Callicarpa. |. JTETRANDRIA MONOGYNIA. : |... 405 
bruised and applied to the skin, it soon raises blisters ; for which 
purpose the natives often use it. As a stimulant it promises to be 
 &medicine possessed of very considerable powers. 
CALLICARPA. Schreb. Gen. N. 175. 
Calyx four-toothed. | Corol one-petalled, tubular, four-perted, 
Germ fourecelled, ceils one-seeded; ovula attached to the middle of 
the axis. Berry four-seeded.. , mine erect, and furnished with 
à perisperm, er. : 
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1. C. arborea. R. 
Arboreous. Leaves long-petioled, oblong, ventricose, tapering 
much toward both ends, entire, hairy underneath- Panicles: pulley, 
sub-globular, throughout dichotomous. 
A stout tall tree ; a native of Chittagong.* Flowers at various 
tines through the year. | i 
Trunk nearly erect, and in trees nine years old, thirty-three inch- 
es in circumference four feet above the surface of the soil. Branch- 
es spreading. «— Branchlets obtusely four-cornered, and mealy.— 
Leaves opposite, long-petioled, oblong, ventricose, tapering equally | 
at each end, entire, smooth above, hairy underneath, while young 
and unexpanded very mealy on both sides; length from six to twelve 
‘inches, petiole included, which may be reckoned one-fourth of the 
whole.— Panicles axillary, solitary, or paired, the largest on a pedun- 
cle as long as the petioles, sub-rotund, from six or eight times dicho. 
tomous, all the ramifications somewhat four-cornered and mealy. 
— Flowers small, very numerous, lively purple, or lilac, small, rather 
offensive.— Bractes minute.—Ca/yx companulate, obscurely four- 
toothed, mealy on the outside.— Coro] with the tube much longer 
than the calyx, one of the segments of its border smaller.—PFifa- 
enis twice the length of the corol. Anthers brown. — Germ supe- 
Hor, round, four-celled, with one ovula in each, attached to the 
Middle of the axis. Style as long as the stamens, and bent in an 
9pposite direction. Stigma headed.— Berry Mati, round, polish- 
^ Jt ia very common alse about Katmandu in Nepala.—N. W. 
