Lagerstreemia. | LYTHRACEA. 503 
- Yeelled capsule, tipped by the persistent style, opening at the top 
across the septum so as to split the style; pedicel in fruit deflexed. 
Seeds many, ellipsoid ; testa produced at each end. 
RYPTERONIA PANICULATA Bl. C. glabra F. B. I. ii. 574, 
Chittagong. 
A tall, erect tree. 
347. Lagerstreemia Linn. 
4 Trees or shrubs ; leaves hse distichous, or the uppermost 
2 alternate, entire, pune or ovate. Flowers showy, often large, in 
d ter 
tube, with distinct be wrinkled, and with sepa erose, Or 
4 fimbriate margins. 2ens numerous, inserted n base of 
a ealyx-tube; filaments vii exserted. Carpels 3-6, ae in a 
and as many valves. Seeds numerous, viel caieae 
erect, winged from their apex. 
Calyx-tube smooth, rounded, glabro 
Leaves Sarees eneath ; flowers ATE -5 in. across; trees: 
Leaves 2-3-5 in. long ; capsule 1 in. long or JeSS .+.seseeeee 
aces 4-5 in, long; capsule 1°5 in. long or mo 
sar diatd var, majuscula. 
Leaves green beneath; flowers 1:5 in. across or larger; ® shrub- 
pare arvifior al. 
indica. 
Calyx-tube 12-14. en vad eroored, covered with a harsh grey pate 
fence ; flowers 2:5 in. across; tree: 
Leaves long, Seeaclate: not vitted al little reticulated above 
Flos- Regine. 
het broad, elliptic, obtuse or short cuspidate; distinetly pitted in 
€ recesses between the pronounced reticulations above-- -macrocarpa- 
885. Lagersrramra parvirtora Roxb.; F. 1. ii. 5095 F. B. 1, 
ii. 575 5B) : 
W. Bengal ; aaebiees Orissa, 
