, 455 



ipsular, septifragally 4-valvate; seeds oo , oblong minute ; cotyledons 

 straight rather fleshy embryo oblong, subauriculate at base; radicle 



ither thick. — A glabrous shrub ; brauch.es 4-gonal ; leaves opposite, 



longate, entire, shortly petiolate; flowers (rather large) axillary 

 few cymose ; * pedicels 2-bracteolate. (Mauritius.^) 



12. Lagerstroemia L.^ — Flowers generally 6-merous;* receptacle 

 campanulate or turbinate, smooth, sulcate or angulate, sometimes 

 alate [Pterocalymna^). Sepals 6, 3-angular, valvate; accessory teeth 

 same in number small (or 0). Petals 6, inserted in throat of recep- 

 tacle, unguiculate, undulately crispate, contorto-corrugate in sestiva- 

 tion. Stamens oo , interior to petals ; filaments free, sometimes very 

 unequal f anthers introrse, versatile, 2-rimose.^ Germen free sessile 

 at bottom of receptacle ; cells 3-6, alternipetalous ; style slender 

 flexuose, at apex stigmatose capitellate. Ovules oo , inserted in in- 

 ternal angle of cells, often ascending. Fruit capsular, girt at base 

 with receptacle, thick coriaceous, loculicidally 8-6-valvate ; valves 

 septiferous in the middle. Seeds oo , sometimes few, compressed, 

 alate above ; cotyledons of exalbuminous embryo straight, curved or 

 contortuplicate; radicle cylindrical, often er inferior. — Trees or shrubs; 

 ramules 4-gonal ; leaves opposite or sometimes alternate, pejtiolate, 

 entire penninerved ; flowers^ in axillary and terminal racemes, often 

 full, much branched, often 3-chotomous cymiferous, bracteate and 2- 

 bracteolate.^ ( Warm Asia^ trop. Oceania?^) 



13. Duabanga Hamilt.^^ — Flowers (nearlj of Lagerstroemia) 4- 

 8-merous ; receptacle widely cupular-turbinate. Sepals 4-8, margi- 

 nally inserted, thick, 3 -angular, valvate. Petals same in number 

 alternate and stamens go (of Lagerstroemia). Germen adnate to 



1 Spuriously umbellate. 7 Pollen spherical (ex H. Mohl, Ann. Sc. Nat. 



2 Spec. 1. T. salicifolia. ser. 2, iii. 331) in L. irtdica, and marked with 3 



3 Gen. n. 667. — J. Gen. 331. — DC. Prodr. iii. connivent lines at each pole, with an areolate 

 93. — Spach, Suit, a Buffon, iv. 439. — Endl. Gen. pore between each of the lines. 



n, 6164. — B. H. Gen. 783, n. 24. — H. Bn. Payer ^ Often large, showy, pink or white. 



Fam. Nat. 355. — Hoo^s.. Fl. Ind. ii. 575. — Velaga ^ Bracts formed of 2 small lateral glanduli- 



G^RTN. Fruct. ii. 245, t. 133. — Miinchhausia L. form stipules (?). 



Mantiss. 153. — Banava Camell. (ex Ray). — ^" Spec. 10-12. Kjempf. Amcen. 855 {Sibi). — 



Adambea Lamk. Bid. i. 39. — Arjuna Jon-E8,Asiat. Eoxb. PI. Coram, t. 65, 66. — Wight, III. i. t. 86 ; 



Res. iv. 301 (ex Roxb.). —i^aiioa DC. Prodr. iii. Icon. t. 69, 109, 413.— Bl. Mus. Lugd.-Bat. ii. t. 



88. 41, 42.— Mia. Fl. Ind.-Bat. i. p. i. 620.— Thw. 



" More rarely 4-5-merou3. Enum. PL Zeyl. 122.— Walp. Rep. ii. 114 ; Ann. 



5 TuRCz. Bull. Mosc. (1846) ii. 508. i. 295 ; iv. 689. 



^ Of which 5, 6, alternipetalous, sometimes ^^ Trans. Linn. SocxyW. 178. — Endl. G^en. n. 



much longer ; the others shorter suhregularly 6165. — B. H. Gen. 783, n. 25.— Hook. Fl. Ind. 



fasciculate before each petal and nearly equal ii. 678. 

 to each other. 



