LAGERSTRiEMIA LANQEOLATA, (Nat. ord. Lythrariete.) 



For Gen, Ohar. ewe under " L- Reginae." 



-UAGERSTR^EMIA LANCEOLATA. A small tree, leaves oblongo-lanceolate, or elliptic to ovate with a cordate base, 



smooth on both sides but pale and glaucous beneath, 2\ to 5 inches long by If to 2 broad, peduncles axillary two in each axil 



glabrous, as long or longer than the leaves, few flowered at the apex; flowers small white rather larger than iu L. microcarpa and 



parviflora, six outer stamens much longer than the others, capsule as large as in E. Regiute, \\ inches long, very hard, 4-celled. 



Wall. List. 2120. 



A small ornamental tree, common in Ike Bombay Presidency, and found in Mysore and at Courtallum, and cultivated in the Lai 

 Bagh ga^deis at Banjalore. I do not know the timber, but it is probably liki its congeners. In the northern part of the Bombay Presidency, 

 it is called Sokutia, in the south Bondara. 



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