368 LX. VERBENACE^:. [Premna, 



ing shrub in Eastern Bengal and Western India, with glabrous, shining, ovate, 

 long -acuminate leaves, and greenish- white flowers in a terminal corymbose 

 panicle. 6. P. herbacea, Roxb. 1. c. 80, is a small undershrub, common in the 

 grass lands of the sub-Himalayan tract, from Garhwal to Assam, Oudh forests, 

 Tirhoot. A woody perennial root produces annually, after the jungle-fires, a 

 cluster of sessile, cuneate or obovate, pubescent leaves, edge with large triangu- 

 lar serratures, and a terminal, pedunculate, corymbose cyme, shorter than the 

 leaves, with pale-yellow flowers, which open Feb.-April. 



5. CALLICARPA, Linn. 



Shrubs, generally clothed with soft stellate tomentum. Leaves oppo- 

 site, simple. Flowers in axillary dichotomous cymes, with divaricate 

 branches and small tomentose bracts. Calyx truncate, 4- rarely 5-den- 

 tate. Corolla-tube short, limb spreading, lobes 4, rarely 5, nearly equal. 

 Stamens as many as corolla-labes, exserted. Ovary 4-celled, 1 ovule in 

 each cell ; style filiform, dilated and truncate, or shortly 2-lobed. Fruit 

 a small succulent drupe, the endocarp of 4 distinct 1 -seeded pyrenes. 



Clothed with dense woolly tomentum ; leaves crenate . 1. C. macrophylla. 

 Hoary with short stellate hairs ; leaves entire . . 2. C. arborea. 



1. C. macrophylla, Vahl j DC. Prodr. xi. 644 j Eoxb. Fl. Ind. i. 393. 

 Syn. 0. incana, Eoxb. 1. c. Vern. Pattharman, ba-pattra, baunu, Jhelam ; 

 Sumali, Chenab ; Denthar, druss, Eavi \ Daya, Kamaon ; Mathara, mat- 

 tranja, Beng. 



A tall shrub, branches, petioles, and peduncles thickly clothed with 

 tawny or grey woolly tomentum. Leaves lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, 

 rarely ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, crenate, 6-10 in. long, petiole J in., 

 wrinkled, soft pubescent above, floccose-woolly or cottony underneath ; 

 main lateral nerves 12-15 pair. Cymes much branched, with numerous, 

 distinct, small rose-coloured flowers, common peduncle as long as petiole. 

 Corolla-tube barely twice the length of calyx. Siamens much exserted. 



Bengal, Gorakhpur, Oudh, Rohilkhand, extending as far west as Hazara in 

 the sub-Himalayan tract. Ascends to 6000 ft. Burma. China. Fl. May- Jan. 

 In Hazara the heated leaves are applied to rheumatic joints. 



C. tomentosa, Willd. Syn. Roxburghii, Schauer ; DC. Prodr. xi. 640 ; China, 

 differs by long hairs intermixed with the tawny tomentum ; the flowers are in 

 compact globose hirsute heads on the ramifications of the cymes. Has not yet 

 been found in Northern India. 



C. lanata, Linn. Mant. Plant. 331 ; Vahl Symbolee Bot. iii. 13 Syn. C. 

 Wallichiana, Walpers ; DC. Prodr. xi. 641 ; Wight Ic. t. 1480, of Ceylon, South 

 and Western India, white woolly tomentose, has ovate, acuminate leaves, matted 

 underneath with dense white tomentum, 6-12 in. long, entire or slightly crenate, 

 petiole 1-2^ in. long ; flowers pink or pale lilac, peduncle shorter than petiole, 

 corolla more than twice the length of calyx. Will probably be found in the 

 Centr. Prov. 



2. C. arborea, Eoxb. Fl. Ind. i. 390 ; DC. Prodr. xi. 641. Syn. C. 

 lanata, Hook, in Hb. Kew. Vern. GMwala, dera, Kamaon. 



A tree ; branches, petioles, peduncles, and under side of leaves hoary 



