Tectona. | CXI. VERBENACEX. (C. B. Clarke.) 571 
scabrous or subglabrate above, calyx in fruit 1 in. diam. ovoid membranous. 
Gaertn. Fruct. i. 275, t. 57 ; Roxb. Cor. Pl. i. 10, t. 6, and Fl. Ind.i. 600 ; 
Wail. Cat. 779, Graham Cat. Pl. Bomb. 158; Schauer in DC. Prodr. xi. 
629; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 199; Boeg. Rev. Verb. 99, t. 10; Bedd. FI. 
Sylv. t. 250 (two); Brand. For. Fl. 354, t. 44; Kurz For. Fl i. 259; 
Gamble Indian Timbers, 283.—Theka, Juss. Gen. 108; Lamk. Ill. t. 136.— 
Rumph. Herb. Amb. iii. t. 18; Rheede Hort. Mal. iv. t. 97. 
W. Deccan PENINSULA, alt. 500-4000 ft., common; from CENTRAL INDIA to 
Orissa. MALAY PENINSULA, alt. 500-4000 ft.; from Burma (common) to Malacca. 
—DisTRIB. Sumatra, Java. 
A tree, 80-150 ft.; branchlets quadrangular, stellately tomentose. Leaves 12 by 
8 in. (of seedlings sometimes 3 ft.), cuneate at both ends, mature with hard close 
tomentum beneath; petiole 1 in. Panicles 18 in. diam., and more; flowers very 
numerous, but only a few fertile ; bracts } by q} in., deciduous, with also usually some 
reduced leaves at the forks. Calyz (in flower) 4-4 in., lobed less than half-way down, 
stellately white-tomentose. Corolla scarcely 4 in. long, white, glabrous in the throat. 
Drupe % in. diam. ; cells 4 with a central cavity, densely hirsute ; calyx in fruit ovoid 
or pyramidal, membranous, often reticulately-nerved nearly glabrous, mouth very 
small. — Teak, 
2. T. Hamiltoniana, Wall. Pl. As. Rar. iii. 68, t. 294, and Cat. 
773 ; leaves mostly ternate whorled, ovate mature scabrid above, calyx in 
fruit | in. diam. narrowly urceolate densely woolly. Walp. Rep. iv. 99; 
Schauer in DC. Prodr. xi. 629 (excl. the Philippine Island plant); Kurz 
For, Fl. ii. 259; Gamble Indian Timbers, 293. Theka ternifolia, Ham. in 
Trans. Linn. Soc. xvii. 185. 
Burma, at Prome; Wallich, Kurz.—DisTRIB. Ava. 
A small tree, 30-40 ft.; branchlets 6-8-angular. Leaves sometimes opposite or 
4-nate, 8 by 5 in., base rhomboid or obtuse, white tomentose beneath or ultimately 
softly hairy ; petiole $ in. Panicle 6-12 in., stellately woolly ; branches ascending. 
Calyx (in flower) 4 in., lobed scarcely half-way down. Corolla 4 in. long, throat 
very hairy ; lobes pale blue. Drupe } by à in. glabrous or with some soft wool, 
4-celled without a central cavity; calyx in fruit $ by -4 in., narrower upwards.—This 
tree flowers before the leaves are fully developed. 
XI. PREMNA, Linz. 
Trees or shrubs, sometimes climbing. Leaves opposite, entire or toothed. 
ymes corymbose or panicled, sometimes thyrsoid, pubescent ; bracts small, 
narrow, Flowers often polygamous, greenish or yellowish white, small (in 
P. cordifolia and P. corymbosa rather larger, then scarcely à in. long). 
Calya small, cup-shaped, subentire or minutely 2-5-toothed, subequal or 
“lipped. Corolla tubular, throat hairy; limb 2-lipped, 5-lobed, or sub- 
equally 4-lobed. Stamens 4, didynamous. Ovary 2- or 4-celled, 4-ovuled ; 
style linear, shortly bifid. Drupe small, surrounded below by the calyx, 
globose or oblong-obevoid; endocarp hard undivided 1-4-celled 1-4-seeded. 
Seeds oblong.— Species 40, chiefly Indian. 
* Calyx 2-hpped or subtruncate, lips subentire. 
t Cymes forming an elongate interrupted thyrse. 
l. P, racemosa, Wall. Cat. 1777; leaves petioled ovate or obovate 
acuminate, spikes simple densely shortly villous, calyx minutely hairy or 
glabrate. “Schaner in DC. Prodr. xi. 633; Brand. For, FI. 367; Kurz 
For, Fl ii. 263, .——— 
