Premna. | Cl. VERBENACEE (BAKER). 289 
tube scarcely longer than the calyx; lobes small. Stamens included. 
Style much exserted. 
Mozamb. Dist. British Central Africa: Nyasaland, Buchanan ! 
3. P. angolensis, Giirke in Engl. Jahrb. xviii. 165. A shrub 
16 ft. high, with. glabrous branchlets. Leaves 2-4-nate, ovate or sub- 
orbicular, entire, shortly cuspidate, rounded or cordate at the base, 
sometimes 5—6 in, long, glabrous on both surfaces. Inflorescence a long 
thyrsoid panicle; primary branches dichotomous; ultimate branchlets 
finely pubescent, bearing very dense clusters of flowers; pedicels very 
short. Flower-calyx 51, in. long; lobes obscure, minute. Corolla-tube 
slightly longer than the calyx; lobes 4, unequal. Stamens reaching to 
the tip of the corolla-lobes. 
Lower Guinea. Angola, Welwitsch, 5628! 5724! Loango, Soyaur, 159! 
Majakalla country, Mechow, 527. 
4. P. quadrifolia, Schumach. & Thonn.; Schauer in DC. Prod. xi. 
633. An erect shrub, with shortly pubescent branchlets. Leaves ovate 
or oblong, some 4-nate, cuspidate, entire or obscurely crenate, 2-4 in. 
long, rounded or cordate at the base, finely pubescent on both surfaces ; 
petiole long. Cymes forming a thyrsoid panicle; branchlets pubescent ; 
bracts lanceolate, minute; pedicels very short. Flower-calyx 715-3}; in. 
long, pubescent ; lobes very short and obscure, Corolla-tube longer 
than the calyx ; lobes 4, unequal. Stamens shortly exserted from the 
corolla-tube.—Benth. in Hook. Niger Fl. 485. 
Upper Guinea, Guinea: near Fredriksberg, Thonning. Lagos: Abeokuta, 
Barter, 3358! Niger Territory, Vogel! 
5. P. resinosa, Schauer in DC. Prod. xi. 637. An erect shrub 
with slender white glabrous or slightly pubescent branchlets. Leaves 
of the flowering shoots petioled, ovate or oblong, entire, obtuse, 
-1} in. long, glabrous or obscurely pubescent beneath, of the sterile 
Shoots sometimes crenate. Panicle small, terminal, peduncled, corym- 
bose; pedicels glabrous or pubescent; bracts ovate, minute. Calyx 
campanulate, ;4, in. long, glabrous or pubescent ; teeth small, broadly 
deltoid. Corolla-tube scarcely longer than the calyx; limb bilabiate ; 
lobes orbicular. Stamens and style included. Drupe black, the size of 
a small pea.—Holochiloma resinoswm, Hochst. in Flora, 1841, 371. 
Mile Band. Nubia: Coast Region, Bent / near Suakin, at Gebel Uaratab, 
Schweinfurth, 53! between Suakin and Berber, at Singat, Schweinfurth, 330! and at 
Wady O-Mareg, Schweinfurth, 431! Eritrea: near Saati, Schweinfurth § Riva, 305! 
Kordofan: Mount Arashkol, Kotschy, 198 ! near Melbes, Kotschy, 414! Abu Haraza, 
Pfund, 132! Abu Snun, Pfund, 328! Wadi Taiarah, Pfund, 846! between El Obeid 
and Melbes, Pfund, 848! and without precise locality, Kotschy, 254! 
Also in Arabia, 
6. P. somaliensis, Baker. An erect shrub, 10 ft. high, with 
slender woody glabrous branchlets. Leaves distinctly petioled, ovate, 
1-1} in, long, obtuse, obscurely crenate, turning black when dried, 
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