LYTHRARIACE^. 455 



capsular, septifragally 4-valvate; seeds oo , oblong minute; cotyledons 

 of straight rather fleshy embryo oblong, subauriculate at base; radicle 

 rather thick. — A glabrous shrub ; branches 4-gonal ; leaves opposite, 

 elongate, entire, shortly petiolate; flowers (rather large) axillary 

 few cymose ; ' pedicels 2-bracteolate. {Mauritius.^) 



12. Lagerstroemia L.^ — Flowers generally 6-merous ;^ receptacle 

 campanulate or turbinate, smooth, sulcate or angulate, sometimes 

 alate {Pterocalymna^). Sepals 6, 3-angular, valvate; accessory teeth 

 same in number small (or 0). Petals 6, inserted in throat of recep- 

 tacle, unguiculate, undulately crispate, contorto-corrugate in sestiva- 

 tion. Stamens oo , interior to petals ; filaments free, sometimes very 

 unequal f anthers introrse, versatile, 2-rimose.^ Germen free sessile 

 at bottom of receptacle ; cells 3-6, alternipetalous ; style slender 

 flexuose, at apex stigmatose capitellate. Ovules oo , inserted in in- 

 ternal angle of cells, often ascending. Fruit capsular, girt at base 

 with receptacle, thick coriaceous, loculicidally 3-6-valvate ; valves 

 septiferous in the middle. Seeds oo , sometimes few, compressed, 

 alate above ; cotyledons of exalbuminous embryo straight, curved or 

 contortuplicate; radicle cylindrical, often er inferior. — Trees or shrubs; 

 ramules 4-gonal ; leaves opposite or sometimes alternate, petiolate, 

 entire penninerved ; flowers' in axillary and terminal racemes, often 

 full, much branched, often 3-chotomous cymiferous, bracteate and 2- 

 bracteolate.' {Warm Asia, trof. Oceania}") 



13. Duabanga Hamilt.'^ — Flowers (nearly of ia^ersircBmm) 4- 

 8-merous ; receptacle widely cupular-turbinate. Sepals 4-8, margi- 

 nally inserted, thick, 3-angular, valvate. Petals same in number 

 alternate and stamens oo (of Lagerstroemia). Germen adnate to 



1 Spuriously umbellate. ' Pollen spherical (ex H. Mohl, Ann. So. Nat. 



' Spec. 1. T, salicifoUa. eer. 2, iii. 331) in L. indica, and marked witli 3 



^ Gen. n. 667. — J. Gen. 331. — DC. Frodr. iii. connivent lines at each, pole, with an areolate 



93. — Spach, Suit, a Buffon, It. 439. — Endl. Gen. pore between each of the lines. 

 n. 6164. — B. H. Geti. 783, n. 24. — H. Bn. Payer ^ Often large, showy, pink or white. 



Fam, Nat. 355. — Hook. Fl. Ind. ii. 576. — Velaga ° Bracts formed of 2 small lateral glanduli- 



G-JJBTN. Fruct. ii. 245, t. 133. — Miinchhausia L. form stipules (?). 



Mantiss. 153. — Banana Camell. (ex Ray). — "• Spec. 10-12. K«;mpp. Amcen. 855 {SHi). — 



Adambea Lamk. Diet. i. 39. — ArjmaJoTSi-ES,Jsiat. Eoxb. PL Coram, t. 65, 66. — Wight, III. i. t. 86 ; 



Res. iv. 301 (ex EoxB.).— Jffl^wa DC. Prodv. iii. lam. t. 69, 109, 413.— Bl. Mm. Lugd.-Bat. ii.t. 



88. 41, 42.— MiQ. Fl. Ind.-Bat. i. p. i. 620.— Thw. 



■• More rarely 4-5-merous. Enum. PI. Zeyl. 122. — Walp. Rep. ii. 114 ; Ann. 



s ToRCZ. B%Ul. Uosc. (1846) ii. 508. i. 295 ; iv. 68U. 



" Of which 5, 6, alternipetalous, sometimes '^ Trans. Linn. Soc. xvii. 178. — Endl. Gen. n. 



much longer ; the others shorter subregularly 6165.— B. H. Gen. 783, n. 25.— Hook. Fl. Ind. 



fasciculate before each petal and nearly equal ii. 578. 

 to each other. 



