€ordia. pentandria monogynia. 595 



Panicles terminal, in the male more divided, pubescent. 

 Flowers small, white. 



Hermaphrodite Flowers on a separate tree. Calyx 

 narrow-campanulate ; month irregularly four or five-tooth- 

 ed, villous on the outside. Corol funnel-shaped. Border 

 four or five-cleft; divisions linear, revolute. Filaments four, 

 or five, shorter than the segments of the border of the corol. 

 Anthers incumbent. Germ superior, ovate, four-celled, with 

 one ovulum in each, attached to the axis. Style twice two- 

 cleft. Stigma rather small, but rounded. Drupes oval, the 

 size of a black currant, smooth, when ripe yellow. Pulp 

 mucilaginous, as in the officinal fruit of C. myxa, one-celled. 

 Nut very hard, ovate, longitudinally perforated through the 

 centre, four-celled. Seed solitary, ovate, &c. &c. almost ex- 

 actly as in Sehestina officinilis, Geert. sem. I. p. 364. t. 76. 

 p. I. 



Male Flowers on a different plant. Calyx and corol as 

 in the hermaphrodite, but more generally divided into four. 

 Filaments generally four, as long as the corol. Germ a sphe- 

 rical, abortive body, without style or stigma. 



Obs. In the early part of my botanical career, a very short 

 description and drawing- of the male plant were sent with my 

 other dispatches of the same nature, to the Honourable the 

 Court of Directors under the name Callicarpa alternifolia. 

 Roxb. JV. 165. 



9. C. angustifolia. R. 



Leaves sub-opposite, lanceolate, scabrous. Panicles ter- 

 minal. Flowers tetrandrous. Style twice two-cleft. Nut 

 four- eel led. 



A native of Mysore, from thence Dr. Buchanan sent the 

 seeds to the Botanic garden at Calcutta, in 1800, and in May 

 1803, the trees were in blossom for the first time. 



Trunk short. Branches numerous, spreading in every di- 

 rection, with their long, slender extremities often drooping. 

 Bark ash-coloured and pretty smooth. Leaves sub-opposite, 



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