Callicarpa. tethaxoria monogynia. 407^ 



Moluccas in 179S, and in three years had attained to the height 

 of fron) four to eight feet high, considerably ramous, with the young 

 parts downv, and the ligneous ones covered with smooth, pale ash- 

 colonred bark. Th( y are in blossom in March and April chietly, 

 ,thougli more or less the whole year. 



Leaves opposite, short-petioied, from broad cordate to oblonf, 

 reticulated with margins glandular-denlate-serrate ; upper side soft 

 and of a deep green colour, but very downy, and pale underncaih, — • 

 Cymes axillary, dichotuuTJUs, scarcely longer than the petioles vil- 

 lous. — Flowers numerous, small, pale red colour. — Bractes subulate 

 caducous. — Cali/c woolly, four-toothed. — Carol companulate; divi. 

 sions sub-cordate. — Filaments longer than the corols, and insetted 

 into the bade of its tube, ascending.— S(y/e declined, length of the 

 filaments. Stigma two-cleft. — Berry small, round, smooth, dee», 

 j)urpte ; seeds four. 



Obs. It difteis from C. amerkana, TJilld. in having a woolly 

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



4. C. incana. R. 



Shrubbv, young shoots hoary. Leaves haceolate, obtusely serru- 

 late, tine- and entire-pointed, hoary ui.derneath. 



Mashandaii A^iat. lies, iw 233. 



Beng. M/nt/na, Mu'dvuwyt. 



A stout shru' , with all the tender parts and the under surface of 

 the leaves densely clothed with long, soft, white, stellate pubescence: 

 common in the vicinity of Calcutta, where it is in flower and seed 

 nearly the whole year. 



1 long considered this to be Vahl's macrophylla, but on rearing 

 what I also took for the same species from Silhet and Chittagong^ 

 in the Botanic Garden, I could plainly observe a striking difference 

 when growing near each other, and as the Chittagong and Silhet sort 

 agrees much better widi Vahl's figure and description, I must con- 

 sider it to be his macrophylla. In the Calcutta plant, which I now call 

 incana, the leaves are never so broad in proportion to their length, 



