Callicarpa.] VEEBEXACEJE. 219- 



Leaves entire, finely tomentose beneath ; 



drupes purple, beooniing black when ripe. 



— A small tree . . . . . 1. C. auborea. 



Leaves closely cronato, stol lately tomentose 



beneath, drupes white. — A shrub , . 2. C. macrophylla. 



1. C. arborea, Roab. Hort. Beng. 10: Fl. hid. i, 390 ; Brandt* For, 

 F1.36S; Ind. Pratt 511; F. B. I. iv. 567 : Watt E. D; Gamble Man. lad. 

 Timb. 525 ; Prain Beng. PI. $27. — Vera. Ghiwala (Kumaon). 



A small tree, up to 40 ft. high ; trunk stont, with grey soft bark. Leaves 

 coriaceous, 6-8 in. long, ovate to narrowly oblong, acute, usually quite 

 entire, base cuneate ; upper surface glabrate when mature, densely 

 clothed beneath with persistent tomentum covering numerous glands ; 

 petioles 1-2 in. long. Peduncles as long as the petioles, closely 

 tomentose. Calyx ^ in. long, subtruncate, stellately pubescent. 

 Corolla ± in. long, pale-purple. Drupes | s in. in diam., purple, turning 

 black when ripe. 



Sub-Himalayan tracts of North Oudh, where it rarely grows higher than 

 20 ft. Flowers April — June. Distrib. Lower hills of Kumaon up to 

 4,000 ft. above sea-level and eastwards to Sikkim. Assam and theKhasia 

 Hills ; also in Bengal, extending to Burma and Sumatra. The light- 

 coloured wood is hard and close-grained and takes a good polish. The 

 aromatic bitter bark is used in skin-diseases. 



2. C macrohylla, Vahl Symb. Hi, 13, t. 53 ; Roxb. Fl. Ind. i, 393; 

 Royle III. 299 ; Brandts For. Fl. 369 • Ind. Trees. 512; F. B. I. iv, 568 ; 

 Watt E. D.; Kanjilal For. Fl. 263; Gamble Man. Ind. Timb. 525 ; Collett 

 Fl Bind. 3W ; Prain Beng. PI. 828; C. incana, Roxb. Fl. Ind. i, 

 393.— Vera. Day a. 



An erect shrub, 4-8 ft high ; branches virgate, usually shaggy as well as 

 the tomentose tips. Leaves 5-9 in. long, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, 

 acuminate, base cuneate or rounded ; upper surface wrinkled, glabrate 

 when mature, white-tomentose beneath with compound stellate 

 hairs ; main lateral nerves 12-16 pairs ; petiole J-J in. long. Flowers 

 hardly $ in. long, crowded in axillary peduncled globose cymes 1-3 

 in. across ; peduncles shorter than the petioles. Calyx less than 7 ' 5 

 in. long, stellate-hairy; lobes minute, triangular. Corolla rcse- 

 coloured ; lobes subequal, spreading. Drupes white. 



Dehra Dun. in swampy places, and eastwards along the Sub-Himalayan 

 tracts of Ruhilkhand, N. Oudh and Gorakhpur. Flowers cbkfly 

 during the rainy season. Distrib. Bengal plain ; W. Himalaya flora 

 Kashmir eastwards, ascending to 6.000 ft.: also in Assam and Pegu. 

 The leaves applied hot are said to relievo rheumatism. 



5. TECTONA, Linn, f.; Fl. Brit. Ind. iv, 570. 



Trees, itellately tomentose. Leaves large, opposite or whorled, 

 petioled, entire. Mowers many, in 2rcnoionious cymes forming large 



