456 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



bottom of receptacle, 4-8-locular ; style elongate, at apex stigmatose 

 capitately 4-8-lobe(i. Ovules in cells (complete or incomplete) oo , 

 ascending, curved. Fruit capsular, seated in thick cupule of recep- 

 tacle, coriaceous or crustaceous, loculicidally 4-8-valved. Seeds 

 very close small, oo -seriate, scobiform, falcate, narrow winged above ; 

 cotyledons of straight exalbuminous embryo oblong (** green 

 spotted ") ; radicle terete. — Tall trees ; ramules 4-gonal ; leaves 

 opposite subsessile, cordate at base, nervose; flowers ^ in terminal 

 ramose and cymiferous racemes.^ {Trop, Asia and Oceania.^) 



14. Lawsonia L.^ — Flowers 4-merous ; receptacle shortly turbi- 

 nate or subhemispherical. Sepals 4, 3 -angular, valvate ; accessory 

 teeth (or scarcely perceptible). Petals 4, alternate, exterior to disk, 

 corrugately imbricate. Disk lining receptacle and unequally crenate 

 at margin ; 4 crenatures oftener larger, interior to base of petals and 

 there rather prominent. Stamens 8, in pairs opposite to sepals ; fila- 

 ments thick subulate corrugately plicate, finally exserted ; anthers 

 ellipsoid, 2-rimose. Germen subglobose free ; cells 4, oppositipeta- 

 lous; style slender flexuose, finally exserted, at apex stigmatose 

 capitate. Ovules in cells oo , inserted on thick placenta, go -seriate. 

 Fruit capsular pea-shaped, stipate at base with receptacle and calyx, 

 globose, finally unequally dividing. Seeds oo , obcuneate, unequally 

 4-gonal ; coats externally thick spongy, internally hard ; cotyledons 

 of fleshy embryo suborbicular flat ; radicle subcylindrical often accum- 

 bent. — A glabrous shrub; branches unarmed or often spinescent; 

 leaves opposite ovato-lanceolate entire; flowers^ collected in axillary 

 corymbiform cymes. {Trop. Asia^ north-east. Africa.^) 



15. Pemphis Forst.'' — Flowers 5-6-merous; receptacle (nearly 

 of Grislea) campanulate-turbinate, 12-costate. Sepals 3-angular; 

 accessory teeth same in number, narrow. Petals 5, 6. Stamens 10- 

 12, 2 -seriate. Germen inserted at bottom of receptacle, shortly 



* White, large, " strong-smelling." & Small, wliitish, strong- smelling. 



2 A genus very near to Lagerstrcemia, and not ^ Spec. 1. Z. inermis L. Spec. 498. — Desf. Fl. 

 unlike Somieratia, which Bemth. and Hook. Atl. i. ^25. — Z. spmosa Ti.—Z. alda JjAfiK. Diet. 

 place near Duabanga. iii, 106. — Hiern. Fl. Trop. Aft: ii. 483. — Wight, 



3 Spec. 2, 3. Hook. f. III. Himal. PI. t. 11.— HI. i. t. 87.— Boiss. Fl. Or. ii. 744.— Gkiseb. Fl. 

 Um.Fl.Ind.-£at.lj).i.62i.—Wxhv.An)i.u.6iO. Brit. W.-Ind. 271.— Miq. Fl. Ind.-Bat. i. p. i. 



^ Gen. n.482. — J. Gen. 2,Z\{Lausonia). — Lamk. 620.— Benth. Fl. Atcstral. iii. 300. 



Diet. iii. 106 ; Suppl. iii. 39 ; III. t. 296.— DC. ' Char. Gen. 67, t. 34.— J. Gen. 331.— DC. Prod. 



Prodr. iii. 90.— Spach, Stdt. a Buffon, iv. 43-5.— iii. 89.— Spach, Suit, a Buffon, iv. 428.— Exdl. 



Endl. Gen. n. 6159.— B. H. Gen. 782, n. 19.— H. Gen. n. 6148.— B. H. Gen. 780, t. 15.— Bakek, 



^^.PayerFam.l^at.Zo\.—)AQOY..FLInd.\\.bl7,. Fl. Maurit. 101.— Hook. Fl. Iml. ii. 572.— 



Alcanna G^eetn. Fruct. ii. 133, t. 110. Maclellandia Wight, Icon. t. 1996. 



