Callicarpa. 53 



dense rust-coloured hairs; leaves opposite, oblong or ovate 

 or elliptical-oblong, subcoriaceous, 25 cM. long, 12 cM. 

 wide or less, petioles 1 — 2 cM., hairy, apex long caudate- 

 acuminate, base rounded or acute, margins entire; upper 

 side hirsute with simple hairs and papils, lower side rather 

 densely stellate-tomentose ; nerves on either side of the 

 midrib 9—12; cymes densely stellate-tomentose, fascicu- 

 late, in the axils of fallen leaves, 2— 2V2 cM. long; 

 flowers glabrous; calyx 0.3 cM. long, 0.25 cM. wide at 

 the top, 4-toothed; corolla 0.7—0.8 cM. long with 4, 

 sometimes 5 rounded lobes, each 0.3 cM. long; stamens 

 4, sometimes 5, filaments 0.5 cM., anthers 0.3— 0.35 cM.; 

 stigma ± 4-lobed; fruit globose, 0.5 cM. in diam. with 

 4 pyrenes. 



Distribution: Basilan (Philippines). 



This plant is nearly related to Geunsia Cumingiana var. (3, 

 e, g. by its sometimes 5-merous flowers. 



3. C. rubella Lindley in Bot. ' Reg., t. 883, (1839) i); 

 Schau., DC, Prodr. XI, 645; Elbert, Meded. 's Rijks- 

 Herb. Leiden no. 12; Forbes et Hemsley, Fl. Sin. II, 

 254; Hook, f., Fl. Br. Ind. IV. 569; Kuntze Rev. Gen. 

 Plant. I. 503; Maxim. Bull. d. I'Ac. Imp. d. Sc. de St. 

 Pet. XXXI. 75; H. J. Lam in Hall, f., Med. 's Rijks 

 Herb. no. 37, 34. — C. sessili folia Wall. Cat. no. 

 1837 (1828). — C. tenuiflora Champ, ex Benth. in 

 HooA:. Kew Journ. V. 135 (1853). - ? C. violacea 

 Korth. see: Korthals. Verband over de Natuurl. Gesch. 

 der Ned. O. I. bezittingen 1839— '42. Botanie; nomen 

 nudum? — An erect shrub or little tree; young parts and 

 inflorescences with a thin woolly texture of stellate hairs; 

 leaves with rather deeply cordate base, subsessile, from 



1) We could not find the reason why C. rubella Lindl. should have 

 the priority above C. sessilifolia Wall, but retained the first name, 

 nevertheless, since we found that all authors use it. 



