no WrüTRANDEIÁ MONOSYNIA. Callicarpa, 
11. C. purpurea, Juss. 
Shrubby ; branchlets and younger parts slightly bl Leaves 
stib-sessile, lanceolate, acuminate, serrate, with sub-entire cuneate’ 
base, smooth above, glandular-dotted below. Corymbs axillary, very 
small, dichotomous ; flowers glandular. 
Porphyra dichotoma. Lour. Cochinch. ed. Willd. i. 87. 
A native of China. Introduced in 1812, into the Botanic Garden, 
at Calcutta, where it thrives extremely well, has attained a height of | 
from four to six feet, and blossoms from April to September. The 
berries ripen at the close of the rainy season. : I E 
Shrubby, spreading, with reundish branches, covered with sca- 
brous gray bark. Branchilets very slender, slightly scabrous, and 
beset with ferruginous stellate and somewhat scaly pubescence ; new 
shoots almost mealy.— Leaves from lanceolar to oval, two inches 
long, tapering at both ends, but more so at the base, and only there 
entire: the rest of the margin serrulate; without any hair or down, 
but scabrous below, from a great number of minute brown shining 
glandular dots which impart on being rubbed, a faintly aromatic smell; 
nerves and ribs elevated and slightly scaly.— Petiols very short.— 
Corymbs axillary, or rather supra-axillary, small, round, two or three 
times dichotomous, many times shorter than the leaves; peduncles 
short, divaricate, beset with mealy pubescence, with minute lanceo~ 
late scales under each sub-division.— Flowers fragrant, purple, mark- 
ed with glandular dots.—Calyx turbinate with very small obtuse 
teeth.—Coro/ about three times longer than the calyx, infundibuli- 
form ; lacinig oval, obtuse.— Filaments almost twice as long as the 
corolla, purple ; anthers large, orange-coloured, covered with many 
glandular dots.—Stigma sub-capitate, elevated above the anthers.— 
Berry very small, purple, at last red, with one or two fertile seeds. 
Obs. I cannot but consider this as Loureiro's plant quoted above, 
which Jussieu has justly placed among the genus Callicarpa- Tt 
seems to be nearly allied to C. japonica, but differs chiefly in want-. 
ing the smoothness, the short stamina and pistillum, and the acute 
stigma ofthe latter, Its flowers are besides of a beautiful purple 
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