518 LYTHRARIER. { Pemphis. 
1. W. fruticosa, ( 
14,f.4; W. floribunda, Salish. 3; Brand. For. Fl. 238).—A leaf-shed- 
dotted and greyish or whitish velvety or shortly tomentose ; flowers 
nearly 3 an in. long, bright crimson, forming axillary short- 
) 
puberulous, tapering into a rather slender puberulous pedicel ; petals 
i the calyx, 
B.—Frequent in the mixed dry forests of the Prome District ; rarely en- 
tering the drier upper mixed forests.—Fl. Fr. Jan.-Feb.—l.—SS.—CaS. 
RemarxKs.—The flowers yield a valuable red dye of considerable importance. 
PEMPHIS, Forst, 
Calyx coriaceous, turbinate-bell-shaped, 6-lobed, the lobes erect, 
alternating with as many smaller, spreading, accesso Petals 
cles 2-bracted at the base 
1. P. acidula, Forst.; Bedd. Sylv. Madr. 117, t. 14, f. 5.—An 
evergreen shrub, all parts more or less greyish silk-hairy, the 
younger parts 4-cornered ; wood light brown, close-grained and 
Tous peduncles 2-bracted at the base, soli in the axils of the 
_ tawny puberulous ; petals 
tals white, : ou 
lin. long, very little protruded from the calyx, glabrous, crowned 
_by the persistent style. 
sserim, along the rocky coasts from Amherst down to Mergui; 
