aetna 
Lagerstremia. ] LYTHRARIER. 523 
very long; capsules oblong, mucronulate, under 4 an in. long, 
smoo labrous. 
Has.—Frequent all over Pegu and Martaban, in the tropical and moister 
upper mixed forests. —Fl. Apr.-May ; Fr. May-June.—s: 1—SS.—Metam.—SiS. 
Remarks.—Wood dark brown, close-grained, heavy, the annual rings dis- 
tinct and narrow. O’=53 pd. Valued for bows and spear-handles ; also used 
for canoes and cart-wheels. Exudes red resin. 
base, nearly an in. long, erose and longish fringed ; ovary silky- 
tomentose ; capsule white-tomentose, globose, 
Has.—Adjoining provinces of Siam.—Fl, H.S. 
7. L. hypoleuca, Kz.—A tree (60—70+25—30+45—9)  shed- 
ding leaves in H.S., all parts glabrous ; bark thin, whitish ; leaves 
er Pp 
lanceolate to oblong-lanceolate, decurrent at the acuminate base, 
shortly petioled, acuminate, entire or waved, chartaceous, 6-8 in. 
long, whitish glaucous beneath ; flowers middling sized, about 1-14 
in. in diameter, lilac, on jomted whitish puberous pedicels, solitary, 
or in poor, short-peduncled, minutely greyish puberulous cymes 
forming elongate panicles at the end of the branches ; calyx in bud 
turbinate, whitish from a minute velvety pubescence, sulcate-] 0-rib- 
bed, the alternate ribs excurrent into the 5 triangular acute lobes 
and forming a straight minute mucro; petals oblong, waved, about 
4 an in. long; capsule oblong, mucronate, woody, about 3 in. long. 
