evil. VERBENACE^E. 
614 
[Geunsia. 
3)-celled; ovules 2 in a cell. Drupe small, globose; pyrenes 5 to 10. 
Species 3 to 4, Malay Peninsula and Archipelago. 
(1) G. farinosa Bl. Bijdr. 819; Gamble, l.c. 800. 
A handsome tree about 60 ft. tall, wide-branched, branches 
covered with stellate mealy tomentum. Leaves coriaceous ovate 
or elliptic cuspidate, base round or shortly narrowed, mealy 
tomentose above when young and always beneath, 5 to 9 in. 
long, 3 to 4 in. wide ; petioles 1 in. long. Cymes 1*5 to 3 in. across. 
Flowers crowded, many; peduncles 1*5 in. long, mealy. Calyx 
cup-shaped, mealy. Corolla -15 in. long, violet, glabrous, lobes 
recurved. Stamens long slender, projecting. Drupe -05 in. long, 
black. Hab. Open country and edges of woods, common, Singa¬ 
pore (Wallich). Pahang, Kwala Lipis (Machado); Kwala Tem- 
beling. Selangor, Batu Tiga; Rawang; Rantau Panjang (Kloss); 
Ginting Bidai. Perak, Ulu Kerling (Kunstler). Lankawi (Curtis). 
Distrib. Siam, Java to Philippines. Native names : Poko Amban ; 
Tampang Besih. 
5 . CALLICARPA, Linn. 
Trees or shrubs more or less tomentose. Leaves crenate or 
dentate, rarely entire. Flowers small in large axillary panicled 
cymes, numerous, violet or greenish. Bracts inconspicuous. Calyx 
campanulate, truncate or minutely lobed. Corolla campanulate 
or tubular, lobes 4, oblong. Stamens 4. Ovary imperfectly 2- 
celled, cells 2-ovuled; style long; stigma dilate, obscurely bifid. 
Drupe small, globose, purple, black or white; pyrenes 4 or fewer. 
Species 30, tropical and sub-tropical Asia, Australasia, America. 
Trees. 
Leaves densely tomentose beneath ; flowers violet . (1) C. arborea 
Leaves thinly tomentose beneath ; flowers greenish. (2) C. Maingayi 
Leaves white beneath with brown scurfy veins . (3) C. furfuracea 
Shrubs. 
Leaves narrow lanceolate, long acuminate at both 
ends, grey white beneath . . . . (4) C. angustifolia 
Leaves ovate to broad lanceolate, base cuneate, 
grey tomentose beneath . . . . . {5) C. cana 
Leaves ovate-lanceolate, base cuneate, scurfy 
beneath. (6) C. longiiolia 
(1) C. arborea Roxb. Hort. Beng. 10; Gamble, l.c. 803. (Fig. 
128, p. 615.) 
Tree 40 to 60 ft. tall; stem stout; branches mealy tomentose. 
Leaves coriaceous ovate or elliptic-lanceolate acuminate, base 
narrowed, glabrous above when adult except midrib, tomentose 
beneath, 6 to 12 in. long, 2 to 5 in. wide; nerves strongly raised 
beneath, nervules transverse ; petioles 1 to 2*5 in. long. Cymes 
many-flowered compound, 3 in. across; peduncle stout, 2 in. long, 
all tomentose. Calyx mealy funnel-shaped with 4 small teeth. 
Corolla -06 in. long, violet, glabrous, lobes 4. Stamens long exsert; 
anthers short oblong. Hab. Woods in low country, not rare, 
