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10. CALLICARPA L. Sp. PI. 111. 1753. 



Shrubs or trees, with opposite leave?, and small blue purple or white 

 flowers in axillary cymes. Calyx short, campanulate, 4-toothed (rarely 5- 

 toothed), or truncate. Corolla-tube short, expanded above, the limb 4-cleft 

 (rarely 5-cleft), the lobes equal. Stamens 4, equal, exserted; anther-sacs 

 parallel. Ovary incompletely 2-celled; ovules 2 in each cavity, laterally at- 

 tached, amphitropous ; style slender; stigma capitate, or 2-lobed. Fruit a 

 berry-like drupe, much longer than the calyx, containing 1-4 nutlets. [Greek, 

 handsome fruit.] About 35 species of Asia, Africa and America. Type 

 species: Callicarpa americana L. 



1. Callicarpa Hitchcockii Millsp. Field Mus. Bot. 2: 312. 1909. 



A shrub, 2-3 m. high, with weak elongated vine-like branches, the slender 

 twigs densely brown-scurfy. Leaves oblanceolate or linear-oblanceolate, sub- 

 coriaceous, 2-.3 cm. long, 5-7 mm. wide, revolute-margined, rugose, glabrous 

 and dark-green above, densely brown-scurfy beneath, obtuse at the apex, 

 narrowed at the base, entire, the petioles about 4 mm. long; cymes few-several- 

 flowered, much shorter than the leaves; calyx glabrous, obscurely toothed; 

 corolla white; fruit subglobose, bluish, resinous-dotted, about 5 mm. in 

 diameter. 



Scrub-lands, pine-lands and savannas, Andros. New Providence and Cat Island : 

 Cuban Cays. Referred by Hitchcock, and in Field Col. Mus. Bot. 2: ISO, to C. fulta 

 A. Rich. BOAR-HOG BUSH. 



11. PETITIA Jacq. Enum. 1, 12. 1760. 



Trees or shrubs, with large opposite entire petioled tomentulose leaves, 

 and small axillary cymose-paniculate flowers. Calyx campanulate, 4-toothed 

 or subtruncate. Corolla short-salverform, the limb spreading, 4-cleft, the lobes 

 imbricated. Stamens 4, borne near the top of the corolla-tube, equal; fila- 

 ments very short; anthers ovate. Ovary 2-celled; ovules 2 in each cavity; 

 style 2-cleft at the apex. Fruit a small drupe, the endocarp 2-4-celled. 

 [Commemorates Francois Petit, 1664-1741, a French physician.] Two or 

 three species of the West Indies and Mexico, the following typical. 



1. Petitia domingensis Jacq. Enum. 12. 1760. 



Petitia Poeppigii iSchauer, in DC. Prodr. 11 : 639. 1847. 



A tree, up to '22 m. high, usually much smaller or sometimes a shrub, the 

 slender twigs, the petioles and the inflorescence densely brownish-tomentulose. 

 Leaves elliptic-oblong or elliptic-lanceolate, 7-15 em. long, rather thin, acute or 

 acuminate at the apex, obtuse or rounded at the base, dark green, dull and 

 glabrous or nearly so above, rusty-tomentulose beneath, the slender petioles 

 7 cm. long or less; panicles many-flowered, as long as the leaves or shorter; 

 calyx about 1.5 mm. long; corolla whitish, its tube about twice as long as the 

 calyx, its limb 4-5 mm. broad; flowers fragrant; drupes nearly black, globose 

 to obovoid, 4-5 mm. in diameter. 



Pine-barrens, coppices and scrub-lands, Abaco. Great Bahama. Andros, New 

 Providence, Eleuthera, and Cat Island: Cuba; Hispaniola ; Porto Rico; Jamaica; 

 Cayman Islands. Recorded from St. Croix. PETITIA. BASTARD STOPPER. 



12. PSEUDOCARPIDIUM Millsp. Field Mus. Bot. 2: 181. 1906. 



Shrubs or trees, with opposite petioled simple subcoriaceous, spinulose- 

 <lentate or entire leaves, and small axillary panicled flowers. Calyx campanu- 



