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or pseudo-whorls, sometimes pseudo-ternate or even -quater- 

 nate ; petioled, the petioles being joined by a line of hairs ; 

 cymes axillary, rather large, dichotomously branched; calyx 

 5— 8-toothed, rarely 4-toothed; corolla S-— 7-lobed, rarely 

 4-lobed: tube cylindrical or nearly so, glabrous within; 

 stamens 5—7, exserted, rarely 4, inserted in the lower part 

 of the tube; anthers generally glandular on both sides, 

 densier on the backside, rather large, cells with, in the upper 

 part widened, parallel fissures, by which its seems as if they 

 were opening by a hole only; style elongated with capitate 

 or subpeltate stigma, sometimes indistinctly lobed; ovary 

 4—5-, sometimes 3-celled; cells more or less perfectly 

 2-locellated, 2-ovuled; fruit drupaceous, with 6— 12 (-14?) 

 one-seeded pyrenes. 



Distribution: Malacca, Malaya, Philippine Islands, New- 

 Ireland (Neu-Mecklenburg). 



This genus ^) is closely allied to Callicarpa, and this is the 

 cause, that so many authors have ■ confounded the species of 

 one genus with that of the other. Yet the two genera are, 

 examining them exactly, very easily separable, though there 

 are a number of features, which could confuse a superficial 

 examinator. We have tried to separate distinctly the two genera, 

 taking as a criterion the following characteristics, for 



Geunsia. Callicarpa. 



1. Besides the opposite leaves, 1. only opposite leaves are 



there are always alternate present. 



ones; this sometimes gives 



rise to the presence of 



(pseudo-) ternate or -qua- 



ternate leaves. 



') After we had written this explanation, Hallier published the 

 3'd part of his elaboration of the plants of Elbert's Sunda-expedition, 

 in which is dealt with the Verbenaceae. As regards the matter of 

 Callicarpa and Geunsia he expressed, in general, the same opinion as 

 given by us. 



