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Sree. Cunkr. Shrub: leaves opposite, oval-lanceolate, quite 
entire, glabrous: flowers panicled, pale-greenish, fragrant, 
Peninsula. Hindostan. Flowering neatly all the. year. This 
jis the Henna plant or Mendie. It is vety common in gatdens as a 
hedge-plant; much resembling the English Privet. The fresh 
leaves, beaten up with Catechu aré used by the women of India for 
‘dyeing the nails and.skin of a reddish orange-colour, There is a 
deautifel variety with red flowers. - 
GENUS Vit. -GRISLEA. 
Octandria Monogynia; sex: Syst? 
Deriv. Named after Dr. Grisley, a Portuguese surgeon, 
Gen. Car. Calyx toloured, tubular, with 46 erect teeth and 
‘as many smaller horn-shaped sintises? petals 4~6, inserted on the 
‘top of the calyx-tube, linear or oblong, unguiculate? stamens pro« 
traded, inserted into the base of the calyx ; ovary sessile, 2-celled } 
style. filiform, protruded: stigma 2~¢left: capsule 2-celted, 2-valv= 
ed, included within the calyx: seeds very numerous. 
(1) G. tomentosa. (Rowd.) 
Ident. W. &. A. prod. I, pi 808.~-Roxb, fl. Ind. II. p. 233, 
=-Dec. prod, IIT. p. 92. 
Syn. Tsythtum fraticosum, Linn. 
_ Engrav. Roxb. Cor. I, t. 31.-Bot. Reg. 1. t. 40.-Bot. Mags 
XLIV. t. 1906. 
Srzc. Car. Shrub: branchlets pubescent: leaves opposite, 
quite entite, lanceolaté, somewhat tordate at the base, sessile, hoary 
underneath: petals usually 6: stamens declinate, usually 12: cap- 
sule oblong: peduncles axillary, several«flowered: flowers middlea 
sized, scatlet, with rose-coloured. petals. : 
Peninsula. Concans and Western Ghauts. Northern Indias 
Flowering from December to March. The flowers are employed to 
dye red. 
GENUS VII. LAGERSTRAEMTA. 
Teosandria Monogynia. Sex: Syst: 
Deris. Named in honor of M. Lagerstroem, of:Gottenburgh. 
Gen. Cuak. Trees or shrubs with quadrangular branches: leaves 
opposite, quite entire: peduncles -axillaty, panicled or racemose 
towards the end of the branches: calyx with two bracts at the base,. 
6-cleft; lobes distinct: sinuses rounded: petals 6, clawed: caps ~- 
sule surrounded below by the persistent calyx, 3-6-valved, 3~6- 
celled. 
