410 "tETRANBRlA MONOGYNTA. CulUcarpa. 



1 1 . C. purpurea, Juss. 



Shrubby; hranchlets and younger parts slightly scaly. lueates 

 S!ib-sessile, lanceolate, acuminate, senate, with sub-entire cuneate 

 base, smooth above, g'andulai-ilotted below. Corywi^^s axillary, very 

 sjuall, dichotom^us ; /?orc'-'/-s ^rUindiilar. 



Porpht/ra dkholoma. Lour. Cochuich. ed. Tf'dJd. i. 87. 



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

 a' Cilcntta, where it thrives extremely well, has attair.ed a hei^^ht of 

 tV >in four to six feet, and blossoms from April ta September. Tlie 

 berries ripen ai the close of the rainy season. 



Shurb'iy, spreading, vvitii roundish branches, covered with sca- 

 brous ^'lay bark, Bniiich/ets very slender, slightly scabrous, and 

 beset wiui ieirnginous stellate and somewaai scaly pnbescence ; new 

 shoots almost mtuly. — Leaves from lanceolar to oval, two inches 

 Ion"-, tapeiing at both ends, but more so at the base, and only ihe.re 

 entire ; the rest of the margin serrulate ; without any hair or down, 

 but'sealious b^low, from a great number of minute brown shining 

 glandular dots which impart on being rubbed, a faintly aromatic smell; 

 nerves and ribs elevated and slightly scaly. — Fetioh very short.— 

 Cormnhs axillary, or rather supra-axillary, small, round, two or three 

 limes dirhotomous, many times shorter than the leaves ; peduncles 

 short, divaricate, beset with mealy pubescence, with minute lanceo- 

 late scales under each sub-division.— I'luzcers fragrant, purple, mark- 

 ed with glandular dots. — Calijx turbinate with very small obtuse 

 teeLn.— Ccro/ about three times longer than the calyx, infundibuli- 

 forni ; lacinice oval, obtuse. — FUamaits almost twice as long as the 

 coiul'a, purple; «y////ers large, orange-coloured, covered with many 

 j;landalar dots. — .S7/^???« sub-capitate, elevated ; bove the antliers. — > 

 Jjerri/ very small, pmple, at last red, with one or two fertile seeds. 



()fiS. 1 cannot but consider this as Loureiro's plant quoted above, 

 which Jussieu has justly placed among the genus Cal/icarpa. It 

 seems to be nearly allied to C. japonka, but differs chielly in want- 

 ing the smootiniess, the short stamina and pistillun), and the acute 

 stigma of thu latter. Its flowers are besides of a beautiful purple 



