DECEMBER 14, 1908] THREE Score or New PLANTS 513 
Without mature fruits the proper genus cannot positive- 
ly be determined. 
VERBENACE. 
CALLICARPA Linn. 
Callicarpa subglandulosa Elm. n. sp. 
Erect tree, 6 or more m. high; stems 3 dm. thick; branch- 
es widely spreading above the middle; twigs angular, the 
younger portions yellowish lepidote. Leaves coriaceous, dark 
green and glabrous above except the nerves, densely covered 
beneath with minute yellowish glands, opposite, scattered 
chiefly toward the ends of the twigs, quite variable in size, 
ovately lanceolate, apex sharply acuminate, base short obtuse 
or rounded, the average blades 15 cm. long by 7 cm. wide 
below the middle, entire; petiole lepidote, about 3 cm. long; 
nerves very prominent beneath, 5 to 7 or even 9 lateral 
pairs, ascendingly curved, the lower two pairs approximate 
and arising from near the base, tips anastomosing, the nu- 
merous cross bars parallel and prominent, reticulations faint, 
all more or less lepidote or covered with minute clusters of 
stellate hairs. Inflorescence terminal or from the uppermost 
leaf axils, ascending, 1 to 2 dm. long, corymbosely branch- 
ed above the middle, densely covered with minute stellate 
clusters; branches subtended by elongated recurved subpersist- 
ent bracts whose ventral sides are glabrous; pedicels 2 mm. 
long, woolly, subtended by linear bracteoles; calyx turbinate, 3 
mm. long, equally as wide across the top, lepidote and 
glandular, 4-apiculate; corolla white, 6 mm. long, also tur- 
binate, glabrous, glandular only on the outer side of the broad- 
ly rounded 4 segments, nervose; stamens 4; filaments fili- - 
form, glabrous, 8 mm. long, inserted upon the corolla 1 
mm. from the hase; anther subdorsifixed, oblong, with trun- 
cate ends, 1.25 mm. long; style linear, comparatively thick, 
terminated by a slightly enlarged stigma, glabrous; ovary - 
subglobose, the upper one half densely covered with resinous ~ 
glands; fruits subglabrous, 5 mm. thick, globose or obscure- 
ly obovoid, 4-seeded; seeds encased in crustaceous exocarps 
with broad convex dorsal side snd with 2i inner subconvex sides. 
