AERIS, iad wa a A ad SET aaa Pen ON by oe Sk eae NEE ce pecs SAT att aren ANNE Ree ae 1S eee fas dar area Cad seer NAR 2 Sarl fant, eA ee OS eden athe oy Fiulasd * 
Crypteronia. ] LYTHRARIES, 519 
LAWSONIA, L. 
Calyx-tube broadly turbinate, 4-lobed, without accessory teeth. 
Petals 4, sessile. Stamens 8, inserted on an annular ring at the 
is inermis, L. (L. alba, Lam); Bedd. Sylv. Madr. 118, t. 
14, f 6) ; Brand. For. Fl. 238), —Dan,—A leaf-shedding much- 
slender pedicels, in "ex little racemes usually forming a ee leafy 
terminal panicle ; calyx smooth, deeply 4-lobed, the lobes spread- 
ing about a line ‘long; petals ‘iehisehes with i ineurved. much-curled 
ers ; capsule globular, 4-celled and grooved, the size of a very 
small pea, depressed at the top, cer by the style. 
Has.—Often cultivated, especially in the Prome zone,—Fl, Fr. nearly o, 
CRYPTERONIA, BI. 
Flowers polygamously dioecious or hermaphrodite. Calyx-tube 
cup-shaped, 4-5-lobed. Petals none. Stamens 4 or 5, 
with an obtuse ie firs pe sounded. the base sg the 
‘y racemes often collected into panicles, 
1. C. paniculata, Bl—Azan-ipo—aAn evergreen tree (50— 
80-+30—-50+4—9), all parts glabrous; bark silvery grey, rather 
PNY deeply longitudinally, and minutely transversely, fissured, 
in. thick; cut brown ; leaves oblong to Rioagtaasiclsin: 
ek at ae base, bluntish acuminate or blunt, shortly petioled, 
entire, chartaceous, about 4-5 in. long, glabrous ; —— minute, 
— on short but slender puberulous pedicels, forming slender, 
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