456 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



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

 capitately 4-8-lobed. Ovules in cells (complete or incomplete) co , 

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

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

 very close small, co -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 1 in terminal 

 ramose and cymiferous racemes. 3 {Trop. Asia and Oceania. 3 ) 



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

 nate or subhcmispherical. 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 co , inserted on thick placenta, co -seriate. 

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

 globose, finally unequally dividing. Seeds co , 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 offen spinescent ; 

 leaves opposite ovato-lanceolate entire; flowers 5 collected in axillary 

 corymbiform cymes. (Troji. Asia, north-east. Africa. 6 ) 



15. Pemphis Forst. 7 — Flowers 5-G-merous ; receptacle (nearly 

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

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

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



' White, large, " strong-smelling." 4 Small, whitish, strong-smelling. 



- A genus very near to Lagerstrœmia, and not 6 Spec. 1. L. iiicrmis L. Spec. 498. — Desf. Fl. 



unlike Somieratia, which Benth. and Hook. Atl. i. 325. — L. apinosa L. — L. alba Lamk. Diet. 



place near Dùdbanga. iii. 106. — Hiern. FI. Trop. Afr. ii. 483. — Wight, 



3 Spec. 2, 3. Hook. f. III. Ilim.il. PI. t. 11.— III. i. t. 87.— Boiss. Fl. Or.ii. 744.— GB.I6EB. Fl. 

 Min,Fl.Ind.-Bat.i.j>,l62i.—'WAi.v.Ann.iï.ôiO. Brit. W.-Ind. 271.— Miq. Fl. Ind.-Bat. i. p. i. 



4 Gen. 11.482.— J. Gen. SSI (Lausonia). -Lamk. 620.— Benth. Ft. Austral, iii. 300. 



Diet. iii. 106; Suppl. iii. 39; III. t. 296.— DC. 1 Char.Gen. 67, t. 34.— J. Gen. 331.— DC. Prod. 



Prodr. iii. 90.— Spach, Suit, à Buffon, iv. 43.Ï. — iii. 89. — Spach, Suit, à Buffon, iv. 428.— Enul. 



Kndl. Gen. n. 6109.— 15. H. Gen. 782, n. 19.— H. Gen. n. 6148.— B. H. Gen. 780, t. IS.— Baxer, 



Bn. Payer Fam. Nat.3ô4.—BLooK.Fl.Ind.ii. 673. Fl. Matait. 101.— Hook. VI. Ind. ii. 672.— 



Alcanna (.I.lktn. Fruct. ii. 133, t. 110. Maclellandia Wight, lean. t. 1990. 



