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capsular, septifragally 4-valvate ; seeds co , oblong minute ; cotyledons 

 of straight rather fleshy embryo oblong, subauriculate at base; radicle 

 rather thick. — A glabrous shrub ; branches 4-gonal ; leaves opposite, 

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

 few cymose ; ' pedicels 2-bracteolate. (Mauritius. 2 ) 



12. Lagerstrœmia L. 3 — Flowers generally 6-merous ; 4 receptacle 

 campanulate or turbinate, smooth, silicate or angulate, sometimes 

 alate (Pterocalymna 5 ). Sepals 6, 3-angular, valvate; accessory teeth 

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

 tacle, ungniculafe, undulately crispate, contorto-corrugate in aestiva- 

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

 unequal ; c anthers introrse, versatile, 2-rimose. 7 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 3-6-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, petiolate, 

 entire penninerved ; flowers 8 in axillary and terminal racemes, often 

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

 bracteolate. 9 ( Warm Asia, trop. Oceania. 1 ") 



13. Duabanga Hamilt. 11 — Flowers (nearly of Lagerstrœmia) 4- 

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

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

 alternate and stamens co (of Lagerstrœmia). Germen adnate to 



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



2 Spec. 1. T. salicifolia. sér. 2, iii. 331) in L. indica, 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, à Buffon, iv. 439. — Endl. Gen. pore between each of the lines. 



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



Fmn. Nat. 355. — Hook. PI. Ind. ii. 575. — Velaga 9 Bracts formed of 2 small lateral glanduli- 



G-ïKTN. Fruct. ii. 245, t. 133. — Miiiichhausia L. form stipules (?). 



Mantiss. 153.— Banava Camell. (ex Ray). — "> Spec. 10-12. Kjîmpf. Amcen. S55 (Siii). — 



Adambea Lank. Diet. i. 39. — Arjuna 3os-ES,Asitit. Roxb. PI. Coram, t. 65, 66. — Wight, _Z7/. i. t. S6 ; 



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



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



4 More rarely 4-5-merous. Enum. PI. Zeyl. 122. — Walp. Rep. ii. 114 ; Ann. 

 = Turcz. Bull. Mosc. (1816) ii. 508. i. 295 ; iv. 689. 



6 Of which 5, 6, alternipetalous, sometimes ll Trans. Linn. Soc. xvii. 178. — Endl. Gen. n. 



much longer; the others shorter subregularly 616Ô. — B. H. Gen. 783, n. 25. — Hook. Fl. Ind. 



fasciculate before each petal and nearly equal ii. 57S. 

 to each other. 



