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'ed, and covered with grey farina.— Leaves opposite, petio! 
Calyx short; border four-sulcated, permanent,— Corol, tube b 
» 
408 ^ OTETRANDRIA MONOGYNÍA. Callicarpa: 
‘ed, lively purple, succulent, size of a small grain of black pepper, one- 
--&elled.—Seeds four, convex on the outside, with. two flat faces om 
the'inner, rough ; interior integument hard like the shell of angt— 
Peri risperm oval, soft, -amygdaline. — Embryo : straight, erect, nearly as- 
Jong as the perisperm. — Co/yledons oblong. — Kadicle oblong, the 
length of the COMO, inferior. 1 
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2. C: iiia. Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. Willd. i. 620. 
Arboreous, ail the young parts mealy. Leaves opposite, oval, 
entire, downy. Corymbs axillary, dichotomous throughout. | Corols E 
oblique: s 
Tomex tomentosa. Hh lor. Zeyl. N. 59. Pe 
A pretty large tree, a native of the Concer mountains, and of the 
vallies between them. 
Trunk perfectly straight, and of a cainii height.— —Bark 
smooth, ash-coloured. Branches few, and near the top, forming but 
a smallshead for so large a trunk. Young-shcots somewhat four-sid- 
ed, ovate, 
tapering toa point, entire, downy, below whitish with much dows ; 
from nine to ten inches long, and five or six broad, — Petiols round, 
two or three inches long, covered. with down.— Corymbs _ axil- 
lary, erect, two-forked throughout; every part. covered. with grey 
Tarina.— Bracies small.— Flowers very numerous, small, purple.— 
ent 
toone side, The other parts as in the genus.—Style descending. 
Obs. The wood of this tree is white, spongy, and of course. not 
` fit for much use, - 
3. C. cana. Linn. Sp. PI. ed. Willd. i 620. 
- Shrubby, downy. Leaves ovate, g elandular-dentate-serrate; 
ny underneath. MAN siian; sub-globular. Sgen bifid. Ber 5 
ries purple. i 
~ Callicarpa americana. Tie Cochinch. ed. Willd. i. p. $3. i 
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