Pvemna] LXXXII. VERBENACEiE 511 



require further study on the spot. They may eventually lorove not to be specij&cally 

 distinct. 



/5. Hairs as a rule not stellate. 



18. p. latifolia, Eoxb,; Wight le. t. 869.— Syn. H. vihurnoldes, Ktirz. Yern. Bahar^ 

 Hind. ] Pedda Nellcikura, Tel. ; Kyetyo^ Burm. Subhimalayan tract, from the Clienab 

 eastwards, ascending to 2,000 ft. Oudh forests. Bengal plain. Western Peninsula, 

 chiefly on the east side. Burma, Upper and Lower. A small or middle-sized deciduous 

 tree, branchlets and young 1. pubescent or velvety, 1. membranous, with a strong un- 

 pleasant smell, generally drying black, blade 3-5, pet. J-f in. long. Corymbs hairy, 

 frequently at the ends of short leafy branchlets, fl. greenish-white, calyx hairy on^ 

 both sides, densely outside, teeth 5, corolla J in. long, very hairy within. A most 

 variable species, P. mncronata, Boxb. (Brandis F. Fl, 866) with acuminate 1. with a 

 cuneate base, may be a distinct species. 19. P. milleflora, Clarke. Assam. Manipur. 

 L. hairy along nerves, pet. 2-3 in. long, fi. od in large corymbs, up to 12 in. diam. 20. 

 P. flavescens, Ham. Sikkim Terai. Dacca. Cliutia Nagpur. L. more or less villous 

 beneath, upjoer side with scattered stiff hairs, blade 5-7, pet. 1 in. long. 21. P. mlcrantlia, 

 Schauer. Silhet. Similar to 20, 1. smaller, ii. minute. 



(c) Calyx equally 4-5-toothed, 1. glabrous or nearly so. 



22. p. glaberrima, Wight Ic. 1. 1484; Bedd. Man. 172. — Syn. P. intBgerrima^ C. B. Clarke. 

 Tinnevelly hills. A shrub, 1. elongate-elliptic, acuminate, blade 6-8, pet. \ in. Corymb 

 broad, minutely pubescent. 23. P. Wightiana, Schauer. Southern portion oi Western 

 Peninsula. L, with few minute hairs, blade 1-3, pet. slender, \ in. long, inflorescence 

 narrow, pyramidal. 



C. Inflorescence corymbiform or pyramidal, 1. usually dentate. 



24 P. "barljata, Wall. Vern. Ganlnla^l^\>.\ Bakav^Lammar^lA.viidL, Subhimalayan 

 tract and outer Himalayan ranges, from the Pu.njab eastwards, ascending to 6,000 ft. 

 Western Duars in Sal forest (H. H. Haines), Assam, Khasi hills. Singbhum. Centr. 

 Prov. Upper Burma. A shrub or small tree, 1. serrate, sometimes entire with only a 

 few teeth towards the tip, ovate, base rounded or cordate, underside minutely pu.bescent, 

 blade 3-6, pet. slender, 1-2 in. long, the fine reticulate veins dark, conspicuous. 

 Cymes trichotomous, compound, dense, clothed with minute simple hairs, calyx-lobes 4, 

 enlarged and libbed in fr., corolla \ in. long. 25. P. esculenta, Eoxb. Assam. Chitta- 

 gong. A short-stemmed shrub, entirely glabrous. L. sharply, usually deeply serrate, 

 5-7 in. long, pet. very short, corymbs dense, globose on short peduncles. 26. P. thyr- 

 soidea, Wight Ic. t. 1485. Palni, Tinnevelli and Travaneore hills. A large shrub or 

 small tree, trichotomous cymes arranged in a terminal woolly thyrsus, calyx hairy, 5- 

 toothed. corolla-tube twice the length of calyx, 



II. Low -andershx-ubSj from a woody rootstock, annual stems with 1. and fl. 

 which are burnt down by the jungle fires of the hot season. 



27. P. pinguis, Clarke. Assam, Khasi hills, Upper Burma. Similar to P. harhata^ 

 Wall. 28. P. amplectens, Walk Pegu , and 29. P. macrophylla, Wall. Manipur, Pegu 

 and Martaban. Simil^- to P. e§c«f?e«^a, Roxb. 30. P. hertoacea, Hoxb. Subhimalayan 

 tract in grasslands from Kashmir eastwards. Singbhum. Manipur. Southern part of 

 Western Peninsula (Bedd.). Annual stems very short, with flat rosettes of 2 or 3 pairs 

 of sessile cuneate pubescent 1., 1-5 in. long, falsely whorled, internodes not developed. 

 PL white, drupe black, globose. 31. P. nana, Collett et Hemsl in Journ. Uinn. Soc. 

 xxviii. 109. Shan hills 8,000 ft. Pegu (D. B. 1858). Internodes developed, annual 

 stems up to 6 in. high with 3-4 pairs of softly tomentose oblanceolate 1., drupe ovoid. 



9. CALLICARPA, Linn. ; Fl. Brit. Ind. iv. 566. 



Shru.bs, generally clothed with soft stellate tomentum. L. simple. FL 

 purple or i*ed, in axillary dichotomous cymes, branches divaricate, bracts small, 

 tomentose. Calyx small, campanulate, minutely 4-, rarely 5-dentate, corolla- 

 tube short, limb spreading, lobes 4, rarely 5, nearly equal, stamens exserted. 

 Fr. a small succulent drupe, the endocarp of 4 distinct 1-seeded pyrenes. 

 Species 30-40. Indo-Malayan region, China, Japan, Australia, Islands of the 

 Pacific, North- and Central- America. 



A. Petiole long, 1. entire, sinuate or slightly dentate. 



1. C. arborea, Roxb. Vern. QMwula^ Kumaon; Gro<?7iZo, Nep. ; Daung 

 satjpya, Lower, SigyC) Upper Burma. 



