xcviT. teubexace.t;. 423 



or red ; tube short ; lobes 4, subqiiadrate, spreading. Stamens 4, equal, 

 inserted above the middle of the tube, usually exserted ; anthers 2-celled, 

 the cells parallel. Ovary imperfectly 2-celled ; ovules 2 in each cell ; 

 style linear ; stigma dilated, obscurely 2-fid. Eruit a small globose 

 drupe ; pyrenes 4 or fewer by suppression, 1-seeded. Seeds shortly 

 oblong; albumen 0. — Distrib. Tropical and Subtropical Asia, Malaya, 

 Japan, N, Australia, N. and Central America, W. India; species 30. 



1. Callicarpa lanata, Linn. Mant. v. 2 (1771) p. 331. A tall 

 shrub or sometimes a small tree; bark grey, rough and corky; young 

 branches stout, cylindric, closely covered with a thick easily detachable 

 felt of grey or fulvous stellate hairs. Leaves crowded towards the ends 

 of the branches, 6-9 by 3-4 in., ovate or elliptic-lanceolate, acuminate, 

 entire or toothed, dark-green, rugose, glabrous and shining above, with 

 dense stellate tomentum beneath ; base rounded, cordate or acute ; 

 main nerves 6-9 pairs, impressed above, very prominent beneath, with 

 conspicuous reticulate venation between ; petioles 1-1| in. long, stout, 

 densely tomentose. Flowers sessile, in divaricately branched shortly 

 pedunculate densely stellately tomentose axillary cymes ; bracts scarcely 

 Jjj-in.long, linear. Calyx -^-^ in. long, campanulate, very faintly 4-lobed, 

 densely stellately tomentose. Corolla ^ in. long, reddish-purple, glabrous ; 

 tube -^ in. long ; lobes 4, subequal, subquadrate, rounded. Stamens 

 much exserted ; filaments slender, glabrous : anthers cream-colored, the 

 cells parallel. Ovary and style glabrous. Drupe scarcely -^ in. in diam., 

 globose, black, smooth, shining. Fl. B. I. v. 4, p. 567; Grab. Cat. p. 156 ; 

 Trim. n. Ceyl. v. 3, p. 350 ; Talb. Trees, Bomb. ed. 2, p. 269 ; Woodr. 

 in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 12 (1899) p. 359 ; Watt, Diet. Econ. Prod. v. 2, 

 p. 26. Callicarjm cana, Dalz. & Gibs. p. 200 (not of Linn.). C. Wal- 

 lichiana, Walp. Rep. v. 4, p. 125 ; "Wight, Icon. t. 1480. — Flowers : 

 Dec-Apr. Vern. Aisar. 



KoNKAN : common on the G-hAts, Dahell cf Gibson ; hills east of Panvel, Graham ; 

 Marmagao, Kanit7iar\; Matheran, Cookel Deccan : Khandala, Graliam, Cooke \; 

 Parghat, Graham ; Mahablesliwar, Cooke ! S. M. Country : Castlerock, Woodrow ; 

 Ramghat, Bitchie, 570 ! Kanaka : evergreen forests of N. Kanara Ghats, Talbot. — 

 DiSTRiB. India (W. Peninsula) ; Ceylon. 



The plant hns some repute in native medicine (see Watt, Diet. Econ. Prod. I.e.). 

 The tomentose buds are used as wicks in oil-lamps {Talliot). 



7. TECTONA, Linn. f. 



Trees stellately tomentose. Leaves opposite or whorled, large, petio- 

 late, entire. Flowers small, numerous, in dichotomous cymes arranged 

 in large terminal panicles ; bracts small, narrow. Calyx campanulate, 

 shortly 5-6-lobed, enlarged and becoming bladder-like in fruit, ovoid or 

 urceolate. Corolla white ; tube short ; limb with 5-6 short subequal 

 spreading imbricate lobes. Stamens 5-6, inserted near the base of the 

 corolla, equal, exserted ; anthers ovate or oblong with distinct parallel 

 cells. Ovary fleshy, 4-celled ; ovule solitary in each cell; style linear ; 

 stigma shortly 2-fid. Fruit a drupe enclosed in the enlarged calyx ; 

 endocarp thick, bony, 4-celled. Seeds erect, oblong ; albumeu 0. — 

 DiSTBiB. Species 3 Asiatic, of which 2 are Indian and 1 a native of the 

 Phihppine Islands. 



