28 Geunsia. 



inflorescence, 19 cM. long, 20 cM. wide; calyx with 

 nearly cylindrical tube, 5-ribbed, with 5 subulate, abrupt 

 teeth; softly hairy, glandular; tube 0.5 cM., teeth 0.1 cM.; 

 inner side glabrous; corolla with cylindrical tube (0.7—0.8 

 cM.), 2-lipped; outer side softly hairy; lobes 0.35 cM., 

 the larger 0.5 cM., lower side softly hairy, upper side 

 moreover with long glanduliferous hairs; inner side of 

 tube glabrous; stamens 4, short, included, subdidynamous ; 

 style shorter than the corolla-tube, with club-shaped 

 stigma; ovary glabrous. 



Java: in H. L.-B. sub no. 908.265-1195. - Elbert 

 no. 338, Mount Lawu near Ploasan, Madiun, 800—1000 

 M., flow, in Oct.— Nov. 1907. 



Caroline-Islands: Schnee, Ponape, in H. Ber. 

 without nr. 



Distribution: tropical America; imported into and cul- 

 tivated in tropical Asia, and sometimes escaped. 



Tribe II. VITICOIDE^. 



Subtribe A. Callicarpe.^. 



VIII. GEUNSIA Blume. Cat. Gew. Buitzg. 11, 48, 

 (1823) and Bijdr. 819 (1826); Benth. and Hook.. Genera 

 PI. II, 2, 1150; Engl. u. Pranti. Nat. Pfl. fam. IV, 3a, 

 165; HooA:. f. Fl. Br. Ind. IV, 566; Kootders en Valeton, 

 Bijdr. Booms. Java, no. 7, 172; King and Gamble, Journ. 

 As. Soc. Bengal, LXXIV, 4, 800; Hasskad, 2^ Cat. 

 's Lands PI. tuin Btz., 136; Hall f., Med. 's Rijks Herb. 

 Leid. no. 37, 23. — Shrubs or small trees; tomentum stellate 

 or simple; leaves simple, entire or nearly so, opposite, always 

 with alternate leaves between the often anisophyllous pairs 



