524 LYTHRARIEE. [ Lagerstremia. 
B.—Common in the moister upper mixed aes of the Andamans,—Fl. 
Fuse Inly Fr. C.8.—SS.=878.—Chloritic rocks, 
RemarxKs.—Wood greyish brown, oo close-grained and heavy. 
8. L. flos-reginez, Retz; (L. regine, Roxb. ; Bedd. Sylv. Madr. 
t.29; Brand. For. Fl. 240) _—Pyimma .—A tree (50—60 +20—30+4 
6—12) , leafless during H.S., all parts glabrous; bark grey; leaves 
oblong to oblong-lanceolate, acute or rarely obtuse at the base, blunt- 
ish acuminate, almost blunt or bluntish es un petioled, 
5-9 in. long, chartaceous, entire, glabrous, more or less parallel- 
penninerved ; owe wers orgretin purplish lilac or rarely white, 2-3 
in. in diameter, on rather thick greyish powdery pedicels, in small 
peduncled cymes, or the ae ones singly, forming terminal pani- 
latter long fneclt, acute, thick coriaceous, thickened on the 
borders; petals about an inch long, almost orbicular, shortly 
clawed, crumpled ‘ik curled ; stamens all equally long; capsules 
m oblong a nearly globose, 4 to } in. long, mucronate, 6-celled ; 
“ seeds brown and smooth, corky, irregularly 3-angular, y 
expanded into an oblong wing, 
AB.—Common in the mixed forests, all over Burma from Chittagong and 
os ee Tenasserim, up to 2,000 ft. elevation —Fl. H.S.; Fr. CS—lL— 
Remarxks.—Wood pale or dark brown, rather — sacakel: fibrous, but 
close-grained, takes a fine polish. O'== 37 pd.—Used for house-posts, 1 
beams, scantling for roofs, carts, boats, paddles, oars, etc. Exudes a resin. 
9. L. m Wall.—Kone-pyimma.—A tree (30—40+8 
—15+5—3), leafless in H.S., all parts glabrous; leaves oblong to — 
peice de shortly petioled, usually large, especialiy those of the 
young shoots (attaining sometimes 1} ft.in length), the older ones 
from 5-6 to 9 in. in laigetis blunt, bluntish apiculate or rarely 
peak oat chartaceous, entire, glabrous ; flowers from 3 to 34 in. in 
diameter, lilac or — lilac, on rather thick greyish powdery 
pedicels, singly or by 2 or 3 in peduncled cymes, os poor and 
rather short panicles at the end of the branchl calyx in bud 
__ oblong-turbinate, greyish velvety, finely sulcate, not ribbed, the 
__ 6 lanceolate acute lobes not thickened along the borders ; petals 1-14 
in. long, broadly elliptical or almost orbicular, clawed, crumpled and 
_ waved ; stamens all equally long ; snesacis 1-14 in. long, woody, 
- oblong, mucronate ; seeds as in the preceding Sc but larger. 
3 aB.—Common in ‘ac Gdods pen forests, Lene eg: sek Mantnbas st 
wn as Moulmein.—Fi. HLS. ; Fr. C. C8.—1—S8-— 
josa, Wall. — Foung-ka-lay.—A tree (40—50-+ 15—20 
