392. TETRANDRIA MONOGYNIA, Callicarpa, 
erect, two-forked throughout; every part covered with gray 
farma. Bractes small. Flowers very numerous, small, pur- 
ple. Calyx short; border four-sulcated, permanent,  Corol, 
iube bent to one 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. pl. ed. Wiild. i. 620. 
 Shrubby, downy. Leaves ovate, chindedatehessategeahiiis 
downy underneath. Panicles aillarys saleeinbulat? sana 
bifid. Berries purple. 
Caliicarpa americana, Louriero, Cochin Ch, in Witt, hy 
p. 88. 
This shrub was ‘atradiaees] into ae Botanic tana from 
the Moluccas in 1798, and 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 cover- 
ed with smooth, pale ash-coloured bark, They are in blos- 
som in March and April chiefly, though more or less the 
whole year. 
Leaves opposite, short-petioled, from broad cordate to oki 
long, reticulated with margins glandular-dentate-serrate ; up- 
per side soft and of a deep green colour, but very downy, and. 
pale underneath, Cymes axillary, dichotomous, scarcely longer 
than the petioles, villous. Flowers numerous, small, pale red 
colour. Bractes subulate, caducous. Calyx woolly, four-tooth- 
ed. Corol campanulate ; divisions sub-cordate. Filaments 
longer than the corols, and: inserted into the base of its tube, 
ascending, Style declined, length of the filaments, Stigma 
two-cleft. Berry smal, round, smooth, deep penne Seeds 
four. a 
Obs, It differs from C. americana, Willd. in sani a oe 
ly, toothed calyx, two-lobed stigma and in the form of the 
