Callicarpa. | VERBENACER. 275 
on a 4-6 lin. long slender peduncle arising from the axils of the 
leaves; calyx puberulous, about 4 lin. long, shortly 4-toothed ; 
corolla slightly and minutely pubescent outside, the limb 4-cleft ; 
drupes globular, the size of a pepper-kernel or smaller, sappy, 
smooth. 
Has.—Martaban hills. 
4. C. longifolia, Lamk.—<An evergreen shrub, 5-6 ft. high, all 
younger parts mealy-puberulous ; leaves lan ceolate to broadly lanceo- 
3-4 in. long, acuminate, serrate 
mealy-puberulous, afterwards glabrescent except on the stronger 
axillary glabr 
toothed ; corolla glabrous, the limb 4-cleft ; drupes depressed-glo- 
bular, on slender pedicels, about a line thick, glabrous, snow-white. 
M Han.— Apparently not unfrequent from Martaban down to Tenasserim.—FI. 
arch, 
AVICENNIA, L.. 
Calyx divided to the base into 5 distinct segments or sepals. 
Corolla-tube short and ample, the limb 4- (actually 5-) -lobed, the 
Obes nearly equal or the upper lobe usually broader and more or 
ess distinctly notched. Stamens 4, didynamous, inserted in the 
throat, slightly exserted. Ovary 1-celled, with 4 ovules collaterally 
suspended from a central projectingly 4-angular column dividing . 
the ovary into 4 cells. Fruit a compressed capsule, the pericarp 
ing in 2 valves. Seed solitary, erect, without integuments 
(the integuments of the ovule not developed). Embryo with 2 very 
arge cotyledons folded longitudinally ; radicle very hairy ; plumule 
Prominent, germinating before the fruit drops off, as in mangroves. 
—Trees or shrubs, with opposite, simple, leathery leaves. Flowers 
™ small cymes or clusters, axillary or in terminal panicles. 
Leaves usually lanceolate and indistinctly white-tomentose beneath; 
flowers shortly spiked; calyx-lobes 1 lin. long; style very : 
oe RAR a 
Leaves more or less obovate and usually indistinctly tawny-tomen- 
1o8¢ beneath ; flowers in heads; calyx-lobes 2 lin. long; style | 
AS whee onal s sev ecad adione) lode 32-4 fomeeions. 
|. A, officinalis, L.; Bedd. Sylv. Madr. 174, t. 22, f. 2; 
-~Brand. ‘For. Fi. 371 Thamd.-An evergreen tree (25—40+10 
—1+3—4), the young shoots more or less whitish from an 
