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Woodfordia.) LYTHRARIER. 517 
inferior, 2-6- or rarely by abortion of the partitions 1-celled, with 
usually numerous ovules attached to the axis or —. rarely parietal 
style simple, with a capitate or rarely 2-lobed stigma. Fruit a 
sule, variously dehiscing, enclosed in or iat by the pobelitont 
cal. ] 
yx. umen none. Embryo straight ; cotyledons oblong or 
nee —Herbs, shrubs, or trees, with opposite, srr 
or oe sri eaed simple leaves. ee a none. Flowers 
valuable. Henna, a reddish orange dye, i is the peter of Tease 
and a similar dye is obtained from the flowers of Woodfordia. 
Pomegranates are the only edible fruits in this family. Thirty-one 
species occur in Burma. 
* Ovary ‘free, su 
x — tenth blackish. dotted ; calyx slightly curved; 
« Woodfordia, 
xx Leave without or with pellucid dots ‘beneath, Calyx 
a 
Os sas many or twice as many as calyx-lobes. 
Calyx 12-toothed ; ‘Potala 63 sakilees 12; capsule 1-celled, trans. 
verse. circumsciss 
a 4. perce 5 3 petals 4; stamens 8; capsule 4. celled, imregularly 
Galys 4 tor S-clett 5 ; petals none ; stamens 4 or; ; ‘capsule 2-eelled 
ayes Stamens indefinite, in 1 or 2 or more rows. 
t Seeds not imbedded i began a 
Pemphis, 
ia. 
Stamens in 2 or 
e, expand 
‘pand 
in a . Lagerstremia. 
Stamens in a single row ; cet "4-8-celled ; ; seeds minute, ‘scobi- 
form, narrowly winged at the a margin . - Duabanga. 
— imbedded in pulp ; berry 10- . 
e 
* > Ovary adnate to the calye, inferior, many celled, the 
cells yi deer Pe superposed ; —— 
many ro 3 seeds pulp py . . ° . "Petia: 
WOODFORDIA, Salish. 
Calyx coloured, tubular, slightly curved with an oblique mouth, 
shortly 6-lobed, the lobes alternating with as many minute acces. 
sory teeth. Petals 6, small, or none. Stamens 12, inserted at the 
a thick axile —: style fiiform, with a punctiform rm stigma, 
Capsule enclosed in the calyx, compressed, 2-celled, loculicidally 2- 
ved. Seeds ana minute, somewhat compressed-obeuneate, 
asia “me —Shrubs or small trees, with opposite black-dotted | 
Flowers crimson, usually cymose-panicled ; pedicels 2- _ 
rsh at the base, 
