Callicarpa. tetrandria monogynia. 391 



which may be reckoned one-fourth of the whole. Panicles 

 axilhry, solitary, or paired, the largest on a peduncle as long 

 as the petioles, sub-rotund, from six or eight times dichoto- 

 nious, 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- 

 ledons oblong. Radicle oblong, the length of the cotyledons, 

 inferior. 



2. C. lanala. Linn, sp.pl. ed. Willd. i. 620. 



Arboreous, all the young parts mealy. Leaves opposite, 

 oval, entire, downy. Corymbs axillary, dichotomous through- 

 out. Corols oblique. 



Tomex tomentosa. Flor. Zeyl. N. 59. 



A pretty large tree, a native of the Circar mountains, 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 

 shoots somewhat four-sided, and covered with gray farina. 

 Leaves opposite, petioled, ovate, tapering to a point, entire, 

 downy, below whitish with much down ; from nine to ten 

 inches long, and five or six broad. Petioles round, two or 

 threw inches long, covered with down. Corymbs axillary, 



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