CalUcarpa.] cxi. VERBBNACEiE. (C. B. Clarke.) 567 



3-5-lobed mature nearly glabrate, cymes dense stellately tomectose shorter 

 than the petiole. Callicarpa sp. n. 27, Serb. Ind. Or. B. f. cf' T. 



Alpine N.E. Nepal ; Yalloong, alt. 10-11,000 ft., J. D. H. 



A deciduous tree, 16 ft. ; branches thick, stellately tomentose, crowded with leaves 

 at the tips. Leaves 12-15 in. diam., palmately 5-7-nerved, membranous j lobes orate, 

 acuminate, denticulate, stellately hairy on both surfaces when young, mature with 

 some stellate hair along the nerves beneath ; hairs stalked, often with 2 whorls of 

 secondary hairs ; glands scattered ; pet:ole 4-8 in. Peduncles 2i in., often 2 super- 

 posed in each opposite axil ; leaves fallen from the flower-bearing axils in the speoi- 

 ineiis ; cymes 2-4 in. diam., resembling those of C. arborea. Calyx j'j in., funnel- 

 shajed, subtruncate, stellately hairy. Corolla \ in., tubular, nearly glabrous in 

 flower ; lobes 4, short, ovate. Stamens 4. Fruit not seen. 



2. C. arbore^, Boxh. Hort. Beng. 10, and Fl. Ind. i. 390 ; arboreous, 

 leaves ovate to narrowly oblong acute entire or nearly so closely tomentose 

 beneath, peduncles as long as the petioles closely tomentose, fruit purple 

 ultimately black. Wall. Cat. 1826, chiefly; Schauer in DC. Prod/r. xi. 641 ; 

 Brand. For. Fl. S6S ; Kurz For. Fl. ii. 274. 0. tectouaefolia, Wall. Cat. 

 1827. 0. villosa, Boxb. Hort. Beng. I. c. 0. farinosa, Boxh. mss. 



IS. IirniA, in the lower hills, alt. 0-^000 ft., from Kumaon to Assam, common in 

 the Sikkim Terai; Eajmahl. E. Peninsula, from the Khasia Terai and Muueypoor 

 to Singapore. — Distrib. Ava, Sumatra. 



A tree, often 40 ft., with a thick trunk and round head. Leaves usually 6-8 in., 

 base rhomboid, leathery, mature glabrate above ; stellate hairs beneath very close, 

 sessile, persistent, covering the numerous glands.; petiole 1-2 in. Calyx ^j in., sub- 

 truncate, stellately pubescent. Corolla i in., puberulous, lavender or pale purple. 

 Berry ^ in. diam. — Generally to be recognized by the entire leaves with very close 

 persistent hard tomentum beneath ; but the leaves are toothed in Khasian examples 

 collected at Nunklow, and the tomentum is spreading and very woolly on some from 

 the Malay Peninsula. Leaves usually cuneate at base, but rounded in the form C. 

 villosa, Boxb. C. villosa, Vahl, is a doubtfully Indian plant. 



3. C. vestita. Wall. ms. ; arboreous, leaves ovate acute subentire 

 silkily white-tomentose beneath, peduncles as long as the petioles stellately 

 tomentose. C. lanata. Gamble Datyeeling List 60, not of Linn. 0. arborea. 

 Wall. Cat. 1826, ^ar«y.— Callicarpa sp. n. 3 & 4, Serb. Ind. Or. S.f. Sf T. 



Nepal; Noakote, Wallich. Sikkim, alt. 1-4000 ft., in the outer valleys and 

 Terai, frequent ; Merh. Griffith, J. D. S. (Kew Distrib. n. 6042), &e. 



A tree, 30 ft. ; resembling C. arborea. Leaves 4-10 in., base rounded or cuneate ; 

 tomentum beneath of stellate hairs having the secondary fiairs fine, long and white. 

 Inflorescence stellately white or tawny tomentose. Calyx at flower-time nearly 

 g^labrous. — Otherwise resembling C. arborea. 



4. C. lanata, Linn. Mant. 331, not of Schauer, nor of Griff. ; arboreous, 

 leaves ovate or ovate-lanceolate subentire stellately tomentose beneath, 

 peduncles shorter than the petioles furred. VaM Bymb. iii. 13 ; Boxh. Fl. 

 Ind. i. 391 ; Sam. in Trans. Linn. ivii. 251 ; Wall. Cat. 1831 ; Grah. Cat. 

 PI. Bomb. 156 ; Brand. For. Fl. 368 ; Bedd. For. Man. 173, and Anal. PI. 

 21, fig. 6. 0. Tomer, Pair. Suppl. ii. 32. 0. cana, Balz. Sr Oihs. Bomb. 

 Fl. 200, not of Linn. C. Walliohiana, Walp. Bep. iv. 125 ; Schauer in DC. 

 Prod/r. xi. 641 ; Wight HI. t. 173 b, Sg. 6, and Ic. 1. 1480. C. arborea, Miq. 

 in PI. Sohenack. n. 152, not of Boxh. Tomex tomentosa, Linn. Fl. Zeyl. 

 24. Cornutia corymbosa, Lamk. Diet. i. 54. 



i^troughout the Decoan Peninsula and Ceylon, common; ascending to 

 4000 ft. 



A tree, 20-40 ft.; tips of branches cinnamoneous, shaggy and woolly. Leaves 



