864. 
CALLICARPA longifolia. 
Long-leaved Callicarpa. 
—aae 
TETRANDRIA JZONOGYNL1A. 
Nat. ord. VERBENACER, wa 
CALLICARPA, L.—Calyx campanulatus 4-fidus equalis. Corolla 
campanulata 4-fida regularis. “Stamina 4 wqualia exserta. Stigma capi- 
tatum. Bacca parva, 1-locularis, 4-sperma. Semina subossea. Brown 
prodr. 1. 513. 
C. longifolia; foliis lanceolato-acuminatis superne serratis adultis glabrius- 
culis, pedunculo petiolum paululum superante. Hooker, Exot. fl. 183. 
C. longifolia. Lam. in Enc. Meth. 1- 563.  Iilustr. t. 69. f. 2. illd. sp. 
. pli. 261. , 
Our figure of this plant was engraved, and in the co- 
lourer’s hands, before the number of Dr. Hooker’s Exotic 
Flora, in which we find it extremely well described, 
reached us, 
We quite agree with our excellent friend, in excluding 
from this species the synonym of the Callicarpa longifolia 
from Prince of Wales’s Island. That plant is, in fact, very 
nearly related to the C. lanceolaria of Roxburgh; from 
which it can only be distinguished by its leaves not being 
acuminate, and having stalks much longer than the cymes. 
A hardy greenhouse plant flowering in March and April. 
Our drawing was made some years since, from an imported 
plant, in the Garden of the Horticultural Society, at Ken- 
sington; it has been since received both from Mr. Potts and 
Mr. Parks. 
The following excellent description we take from Pro- 
fessor Hooker. 
A shrub, with erect weak branches, which are obscurely 
four-sided, and clothed, especially the younger ones, with 
stellated pubescence, of which the rays are exceedingly nu- 
merous, and such as to give it a mealy appearance to the 
naked eye. Leaves always opposite, five or six inches in 
length, lanceolate, somewhat waved, serrated in the upper 
