390 TETRANDRIA MONOGYNIA, Callicarpa, 
Panicles terminal, and from the exterior axills, Flowers 
minute, very numerous, greenish-yellow. Bractes minute, 
Calyx inferior, four-toothed, permanent. Coral one-petalled, 
Tube short, border four-cleft; segments oblong, revolute, 
Filamenis four, inserted into the tube of the corol under its fis= 
sures, and rather shorter than the border, Anthers oval. Germ 
globular, style none, .Séigma scabrous. Berry very minute, 
_ much smaller than a grain of black pepper, smooth, _ 
jniey Seed one... : 
- Obs, The berries have a strong aromatic smell, ert taste 
tages like garden cresses. The atk of the root is remarka- 
bly acrid, bruised and applied to the skin, soon raises blis- 
ters, for which purpose the natives often use it. As a stimu- 
lant it promises to be a medicine esis of ny consider- 
able powers, Rrthes i 
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the 
“CALLICARPA. Schreb. gen. N. 175. 
Calyx four-toothed. Corol one-petalled, tubular, fin 
parted. Germ four-celled, cells one-seeded ; ovula attach- 
ed to the middle of the axis, Berry fount etded: pers 
erect, and furnished with a perisperm. 
1G. elon RIE TNR al 
-Arboreous. Leaves Tong. petioledy valle wiheciecivss ta- 
_ pering much toward both ends, entire, hairy: ee. 
eeniatis: illary, sub-globular, throughout dichot 
_ A stout tall tree ; a native of Chittagong. ‘Fidwers at wari: 
ous times through the year. : HHS 
Trunk nearly erect, and in trees nine years old, shite 
“tae in circumference four feet above the surface ofthe soil. 
Branches spreading. Brachlets obtusely four-cornered, and 
-mealy. Leaves opposite, long-petioled, oblong, ventricose, 
_ tapering equally at each end, entire, smooth above, hairy 
