purple ; seeds four. 
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i Callicarpa. TETRANDRIA MONOG YNIA. j -407 
Moluccas in 1798, aud in three years had.attained.to the height 
-of from four to eight feet high, considerably ramous, with the young 
parts downy, and the ligneous ones covered with smooth, pale ash- 
coloured bark. . They are in blossom in March and Apn chiefiy, 
though more or less the whole year; 
Leaves opposite, short-petioled, from broad. cordate to. oblong, 
reticulated with margins glandular-dentate-serrate ; 5 upper side-soft 
and of a deep green colour, but very downy, cand pale underneath.— 
Cymes axillary, dichotomous, scarcely longer than the petioles, vil- 
lous. — Flowers numerous, small, pale red colour.— Bractes subulate, 
caducous. —Calys woolly, four- toothed.—Corol companulate ; divi~ : 
sions sub- cordate.— Filaments longer than.the corols, and i inser ted 
into the base of its tube, ascending.—Style declined, length of tlie 
filaments. Stigma twoecleft. Beis 'y small, round, smooth, deep 
Obs. lt-differs from C. americana, Wi lid. in p a woolly, 
toothed caly x, two-lobed stigma and in the form of the leaves. 
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sf C. incana. R. | / 
" Shrubby, young shoots hoary. Leaves lanceolate, obtusely serru- 
late, fine- and entire-pointed, hoary undérneath. - 
_ Masbandari. Asiat. Res. iv. 233. 
Beng. Muttura, Muttrunja. 
A Stout shrub, with all the tender parts and the ünder mae of 
» 
yof 
— lheleaves densely clothed with long, soft, white, stellate pubescence: 
common in the vicinity of Calcutta, where it is in flower aud seed 
: m the wholé year. — 
I long considered this to be Vahl's macrophylla, but on rearing 
what I also took for the same species from Silhet and Chittagong, 
- in the Botanic Garden, I could plainly observe a striking difference 
When growing near each other, and as the Chittagong and Silhet sort — 
agrees much better with Vahl’s figure and description, I must.con- 
‘sider it to be his macrophylla. In the Calcutta plant, which Inow call 
incána, the leaves are never 'so broad in:proportion : ‘to ‘their length, 
