Callicafpa. teteandria monogynia, 405 



bruised and applied to the skin, it soon raises blisters ; for which 

 purpose ihe natives often use it. As a stimulant it promises to be 

 a medicine possessed of very considerable powers. 



CALLICARPA. Schreb. Gen. N. 175. 



Cali/x four-toothed. Corol one-;>€talled, tubular, four-parted. 

 Germ four-celled, cells one-seeded; ovula attached to the middle of 

 the axis. Berry four-seeded. Embryo erect, and furnished with 

 a perisperm. 



1. C. arborea. R. 



Arboreous. leaves long-petioled, oblong, ventricose, tapering 

 much toward both ends, entire, hairy underneath- Panicles axillary, 

 sub-globular, throughout dichotomous. 



A stout tall tree ; a native of Chittagong.* Flowers at various 

 times through the year. 



Trunk nearly erect, and in trees nine years old, thirty-three inch- 

 es in circumference four feet above the surface of the soil. Branch- 

 es spreading. Branchlets obtusely four-cornered, and mealy. — 

 Leaves opposite, long-petioled, oblong, ventricose, tapering equally 

 at each end, entire, smooth above, hairy underneath, while young 

 and unexpanded very mealy on both sides ; length from six to twelve 

 inches, petiole included, which may be reckoned one-fourth of the 

 whole.— Pome /fs axillary, solitary, or paired, the largest on a pedun- 

 cle as long as the petioles, sub-rotund, from six or eight times dicho- 

 tomous, all the ramifications somewhat four-cornered and mealy. 

 — P/offi'er5 small, very numerous, lively purple, or lilac, small, rather 

 oflFensive.— LVflc/es minute.— Cfl/yr companulate, obscurely four- 

 toothed, mealy on the outside.— Coro/ with the tube much longer 

 than the calyx, one of the segments of its border smaller. -Fita- 

 merits twice the length of the corol. Anthers brown.— Gaw supe- 

 rior, round, four-celled, with one ovula in each, attached to the 

 middle of the axis. Style as long as the stamens, and bent in art 

 opposite direction. Stigma headed — Berry superior, round, pohsh- 

 • U is yery coromou also about Katmandvi in Nepala.-N. W. 



