Sent to me by Mr Shepherd as a species of Callicarpa, 
which was received by him from China, and which at present 
has reached only to the height of two feet in the stove of the 
Botanic Garden at Liverpool. It appears to me to agree in 
almost every particular with the figure and description of the 
C. longifolia of Lamarck, which that author states to be 
found in Malacca by Sonnerat. Roxburgh's character, 
above referred to, describes the leaves as long-petioled, and as 
downy underneath * : this latter circumstance I find to exist on- 
ly in the young leaves ; in the older foliage, the pubescence, if 
present, is confined wholly to the veins on the under side. The 
plant described in the Flora Indica inhabits Prince of Wales' 
Island. 
Very nearly alHed to the present species, as far as I can 
collect from the characters, are the C.japonica of Thunberg, 
and the C. purpurea of Jussteu, {Poryphyra dichotoma of 
LouREiRO). But the latter, as described by Dr Wallich, 
has leaves only two inches long, while the former has no pu- 
bescence, short stamens and style, and an acute stigma : if, too, 
Thunberg be correct in stating that his C.japonica has 
" filamenta geimini inserta" it probably belongs to an alto- 
gether different genus. 
Fig. 1. Two flowers, removed from the cyme. Fig. 2. Single flower, cut 
open. Fig. 3. Stellated pubescence. — All more or less magnified. 
" I have since ascertained the plant of Dr Roxburgh to be a distinct species, and 
which I have named, in a collection of plants made in Prince of Wales' Island by Mr 
Potts, and which is in the possession of the Horticultural Society of liondon, Calli- 
carpa Koxburgii. 
