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LIII. LYTHRARIE^. 
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fugacious. Stamens 12 ; filaments 2 or 8 lines long, subulate-filiform ; anthers 
dorsifixed, ovate-cordate, about f line long. Style glabrous, filiform, about 2 
lines long ; stigma scarcely thicker than the style. Ovary free, ovate, very shortly 
stipitate, 4-celled ; placenta axillary. 
Hab.: Bowen Downs, C. Weld Birch (F. v. M. l.e.) 
5. PEMPHIS, Forst. 
(From pemphis, a swelling.) 
(Maclellandia, Wight.) 
Calyx campanulate, slightly striate, with 6 short erect triangular primary lobes 
or teeth, the sinuses produced into as many small accessory spreading ones. 
Petals 6, oval. Stamens 12, shorter than the calyx, and attached rather above 
the middle of the tube. Ovary small, 8-celled at the base only, with several 
ovules in each cell ; style rather thick, with a broad capitate stigma. Capsule 
globular, enclosed in the calyx, transversely circumciss. Seeds angular or 
compressed, the testa thick with the angles often expanded into narrow thick 
wings.— Shrub. Leaves opposite. Flowers solitary in the axils. 
The genus is limited to a single species. 
1. P. acidula (fruit acid), Forst; DC. Prod. iii. 89; Benth. FI. Austr. iii. 
300. A small and bushy or tall and spreading shrub or small tree, more or less 
hoary with a minute tomentum. Leaves oblong, obtuse, narrowed into a short 
petiole, rather thick, 1-nerved, about |in. long. Flowers in the upper axils, on 
pedicels shorter or rarely rather longer than the leaves. Bracteoles none. Calyx 
about 2 lines long, the accessory lobes much shorter than the primary ones. 
Petals 3 to 4 lines long. Fruiting-calyx not much enlarged. — Blume, Mus. Bot. 
ii. t. 43 ; Maclellandia Griffithiana, Wight, Ic. t. 1996. 
Hab.: Tropical seacoasts and adjoining islands, R. Broum, A. Cunningham, F. v. Mueller , 
M'Gillivray, Leichhardt, W. Hill. 
The species is widely spread over the seacoasts of tropical Asia and the Pacific Islands. 
6. LAGERSTRCEMIA, Linn. 
(After Magnus Lagerstroem.) 
Calyx-tube turbinate-campanulate, smooth or plicato-sulcate, with 6 ovate 
subacute lobes. Petals 6, sometimes 7 to 9 (or none) inserted in the throat of the 
calyx, obovate-oblong, clawed, and wavy or curled. Stamens numerous, inserted near 
the base of the calyx-tube ; filaments long ; anthers versatile, didymous or oblong 
recurved. Ovary sessile in the bottom of the calyx, 3 to 6-celled. Style long, 
filiform, flexuose ; stigma capitate ; ovules very many, ascending, placentas axile. 
Capsule more or less adnate to the calyx, ellipsoid, coriaceous, 3 to 6-celled, 3 to 
6-valved. Seeds numerous (seldom few), elongate, flat, erect, winged from the 
summit. — Trees or shrubs. Leaves opposite, distichous (or the uppermost 
alternate), entire, oblong or ovate. Panicles axillary and terminal, usually 
trichotomous, sometimes dense. Peduncles 2-bracteate at their apex ; pedicels 
2-bracteolate. Flowers often large and showy. 
Found from south-east Asia to Australia, Burma being the centre of the genus. — FI. British 
India (C. B. Clarke). % 
Sect. I. Velagfa. — Calyx-tuhe smooth, neither ribbed nor subulate. 
Petals on long claws. Capsule nearly globose. Calyx-teeth erect on the 
fruit 1. L. indica. 
Sect. II. Adambea.- Calyx-tube grooved, ribbed or subulate. 
Petiole distinct, usually about 3 lines long. Calyx covered with a hard 
white or ferruginous tomentum ; ribs 12 to 14, flat or round, not acute on 
the back. Petals lin. or more long; apex of ovary glabrous. Fruit 
exceeding lin. long and almost as broad 2. L. Flos-Reyiiue. 
Petiole 3 lines long. Petals with claw under lin. Fruit about 8 lines long 
and half as broad 3. L. Archeriana. 
