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Callicarpa tenuifolia Champion in Hooker's Jour. Bot. & Kew Gard. Misc. V. 

 135 (1853). — Walpers, Ann. V. 709 (1858). 



Callicarpa purpurea? Van Houtte in Fl. des Serr. XIII. 127, fig., t. 1359 (non 

 Jussieu) (1858). — Lemaire in III. Hort. VI. t. 202 (1859). — Greenland in 

 Rev. Hort. 1859, 106, fig. 24-25. —Gard. Chron. 1859, 56, fig. — Herincq in 

 Hort. Frang. 1861, 11, t. ^.—Garden, XXIII. 540, t. 392 (1883). 



Hongkong: C TFng/ii (No. 380); C.Ford. Yunnan: Mengtsze, woods, A. 

 Henry (Nos. 9412, 9412°'; shrub 1.25 m., flowers purple, fruits purple); Salwin 

 River valley, near TaU, alt. 2000 m., October 1914, C. Schneider (No. 3161; shrub 

 2 m. tall, fruit red). 



The Yunnan specimens agree with those from Hongkong except that the pubes- 

 cence on the upper surface of the leaves is shorter and denser. 



Callicarpa rubella, var. Hemsleyana Diels in Bot. Jahrb. XXIX. 548 (1900). 



Szech'uan: Nanch'uan, Ta'u-chia-wan, August 1891, A . von Rosthorn (No. 390) ; 

 without precise locality, alt. 900 m., June 1903 (Veitch Exped. No. 4318; bush 

 2 m., flowers lilac). 



This variety differs from the type of the species only in the slighter pubescence of 

 the leaves and in their somewhat coarser serration. In Wilson's specimen, how- 

 ever, the under surface of the leaves is much more densely pubescent than in Rost- 

 horn's specimen, but their dentation is much coarser and very unequal, the largest 

 teeth being 6-8 mm. long and bearing from 1 to 3 small teeth near the base; the 

 leaves measure up to 18 cm. in length and to 10 cm. in width. 



Callicarpa dichotoma Raeuschel, Nomencl. Bot. ed. 3, 37 (nomen nudum) 

 (1797). — K. Koch, Dendr. II. 336 (1872). 



Porphyra dichotoma Loureiro, Fl. Cochin. 70 (1790). 



Callicarpa purpurea Jussieu in Ann. Mus. Paris, VII. 69 (1806). — Schauer in 



De Candolle, Prodr. XI. 645 (1847). — Miquel in Ann. Mus. Lugd.-Bat. 



II. 98 (1866); Prol. Fl. Jap. 30 (1866). — Franchet & Savatier, Enmn. Fl. 



Jap. I. 358 (1875). — Franchet in Mem. Soc. Sci. Nat. Cherbourg, XXIV. 240 



(Cat. PI. Tche-fou) (1882). — Maximowicz in Bull. Acad. Sci. St. Petersbourg, 



XXXI. 78 (1886); in Mel. Biol. XII. 509 (1886). — Hemsley in Jour. Linn. 



Soc. XXVI. 254 (pro parte) (1890). — Schneider, III. Handb. Laubholzk. II. 



593, fig. 385 m. (1911). — Dunn & Tutcher in Kew Bull. Misc. Inform, add. 



ser. X. 202 (Fl. Kwangtung & Hongk.) (1912). 

 Callicarpa gracilis Siebold & Zuccarini in Abh. Akad. Miinch. IV. pt. 3, 154 



{Fl. Jap. Fam. Nat. II. 30) (1846). 

 Callicarpa japonica, var. angustifolia Savatier, Livres Kwawi, 78 (1873). 



Kwangtung: "secus fl. West River, prov. Canton," July 1872, H. F. Hance (No. 

 335). Fokien : Dunn's Exped. to central Fokien, April to June 1905 (Hongkong 

 Herb. No. 3383). Chekiang: Ningpo, 1908, D. Macgregor; near Hanchou, June 

 1907, F. N. Meyer (No. 425). 



JAPAN. Hondo : prov. Musashi, Yokohama, 1862, C. Maximowicz (Iter II.); 

 Omiya, June 18, 1911 (Herb. K. Sakurai). Kyushu : Nagasaki, 1862, R. Oldham 

 (No. 628). 



This species is closely related to C. japonica Thunberg, but can be distinguished 

 from it by the young branchlets being slightly grooved or obscurely angled, by the 

 smaller, less acuminate leaves with fewer teeth pointing more or less forward, by 

 the distinctly supra-axillary slender-stalked inflorescence, and by the smaUer 

 flowers with the anthers dehiscent to the base. It is of more southern distribution 

 and seems to be confined to southeastern China and southern Japan, where it reaches 

 Yokohama. 



