520 LYTHRARIER. [ Lagerstramia. 
puberulous or glabrous racemes arranged in terminal leafless pan- 
icles ; ovary shortly greyish tomentose; calyx hardly 1-14 lin. in 
diameter, 5-toothed, minutely appressed pubescent, the teeth trian- 
gular-lanceolate, acute ; stamens in hermaphrodite flowers only as 
long as the calyx-teeth, in the males elongate and slender ; Seitilen 
as large as a pepper-kernel, almost 2-lobed, minutely velvety and 
glabrescent, crowned by the persistent style ; seeds minute, linear, 
brown and glossy narrowly winged along one side, the wing pro- 
meets at cas 
labra — glabra, Wall.) : rachis of racemes, at 
least =e vif frui 
Var. 2. pu ans “4 yore Griff., zo¢ Planch.) : rachis 
of racemes permanently densely puberulous 
Haxs.—Var. 2. Frequent in the tropical and goat upper aiat forests, 
from Chitt: ttagong, Pegu, and tet ry to Tenasserim.—Fl. Nov.-Jan. ; 
Fr. Feb.-May.—sx1.—SS. = SiS. M 
Shilsee peo —Wood pale to reddish theowra: a dies; but not straight- 
rather heavy, the annual rings narro Used occasionally for cart- 
sole, ‘but more in use 3 for firewood. 
LAGERSTREMIA, L. 
Calyx-tube turbinate-bell-shaped, 4-6- (rarely ee lobed, plain 
or plaited-furrowed. Petals 4-6, clawed, crumpled. Stamens 
numerous, inedited near the base of the calyx-tube ; filaments long, 
exserted. Ovary sessile, enclosed in the calyx-tube, 3- 6-celled, 
with numerous ascending ovules attached to the axillary placentas ; 
style flexuose, filiform, with a capitate stigma. Capsule at the 
e surrounded by the, calyx, woody or rigidly coriaceous, 3-6- 
celled, opening loculicidally into 3-6 valves, each valve bearing the 
partition i in ed poe Seeds few or many, compressed, imbricate, 
terminati a wing, the testa thick and spongy.—Trees or 
shrubs, with siiasts entire leaves. Flowers usually showy, 2- 
bracteoled, i in axillary or terminal usually trichotomously branched 
es. ; 
* Ca é, without rib. ot poten d 
oO Daler a a all other sche glabr 
ee sha eta beneath ; flowers handle Zanin. in dia. 
‘ . L. parvifiora, 
ee green ; flowers 142i in, in diameter. | -  «. L. Indica. 
O O Calyz and inflorescence covered by a rusty-coloured 
a ‘Flowers almost racemose, in oer calyx }$-2 shorter than the 
| ma . L. ealyeulata, 
kK % alee “furrowed, Plicate-sutoate’ or angular, with the 
“Se cabanenga almost 
Rid or angles twice ae many as calya: lobe, the alter- 
ones terminating at the sinuses 0 
= en the longer mgen ones running throughout the lobes, 
