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LAGERSTRCEMIA ELEGANS. 
various domestic uses. The flowers of Lythrum Hunteri, and Grislea tomentosa, 
which are of a beautiful red, when mixed with those of Morinda, form a fine dye. 
Lawsonia inermis, of Linnaeus, or alba of some authors, is generally supposed to be 
the cypress or gopher wood of the ancients ; the leaves, also, when pounded and 
made into a paste, constitute the dye called Henna, with which the Egyptian women 
stain their nails and feet. Of the second division, Lagerstrcemece, may be mentioned 
Playsocalymna floribunda, the flowers of which, according to Don, resemble those of 
Lagerstrcemia : the wood is rose-coloured, and much esteemed by cabinet-makers. 
In Germany it is called Rosenholz ; in the province of Goyaz, in Brazil, Cego 
machado ; in the province of Rio Janeiro, Pao de rosa. It is, however, not the 
Rosewood of English cabinet-makers, as Don imagined. See Dr. Lindley's Vegetable 
Kingdom, 2nd edition, under Leguminous Plants. 
