Callicarpa, TETRANDRIA MONOGYNIA: _ 391 
which may be reckoned one-fourth of the whole. Panicles 
axillary, solitary, or paired, the largest on a peduncle as Tong 
as the petioles, sub-rotund, from six or eight times dichoto- 
mous, all the ramifications somewhat four-cornered and mea- 
ly. Flowers small, very numerous, lively purple, or lilac, 
small, rather offensive. Bractes minute. Calyx campanu- 
late, obscurely four-toothed, mealy on the outside.” Corol 
with the tube much longer than the calyx, one of the seg- 
ments of its border smaller. Filaments twice the length of 
the corol, Anthers brown. Germ superior, round, four-cell- 
ed, with-one ovulum in each, attached to the middle of the 
axis, Style as long as the stamens, and bent in an opposite 
direction. Stigma headed. Berry superior, round, polished, 
lively purple, succulent, size of a small grain of black pep- | 
per; one-celled. Seeds four, convex on the outside, with two 
flat faces on the inner, rough; interior integument hard like 
the shell of a nut. Perisperm oval, soft, amygdaline. Em-. 
bryo straight, erect, nearly as long as the perisperm. Coty- 
tedons oblong. Radiele usin we Ate soap the cotyledons, 
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- 2.C. lanata. Linn, sp. pl. ed. Willd. i. 620. 
Arboreous, all the young parts mealy. Leaves opposite, 
a entire, downy. Corymbs axillary, i iar 
‘ Corols oblique. 
teint: tomentosa. Flor. Zeyl. N. 59. 
A pretty large’tree, a native of the sivas bnieree and 
‘of the vallies between them. 
Trunk perfectly straight, and of a considerable’ height 
‘Bark smooth, ash-coloured. Branches few, and near the 
top, forming but a'small head for so large'a trunk.” Young 
_— epsretibasina! sea ci and covered with gray fariia, 
: és y dled, ovate, tapering to a point, entire, 
stibebioys “yelow'' whitish with much down; from nine to ten 
inches long, and five or six broad. Petioles round, two or 
three inches long, covered with down, Corymbs axillary, 
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