Callicarpa lanata.

Botanical name: 

Callicarpa lanata Linn. Verbenaceae.

East Indies. The bark has a peculiar, subaromatic and slightly bitter taste and is chewed by the Cinghalese when they cannot obtain betel leaves.


Sturtevant's Edible Plants of the World, 1919, was edited by U. P. Hedrick.