522 LYTHRARIER. [ Lagerstramia. 
Has.—Generally cultivated in gardens of Ava, Pegu, and Martaban down to 
Tenasserim.—Fl. May-June. 
3. L. calyculata, Kz.—Pyimma-hpyoo.—An evergreen tree 
(60—70 +30—40+4+4—7), the shoots tomentose; bark quite 
smooth, about 2-3 lin. long, grey, peeling off into concave pieces ; 
cut greenish pale-brown ; leaves oblong, rounded at the unequal 
base and somewhat decurrent on the short petiole, acuminate, 
about 5-7 in. long, almost coriaceous, glabrous and minutely net- 
veined above, beneath puberulous and strongly net-veined: between 
the prominent nerves ; flowers not seen; panicles terminal, rusty 
or tawny tomentose, composed of longer or shorter racemes ; fruit- 
ing calyx cupular-bell-shaped, about 2-24 lin. deep, without ribs or 
furrows, densely rusty tomentose, 6-lobed, the lobes shortly trian- 
gular, acute, reflexed ; capsules on very short thick pedicels either 
solitary or by 2 or 3 on a hardly a line long peduncle, oblong, 
mucronulate, glossy, for about 4 to % protruded from the closely 
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embracing calyx, 3-4 lin. long, 6-valved. 
Has.—Frequent in the tropical forests of Martaban east of Tounghoo.—Fr. 
March-Apr.—s.—SS.=Metam. 
REMaRxKs.—Wood brown, heavy, of somewhat unequal fibre, close-grained, 
rather soft, soon attacked by xylophages. 
* * Calyx-furrowed, plicate-suleate, or sharply, sometimes 
wingedly, angular. 
: toss pedicals, solitary or in peduncled poor cymes, forming a lax, 
_ branched, tawny or rusty floccose-tomentose panicle at the end of 
the branchlets; calyx in bud turbinate, densely tawny floccose- 
