Callicarpa. tetrandria monogynia. 395 



9. C. lanceolaria. R. 



Shrubby, hairy. Leaves lanceolar, serrulate, acuminate. 

 Panicles axillary, short-ped uncled, sub-globular. Berries 

 white. 



H. Koamoora. 



A pretty, shrubby species, with narrower leaves than any 

 of the other species I have yet met with in India, they taper 

 most toward the base, are nearly smooth on the upper surface, 

 but very hoary underneath ; as are all the other tender parts. 

 Flowers numerous, minute, purple. 



A native of the forests of Silhet, where it is in flower most 

 part of the year. 



10. C. pentandra. R. 



Shrubby, tender parts mealy. Leaves opposite, with an 

 alternate one between, oblong-, entire, cuspidate. Corymbs 

 axillary. Flowers pentandrous. Stigma from three to four- 

 lobed. 



A native of the Moluccas. 



11. C. purpurea. Juss. 



Shrubby; branchlets and younger parts slightly scaly. 

 Leaves sub-sessile, lanceolate, acuminate, serrate, with 

 sub-entire cuneate base, smooth above, glandular-dotted be- 

 low. Corymbs axillary, very small, dichotoinous. Flowers 

 glandular. 



Porphyra dichotoma. Lour. Cochin Ch. cd. Willd. i. 87. 



A native of China. Introduced in 1812, into the Botanic 

 garden, at Calcutta, where it thrives extremely well, has at- 

 tained a height of from four to six feet, and blossoms from 

 April to September. The berries ripen at the close of the 

 rainy season. 



Shrubby, spreading, with roundish branches, covered with 

 scabrous gray bark. Branchlets very slender, slightly 

 scabrous, and beset with ferruginous stellate and somewhat 

 scaly pubescence ; new shoots almost mealy. Leaves from 



