1. Duranta Plumieri jACQ.; Select. Am., 186, t. 176, fig. 76 (1763); Verb. 

 27 — A shrub. 4-5 M. high; leaves somewhat pubescent or entirely gla- 

 brous; corolla blue-violet, the lobes of the upper lip with dark, that 

 of the lower lip with light lines ; drupe orange-yellow. 



There are many varieties, among which some have white flowers. 



In Herb. Bog. from: Java (EDELINO, Bidara tjina (Meester Cornelis) 

 Batavia, 1863), Siam (ZIMMERMANN n. 159 and 133), Hawaiian Islands 

 (Oahu, CURRAN n. 113). 



Native names: Patjar tjina (EDELINO). 



Distribution: tropical America; imported into and cultivated in 

 tropical Asia, and sometimes escaped. 



8. CALLICARPA L. (auctore Bakh.) 



Gen. Plant. (1737) n. 135; LINN. Gen. Plant. Ed. VI (1764) p. 55; 

 Verb. 45— 92.— Tomex LINN. Diss. Dass. (1747) p. 5, and in Amoen. Acad. I 

 (1749) p. 389.— Spdndylococcù Mitch, in Act. Phys. Med. Acad. Nat. Cur. 

 VIII (1748) p. 2\8.—Johnsonia T. Dale ex MILL. Gard. Diet. Ed. VI (1 752) 

 App. Ib.— Bw cardia (HEIST.) DUHAM. Trait, d. Arbres et Arbust. I (1755) 

 p. Ill pl. 44.— lila ADANS. Farn, 11 (1763) p. 446.— Porphyra LObR. Flor. 

 Coch. I (1790) p. W—Geunsia BL. Cat. Gew. Buitenz. (1823) p. 48; Bl. 

 Bijdr. Flor. Ned. Ind. 14e st. (1826) p. 819 ; Verb. 28— 45.— /o/insonia CATESBY 

 Nat. Hist. Carol., Flor. Bah. II (1733) p. 47 t. 47— Aganon RAFIN. and 

 Amictonis RAFIN. Sylva Tellur. (1838) p. 161. 



Trees or shrubs, with a more or less dense stellate or simple tomen- 

 tum, sometimes glabrous, everywhere more or less glandular-dotted ; leaves 

 usually opposite, often with alternate leaves between two opposite pairs, 

 or in pseudo-whorls, rarely all alternate, simple, margins crenate-serrate, 

 or wholly or almost entire, petioled or subsessile; cymes axillary, di-or 

 trichotomous, long- or short-penducled, rarely subsessile; bracts small, 

 linear ; pedicels very short ; flowers small ; calyx campanulate, rarely 

 tubular, minutely 4-5, rarely 6-8-toothed, unaltered or somewhat enlarged 

 in fruit; corolla with short, almost cylindrical tube, 4-5-, rarely to 

 6-7-lobed, almost regular; stamens 4-5, rarely 6-7, equal, inserted in 

 the lower part of the tube, more or less exserted ; anthers fixed above 

 the middle, glandular-dotted, especially at the backside, cells with parallel 

 fissures, often opened and widened in the upper part only ; style elongated 

 with capitate or subpeltate, more or less 2 - 5 - obscurely Iobed stigma; 

 ovary 2-5-, rarely 6 -8- celled, cells 2-1-ov.uled, more or less perfectly 

 locellated ; fruit drupaceous, globose, with 4-16 one-seeded pyrenes; 

 seeds without albumen. 



Distribution: Tropical Asia, China, Japan, Malay Archipelago, 

 Philippines, Polynesia, Australia, America, East-Africa. 



1. a. Anther-cells opened and widened in the upper part only. Fruit, when ripe red 

 or pink — Style usually more than 0.9 c.M. long; ovary glabrous; leaves often 

 opposite with 1—2 alternate ones between the pairs, sometimes wholly alternate or in 

 pseudo-3-4-leaved whorls, also only opposite, Big or small trees. . 1. C. pentandra. 



