Premna. | CXI. VERBENACEE. (C. B. Clarke.) 573 
5. P. corymbosa, fott/. 4. Willd. in Gesell. Nat. Freunde Neue 
Schr. iv. (1803) 187, 188; leaves subcordate-ovate acuminate undulate, 
panicles dense branches dichotomous slender glabrate coloured, corolla 1 in. 
tube cylindrie hairy near the top. P. densiflora, Wall. Cat. 1773. P. 
cordifolia, Wight Ic. t. 1483; Bedd. For. Man. 1729 ; Schauer in DC. Prodr. 
xi. 632, partly; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 199 ?, not of Roxb. P. truncata, 
Turcz. in Bull. Soc. Imp. Nat. Mose. 1863, ii. 215, ex. descr. Cornutia 
corymbosa, Burm. FL. Ind. 133, t. 41, fig. 1, not of Lamk. 
Carnatic; Wight, Shuter; Cuddapah Hills, Beddome. CEYLON; Burmann, 
Thwaites, C. P. n. 193. 
Leaves 3} by 1$ in. young sometimes woolly, mature nearly glabrous, upper 
surface impressed reticulate; petiole 1 in., pubescent.  Pamicles small, pyramidal, 
very dense, brachiate, patently deciduously pubescent with simple hairs ; bracts nar- 
rowly lanceolate. Calyx j,in., early glabrate ; in fruit enlarged, 2-lipped, membra- 
nous or whitened. Corolla tubular, limb subequally 4-lobed. Drupe } in., obovoid, 
3-4-seeded, 
6. P. coriacea, Clarke; leaves cordate ovate or orbicular shortly 
acuminate mature coriaceous glabrous, corymbs large compound, corolla 
din. P. cordifolia, Grah. Cat. Pl. Bomb. 155, not of Roxh. P. scandens, 
Dalz. § Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 199, not of Roxb. 
W. Deccan PENINSULA, in the Ghauts, from Bombay to Cochin, common ; Wight, 
Graham, Hohenacker, &c. . . 
A large climber (Ritchie) or a tree (Graham). Leaves 5 by 3} in., entire, mature 
very shining smooth, nerves 4—5 pair; petiole lin. Curymé 8 in. diam., 3 in. high, 
closely shortly hairy; bracts 4 in., lanceolate, scattered. Calyx y, in, cup-shaped, 
truncate, hardly 2-lipped, minutely pubescent. Corolla greenish-yellow, throat 
hairy. Drupe 4 in., 1-seeded, narrowly obovoid. 
Var. oblonga; leaves elliptic or oblong often caudate. P. scandens, Wall. Cat. 
1774, partly. ` Premna n. 23, Herb. Ind. Or. H. f. & T.—Khasia Terai; Hf. & T. 
Nathpur; Hamilton. Sikkim ‘Terai; Clarke.—A tree, 20-40 ft. 
VAR. cuneata ; leaves oblong base euneate often caudate. Premna n. 23, Herb. 
Ind. Or. H. f. & T.—Khasia Terai; Silhet and Pundua, A. f. & T. 
7. P. villosa, Clarke; leaves cordate-ovate shortly acuminate mature 
densely villous beneath, corymbs large compound closely pubescent, corolla 
è in.—Premna n. 25, Herb. Ind. Or. H. f. & T. 
Deccan PENINSULA; Mts. of Kurg, Wight, G. Thomson; W ynaad, alt. 3000 ft., 
eddome, l 
A tree (or a large climber, Beddome), closely resembling P. coriacea except as to 
the indumentum. Leaves (mature) densely villous with simple straight hairs beneat à, 
Most copiously on the nerves, glabrate above; petiole 2 in. Corymb, ca yz, 
corolla, and young drupe as of P. coriacea, of which this may be a var., as Beddome 
Suspects, 
8. P. scandens, Rorb. F!. Ind. iii. 82; leaves petioled elliptic and 
acuminate or lanceolate entire membranous glabrous, corymbs large Hn 
Pound lax puberulous many-fld., calyx subentire membranous in FL 
corolla scarcely 4 in. Schauer in DC. Prodr. xi. 632; Kurz E Or. 
263. P. ramosa, Wall. Cat. 1774.—Premna n. 24, Herb, Ind. Or. 
Hf. & T. > à 
TrRAr of N. and E. BENGAL, frequent; SIKKIM, J. D. H., &c. ; BHOTAN an 
Assam, Griffith (Kew Distrib. n. 6034). SILHET; Roxburgh, Wallich; CACHAR, 
enan. MARTABAN; Kurz. . . 
A tree, 20-40 ft., or (fide Roxburgh) a large climber. Leaves n 130 in, pase 
rounded or cuneate, nerves 6 pair; petiole 1} in., glabrous. Corymós . . 
