Callicarpa. 67 



.greyish or ferruginous, appressed tomentum of stellate 

 hairs; branchlets obtusely quadrangular; feaues subcoria- 

 ceous, lanceolate, base long attenuate, apex acute-attenuate; 

 upper side glabrous, lower one densely greyish tomentose; 

 margins entire or very obscurely denticulate; pairs of 

 nerves 9 — ^15, irregular; 10—18 by 2 — A cM.; petioles 

 1.25—2 cM.; cymes few-fiowered, 1.3^ — 2 cM. long, 2 cM. 

 in diam.; peduncles 0.6 — 0.8 cM., flowers bluish red; 

 calyx campanulate, 0.2 cM., mucronulate, densely stellate- 

 tomentose without; corolla twice as long as the calyx, 

 densely stellate-tomentose without; stamens hardly exserted; 

 filaments 0.4 cM.; anthers oblong, glandular-dotted on 

 both sides; ovary villous; stigma capitate; drupe glabrous, 

 0.25 cM. in diam. 



Distribution: Malay Peninsula. 



The species has a close affinity with C. angusta var. (3, and 

 perhaps it will appear that it is synonimous with it. But it 

 seems to differ from it by the pubescent corolla and the hardly 

 denticulate leaves. 



19. C. rivularis Merr. Phil. Journ. Sci. Bot. VII, 340, 

 (1912). ^ A shrub; branchlets slender, with inflorescences 

 and petioles densely yellowy- white stellately tomentose; 

 leaves lanceolate, chartaceous, acute at base and at apex; 

 margins entire towards the base, serrate towards the top; 

 upper surface glabrous, lower one densely whitish-tomentose; 

 pairs of nerves 9; 10—18 cM. long, P/s— 37? cM. broad; 

 petioles 1 cM.; cymes axillary, 3 cM. in diam.; peduncles 

 as long as^ petioles; calyx 0.2 cM., 4-toothed, densely 

 stellate-hairy without; corolla white, 0.3 cM., 4-lobed, 

 somewhat puberulous without; anthers 0.13 cM., glandular 

 on the backside; drupe glabrous, 0.3 cM. 



Distribution; Palawan. 



In the description we could not discover any point of diffe- 

 rence with our (3-variety of C. angusta, to which species it is 

 related, according to Merrill, but different in the tomentum of 



