392 TETRANDRIA MONOGYNIA. CalHcarpa. 



erect, two-forked throughout ; every part covered with gray 

 farina. Brant es small. Flowers very numerous, small, pur- 

 ple. Calyx short; border four-sulcated, permanent. C'oro/, 

 tube bent to one side. The other parte 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. pi. ed. Willd. i. G20. 



Shrubby, downy. Leaves ovate, glandular-dentate-senate, 

 downy underneath. Panicles axillary, sub-globular. Stigma 

 bifid. Berries purple. 



CalHcarpa americana. Louriero. Cochin Ch. ed. Willd. i. 

 p. 88. 



This shrub was introduced into the Botanic garden 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 ob- 

 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. Bracles 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. Stiff ma 

 two-cleft. Berry small, round, smooth, deep purple. Seeds 

 four. 



Obs. It differs from C. americana, Willd. in having a wool- 

 ly, toothed calyx, two-lobed stigma and in the form of the 

 leaves. 



