LAGETTA (native name of the genus). Lace Bark. ORD. Thymelaeaceae. A genus of two species of elegantly-reticulated trees, native of the East Indies. Flowers few, in loose terminal spikes or racemes, sessile, or shortly pedicellate. Leaves alternate, oblong or broad. L. lintearia, the species in cultivation, is a stove evergreen tree, the inner bark of which furnishes the beautiful Lace Bark of commerce. It thrives in a compost of peat and fibry loam. Propagated, in spring, by cuttings of half-ripened shoots placed in sand, under a glass, in bottom heat. LAGETTA lintearia (linen). fl. white, with a tubular coloured perianth, a distended tube, and contracted throat. l. ovate, acute. h. 6ft. Jamaica, 1793. (B. M. 4502.)