568 cxi. VERBENACE^. (C. B. Clarke.) [Callicarpa. 



4-8 in., base cuneate rounded or subcordate; tomenturn beneath of stalked hairs 

 often with several whorls of secondary hairs, usually dense, in a few examples from 

 Cochin thin but of similar structure. Calyx at flower-time stellately hairy. Other- 

 wise much resembling C. arborea and Hookeri. The leaves vary from subcordate 

 orbicular cuspidate to oblong and acuminate at both ends. The nature of the hairs 

 appears absolutely constant. C. lanata, Griff. NotuL iv. 173, and Ic. PI. Asiat. t. 447 

 from Bhamo, has 5 stamens. 



5. C. macrophylla, Vahl Symb. iii. 13, t. 53 ; shrubby, leaves ovate or 

 ovate-lanceolate closely crenate densely persistently stellate-tomentose 

 beneath, peduncles short, berry white. Roxb. FL Ind. i. 393 ; Wall. Cat. 

 1832; Schauer in DC. Prodr. xi. 644; Benth. FL Hongk. 270; Brandis 

 For. FL 368 ; Kurz For. FL ii. 274. C. incana, Roxb. I. c. C. Boxburghii, 

 Wall. Cat. 1833, partly. C. cana, Gamble Darjeeling List 60, and Indian 

 Timbers 283, not of Linn. Callicarpus sp., Jones in As. Research, iv. 233. 



Throughout N. and E. INDIA, ascending to 6000 ft. in the W. Himalaya ; from 

 Kashmir to Assam and Pegu : abundant in Bengal Plain. ? DECCAN PENINSULA. 



A shrub, 3-8 ft. ; trunk hardly any, branches wand-like, usually shaggy as well as 

 tomentose at the tips. Leaves 4-7 in., acuminate, base rounded or cuneate, mature 

 glabrate above, tomentose with compound stellate hairs beneath ; petiole $-\ in. 

 Peduncles usually shorter than the petioles; cymes 1-3 in. diam., globose. Calyx 

 scarcely 55 in. long, stellately hairy at flower-time, lobes small triangular or hardly 

 any. Anthers small, ovate. There is only one example of this from the Deccan, 

 marked as communicated by W. Barclay from Malabar. From Wight and Beddome's 

 silence it may be doubted if it is wild there. Rheede Hort. Mai. 4, t. 60, usually 

 quoted as C. macrophylla^ looks as like C. lanata, but may not be a Callicarpa at 

 all. Wall. Cat. 1833 type sheet is the true C. Roxburghii (Schauer 1. c. 640), a non- 

 Indian plant. The typical C. macrophylla, Vahl, has ovate leaves, somewhat obtuse 

 at base, thickly white-tomentose beneath. This is common in and near the hills. 

 Roxburgh's C. incana is the less showy form, common in Bengal Plain (as he truly 

 says), with the leaf-base often cuneate. 



VAB. Grffithii ; much branched, leaves smaller fuscous-woolly obscurely stellate 

 beneath ultimately glabrate. Bhotan; Griffith (Kew Distrib. n. 6041). Differs a 

 good deal in habit from C. macrophylla, but connected by E. Nepal specimens collected 

 by Sir J. D. H. 



VAE. sinensis; leaves oblong-lanceolate closely denticulate, peduncles longer than the 

 petioles, anthers oblong larger. Canara ; Gibson. Calcutta; cult. Distrib. China. 

 Branches upwards dense with leaves. Teeth of the leaves with minute black glandular 

 points. Calyx in flower stellately tomentose, soon nearly glabrate ; teeth triangular, 

 in fruit sometimes longer than the tube. Probably a cultivated plant : it seems as 

 near to C. Reevesii as to C. macrophylla. 



6. C. Reevesii, Wall. Cat. 1830; shrubby, leaves elliptic-lanceolate 

 closely crenate mature glabrate above densely stellate-tomentose beneath, 

 peduncles longer than the petioles, cymes somewhat lax stellately tomentose, 

 calyx at flower-time nearly glabrous. Schauer in DC. Prodr. xi. 641 ; 

 Benth. FL HongTc. 270. C. nudiflora, HooJc. et Arn. Bot. Beech. Voy. p. 206, 

 t. 46. 



TENASSERIM (?) ; Falconer. SINGAPOEE; Murton. DISTEIB. S.China. 



May be a cultivated plant ; it is very near C. macrophylla. The leaves are very 

 handsome, dark above, white tomentose beneath ; the anthers are nearly as of 

 C. macrophylla var. sinensis. 



7. C. cana, Linn. Mant. 198 ; shrubby, leaves broadly elliptic shortly 

 , acuminate at both ends sharply crenate- serrate mature glabrate above 



densely stellate-tomentose beneath, peduncles very short, calyx in fruit 

 stellate-tomentose. Vahl Symb. iii. 12 ; Roxb. FL Ind. i. 392 ; Wall. Cat. 



