806 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



short, nearly glabrous but with a few stellate hairs and minutely 

 glandular-punctate, very shortly 4-toothed. - Corolla twdce as long as 

 calyx, -1 in. ; lobes rounded, sparsely stellate-pubescent and glandular- 

 punctate. Stamens long exsert ; filaments slender ; anthers small ; the 

 connective glandular-punctate. Ovary rounded, very glandular ; style 

 very long, twisted; stigma peltate, large. Drupe purple, small, -075 to 

 •1 in. in diam., nearly globose ; pyrenes 4. Schauer in DC. Prodr. XI. 

 641 ; Benth. Fl. Hongk. 270 ; Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. IV. 568. 

 G. 7iudiflora, Hook, and Arn. Bot. Beech. Voy. 206, t. 46. 



Singapore : near the Botanic Gardens, Murton 87 ; Ridley 6884 

 cult. ! — DisTRiB. Tenasserim (?) [Falconer) ; Southern China. 



5. Callicabpa cana, Linn. Mant. 198 (1771). A shrub ; branchlets, 

 leaves beneath, and inflorescence covered with a down of whitish or grey 

 or cinnamomeous stellate hairs ; branchlets obtusely quadrangular. 

 Leaves membranous; ovate, ovate-elliptic or ovate-lanceolate, shortly 

 acuminate at apex, cuneately attenuate at base ; upper surface stellate- 

 tomentose when young, afterwards glabrous, shining and dark-coloured, 

 glandular-punctate ; lower more or less whitish-grey stellate-tomentose, 

 sometimes glabrescent, sometimes rugose, but more usually softly and 

 conspicuously hairy, glandular-punctate beneath the tomentum ; margins 

 glandular-serrate, except at the cuneate base; 4 to 7 in. long, 2 to 3 in. 

 broad ; midrib rather slender, pubescent above ; main nerves 10 to 12 

 pairs, impressed above, slightly raised beneath, starting at an angle of 

 40° to 45° wdth the midrib and curving upwards to the margin, joined 

 by regular transverse nearly parallel nervules ; reticulations netted, 

 impressed above; petiole -25 to -75 in. long, upper part bordered by the 

 decurrent margins of the blade. Cymes many-flowered, rounded, 

 scarcely longer than the petioles, dichotomous ; peduncles about -25 in. 

 long ; bracts linear-subulate, very small ; pedicels very short ; flowers 

 pale-red. Calyx densely white-stellate-tomentose without, glabrous 

 within, -05 in. long ; teeth very minute. Corolla campanulate; tube 

 glabrous, "075 in. long; lobes rounded, -025 in. long, ■ slightly white- 

 villous without. Stamens inserted close to the base of the tube; fila- 

 ments much exsert, twisted, -15 in. long ; anthers -02 in. long ; the 

 connective glandular-punctate. Ovary somewhat depressed; style 

 decurved, often twisted, as long as filaments ; stigma funnel-shaped. 

 Drupe globose, under -1 in. long in diam., purple ; pyrenes 4. Vahl Symb. 

 III. 12 ; Eoxb. Fl. Ind. I. 392 ; Wall. Cat. 1834 ; Blume Bijdr. 817 ; 

 Dene in Nouv. Ann. Mus. III. 401; Schauer in DC. Prodr. XI. 643; 

 Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. II. 885 ; Benth. Fl. Austral. V. 56 ; Clarke in Hook, 

 f. Fl. Br. Ind. IV. 568. C. tomentosa, Lamk. Diet. I. 562. C. americana, 

 Lour. Fl. Cochinch. 70, not of Linn, C. adenanthera, Br. Prodr, 513, 



