574 CXI. VERBENACEX. (C. B. Clarke.) [ Premna, 
Calyx } in., cup-shaped, nearly glabrous at flower-time. Corolla bearded in the 
throat. Drupe (fide Roxburgh) size of a pea, globose, tubercled.—The immature 
drupes appear narrowly obovoid, and the plant hardly to differ from P. coriacea 
var. oblonga, except in the thinner texture. Roxburgh says the petioles are some- 
times bairy ; from which it may be doubted whether he did not erroneously refer 
other things to this species. I cannot satisfactorily identify from the descriptions the 
P. scandens & cordifolia of Brandis For. Flora. 
9. P. purpurascens, Thwaites Enum. 242; leaves broadly oblong 
suddenly shortly acuminate entire glabrous, corymbs large closely pubescent, 
calyx small truncate cinereous-pubescent. 
CEYLON ; Ambagamowa District, Thwaites. 
A large climber. Leaves 44 by 2} in., suddenly subobtusely acuminate, base obtuse 
or subcordate, mature fulvous-puberulous on the nerves beneath or glabrate; nerves 
8 pair; petiole lin. Corymós 6 in., straggling, with many small flowers clustered at 
the ends of the branches. Calyz yt, in., obscurely 2-lipped. Coro/la j, in., subequally 
4-lobed, pale-purple, Thwaites. Drupe not seen. . 
VAR. ? paucinervis ; nerves 3—4 pair, not inarching except very close to the margin. 
—Anamalla ys, alt. 3000 ft., Beddome.—A gigantic climber with the purple colour of 
Thwaites’ P. purpurascens by Beddome, and referred doubtfully thereto by him. 
Beddome's specimen is very immature, but the nervation of the leaves is unlike that 
of P. purpurascens, and may indicate a new species. ` 
** Calyx 2-lipped, one lip 2-toothed, the other subentire. 
10. P. integrifolia, Linn. Mant. 252 (excl. syn. Burm.); leaves 
broadly oblong or ovate subobtuse undulate or coarsely toothed mature 
glabrous, corymbs dense minutely hairy, calyx sparsely minutely pubescent 
or scabrid puberulous. Wight Ic. t. 1469; Brand. For. Fl. 366. P. sev, 
ratifolia, Linn. l. c. 253; Wall. Cat. 1767; Schauer in DC. Prodr. xi. 632; 
Bedd. For. Man. 172; Kurz For. Fl. ii. 263. P. spinosa, Roxb. Fl. Ind. 
iii. 77. P. sambucina, Wall. Cat. 1775; Schauer l. c. 631; Kurz l.c. 261. 
P. viburnoides, Wall. Cat. 2646, letter C. P. subcordata, Turcz. in Bull. 
Soc. Imp. Nat. Mose. 1863, ii.216. P. ovalifolia, Wall. Cat. 1782.—Gumira 
littorea, Rumph. Herb. Amb. iii. 209, t. 134. G. integrifolia, Hassk. Hort. 
Bogor. 135. 
INDIA, near the sea from Bombay to Malacca. SILmET; Wallich. CEYLON. 
ANDAMANS ; and NICOBARS, Kurz.—DISTRIB. Malaya. 
A small tree, or shrub; trunk and large branches often spinous, branchlets 
unarmed. Leaves 4 by 2} in. (sometimes 1 by à in.), subobtusely very shortly 
acuminate, or obtuse, sometimes obovate, entire sinuate or in the upper half with a 
few coarse teeth, mature glabrous or minutely hairy on the nerves above or beside the 
nerves beneath; nerves 4-5 pair; petiole 3 in., usually somewhat pubescent. Cory mås 
2—4 in. diam., short-peduncled, minutely cinereous-pubescent, and often with some 
fulvous deciduous hair; bracts 7; in., lanceolate, pubescent. Calyx rg in., 3-toothed. 
Corolla Y in., greenish-white, throat hairy, subequally 4-lobed. Drupe jin. diam., 
globose, 3-4-seeded. --Some of the synonyms cited above are uncertain; specimens 
with the calyx at all distinctly 5-toothed (rather than 3-toothed) must be referred to 
P. latifolia, Roxb.: it may be doubted whether any of the examples said to have 
come (Brandis l. c.) from Oudh and Gurwhal belong here. Gamble, however, sys 
(Darjeeling List, 60, and Indian Timbers, 295) that the tree is found in the Sikkim 
Terai 2 and as he describes the tree as thorny, it would appear that he identified 1 
correctly. 
VAR. angustior; leaves elliptic narrowed at both ends obtuse, corymbs small.— 
Malacca; Griffith (Kew Distrib. n. 6030). —Leaves 24 by $ in., widest about the 
middle. Corymés numerous, 1-2 in. diam. 
ll. P. parasitica, Blume Bijd. 816; leaves ovate or obovate very 
