105. VERBENACEM. [8. Callicarpa. 



unequally 4-fid. Fruit a drupe with succulent pericarp and 4 hard 

 2-celled, 2- seeded pyrenes. Seeds exalbuminous. 



1. D. Plumieri, Jacq. 



A larg-e shrub or sometimes almost a tree with weeping branches, 

 usually thorny. Leaves obovate or elliptic with cuneate base taper- 

 ing into a short petiole, entire or serrate above the middle, about 1" 

 long. Flowers blue or Avhite, in terminal and axillary sometimes 

 sub-panicled drooping racemes. Calyx teeth triangular- subulate 

 Drupe globose yellow about -25" diam. 

 Very commonly planted and makes an excellent hedge, especially in the damper 

 n"^if-' • ^^■' ^^- ^°^^ "^ *^^ ^^^^- Native of Mexico and the West Indies. 

 D. Ellisia appears to be a white-fld. variety with the branches often unarmed. 



8. CALLICARPA, L. 



Trees or shrubs Avith the young parts stellately tomentose. Leaves 

 usually large. Flowers small, often glandular, in axillary usually 

 corymbose dense peduncled cymes. Calyx very small, 4-lobed. Cor 

 subregular, tubular with 4 (-5) lobes, lilac, purple or red. St. 4-5 

 exserted. Ovary imperfectly 2-celled with long style and capitate 

 sub-entire or 2-lobed stigma. Drupe small, with 1-4 free pyrenes. 



Tree. Leaves entire. Drape purple 1 ai-loren 



Shrub. Leaves crenate. Drupe white \ 2] macrophi/lla. 



1. C. arborea, Hoxh. Bomud, Bodudn, K. ; Dam Kotokoi, -S'. ; liao-odi 

 Kharw. ; Sakaiia, Mai Pah. ; Boro, Or. '^ 



A small or mod. -sized tree Avith compressed 4-angled densely 

 tomentose branchlets, large ovate to ovate-lanceolate or ovate-oblono- 

 acute or sub-acuminate entire leaves .5-5" by 2-7o" to 12" by S-S'*^, 

 densely stellate-tomentose beneath (both sides when young), and small 

 lilac-purple floAvers in 2-chotomous corymbose cymes S-5'' diam. on 

 peduncles 1-2" long which exceed the petioles. Drupe purple. 



In the damper districts and hills of the drier ones. Champaran ' Purneah ' 

 Hills, on north aspects or ravines, in Singbhum, Ranchi, Manbhum and 

 Palamau m Chota Nagpur, but only scattered! Dhadka (Manbhum), IFood ^ 

 Common on the northern slopes of the Parasnath range! Raimahal Hills' 

 frequent ! Bhuyia Hills, Keonjhur, Grieve; Bonai, Cooper ! Mais of Puri frequent ' 

 Fl, Oct. and April-June. Fr. Aug.-Nov. and Dec-Jan. Evergreen. 



Attains 3-4 ft. girth, but of small height, crown spreading. Bark light or sand- 

 coloured ; blaze soft, white with yellowish streaks. L. usually about 6-9'' the 

 .stellate hairs not stipitate nor with a second whorl of branches below the top as in 

 the Deccan 0. lanata (but a specimen from the Puri Hills showed a tendencv 

 towards hairs of this character and C. lanata may occur in Kalahaudi) maro-in 

 rarely slightly toothed, base rounded; sec. n. 8-12 Avith strong scalariform ter- 

 tiarie.s. Petiole -Q-Vo", those of a pair often unequal. Cor. -12" diam Drune 

 •1-"12" diam., seated on the small spreading calyx, finally black. * 



Wood only used for fuel and charcoal. " Growth fast, 5 rings per inch (but pro- 

 bably .slower in our area). Wt. about 35 lbs." Gamble. \ i ^ 



2. C. macrophylla, Vahl. Bundudn, K. -, Buddhi-ghassic', S. ; Mathara, 



A stout shrub Avith the branches, leaves beneath and inflorescence 

 densely stellately woolly. Leaves 5-10" long, elliptic, rarely ovate- 

 lanceolate, long acuminate, crenate or crenate dentate. FloAvers 



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