Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 803 



Upper surface of leaves hispid-puberulous, lower thinly grey- 



stellate-tomentose .. .. .. . . 6. C. pedunculata . 



Lower surface of leaves sparsely stellate hairy, with many 

 glandular dots ; margins of leaves serrulate ; cymes ronnded, up to 

 2 in, broad .. .. .. ,. . . 7. C longifolia. 



1. Callicarpa AEBOREA, Roxb. Hort. Beng. 10 (1814), and El. Ind. I. 

 390 (1832). A tree reaching 40 ft. in height, with thick trunk and 

 round head ; branches stout ; branchlets thick, obtusely quadrangular, 

 covered with dense grey-tawny, forked, stellate or mealy tomentum, 

 as are the young leaves and inflorescence. Leaves coriaceous ; ovate or 

 elliptic-ovate, acuminate at apex, long acute or cuneate at base ; upper 

 surface w^hen young with mealy soft stellate-tomentum, afterw^ards 

 glabrous, lower closely tawny-stellate tomentose ; margins entire or 

 sometimes distantly denticulate ; 6 to 12 in. long, 2 to 5 in. broad ; mid- 

 rib very stout, much raised beneath ; main nerves stout, 8 to 14 pairs, 

 raised beneath and joined by fairly regular transverse raised nervules, 

 the main nerves starting at an angle of about 55° with the midrib and 

 curving gently to the margin, where they anastomose; petiole stout, 

 1 to 2-5 in. long, channelled above. Cymes very niany-fiowered, widely 

 dichotomously branched many times, reaching 6 in. in length and about 

 5 in. in breadth ; peduncles 1 to 8 in. long ; bracts linear- subulate, 

 •25 in. long or less ; pedicels very short ; flowers red or purple. Calyx 

 •05 in. long, truncate and minutely 4-toothed at mouth, glabrous within. 

 Corolla-tube -015 in. long, puberulous without ; lobes 4, reflexed, sub- 

 quadrate, as long as tube, villous without. Stamens long, exsert ; anthers 

 glandular-punctate on the back. Ovary villous; style much exsert, bent 

 outwards, enlarged upwards ; stigma peltate at first, then broadly funnel- 

 shaped. Drupe ^15 to -Sin. in diam., succulent, purple, ultimately black ; 

 pyrenes 4 or less. Wall. Cat. 1826 chiefly. Schauer in DC. Prodr. XI. 

 641; Brandis For. Fl. 368 ; Kurz For. Fl. II. 274 ; Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. 

 Br. Ind. IV. 567 ; Prain Beng. Plants 827. C. tectonafolia, Wall. Cat. 

 1827. 



Kedah ; at Campong Yan, Bidley 5607. Penang : Tanjong Bunga, 

 Curtis 699 ; Batu Gaja jungles, Deschamps. Peeak: Wray 1824, 3957 ; at 

 Bruas Dindings, Bidley 7179 ; Scortechini; King's Collector 972 (jxirt). — 

 DiSTEiB. India (Kumaon to Assam, SonthalParganas. ChotaNagpore, 

 Eastern Bengal),' Burma, Sumatra {Teysmann 4388 ; Forhes 1530, 2601). 



Vae. villosa, Roxb. Hort. Beng. 10 (species). Leaves 6 to 8 in. long, 

 3-5 to 4-5 in. broad, ovate, caudate-acuminate at apex, rounded and 

 then sHghtly decurrent at base. Tomentum of branchlets, young 

 leaves, and inflorescence very thick and pale, chiefly consisting of 



