Callicarpa. 75 



Philippines (Luzon!, Negros!), Bismarck-arch. (New-Ireland, 

 Hermit-isl. !) , Palau-isl. !, Marianne-isl.!, Caroline-isl. ! , 

 Bourbon (Hallier.) 



In our opinion, C. carta is a very polymorphous species, the 

 varieties of which show an often uninterrupted series of transi- 

 tory forms between each other. Though there are certain species, 

 the affinity of which with C. cana is evident and even close, 

 their general habit makes them distinctly different from the 

 present species, the varieties of which are conform in habit, 

 the length of cymes and peduncles, and the size of the leaves. 



22. C. megalantha Merrill, Phil. Journ. Sc. Bot. X, 

 71 (1915). — A tree, 10 M. high; branchlets, cymes and 

 petioles, brown or grey stellate-hairy, densely glandular.; 

 leaves oblong, or oblong-ovate, subcoriaceous, base acute, 

 attenuate, apex acuminate, margins entire, upper side 

 somewhat stellate-hairy when young, adult glabrous, lower 

 side stellately pubescent, glandular; nerves densier hairy, 

 9 on each side of the midrib; 12^16 cM. long, 5—6 cM. 

 wide, petioles 2^2 Va cM.; cymes in the upper axils, 

 7—8 cM. in diam.; peduncles 8 cM.; flowers white, bracts 

 oblanceolate or spathulate; calyx 0.3 cM., 4-toothed; 

 corolla somewhat glandular, 0.6^ — 0.7 cM., lobes 0.3 — 0.35 

 cM. with lines of stellate hairs; stamens 0.7—0.8 cM., 

 with glandular anthers; ovary densely glandular. 



Distribution: Luzon. 



Its affinity is with C. subglandulosa; it has, however, leaves 

 with an attenuate base, whilst C. subglandulosa has leaves with 

 ■ a somewhat rounded base. 



23. C. longipetiolata Merrill, Phil. Gov. Lab. Bur. 

 Bull. XXIX, 47 (1905). — A tree; branchlets subtetra- 

 gonous, with cymes and petioles ferruginous-tomentose 

 or -subtomentose; leaves coriaceous or thickly char- 

 taceous, ovate or oblong-ovate, base somewhat rounded 

 or subacute, or acute, apex acute or acuminate, entire, 

 upper side, when young stellate-hairy, adult glabrous, 

 lower side densely yellow-brown tomentose; nerves 7 — 9 



