578 CXI. VERBENACEE, (C. B. Clarke.) [Premna. 
Roxburgh grounds his species on the cordate base of the leaves: this form appears 
confined to the Coromandel Hills. . . 
VAR. cuneata; leaf-base rhomboid or cuneate, calyx strigose. P. viburnoides, 
Kurz For. Fl. ii. 961.— Pegu; Kurz. Burma; Griffith (Kew Distrib. n. 6035).—A 
small tree of the dusky sombre colour of P. latifolia Roxb. type, the leaves drying 
blue-black above, ashy beneath, often very pubescent when young. M 
V AR. mollissima ; leaves small base obtuse or rhomboid, corymbs l} in. diam. 
P. mollissima, Roth Nov. Sp. 287 ; Schauer in DC. Prodr. xi. 638. P. viburnoides, 
Wall. Cat. 2646, letter a only; Schauer l. e. 635, chiefly.—Madras; Wight. —This 
looks like a burnt-up form of Var. cuneata, than which it is not more hairy, but 
has smaller calyx and corolla. 
Var. mucronata; leaves cuneate at both ends mature minutely pubescent on 
the midrib beneath, corymbs somewhat broad rusty-pubescent, calyx subpatently 
pubescent. P. mucronata, Road. Fl. Ind. iii. 6835; Wall. Cat. 1766; Schauer in 
DC. Prodr. xi. 635 ; Brand. For. Fl. 866.—N. India from Kumaon to Bhotan and 
the Khasia Mts., ascending to 5000 ft., and spreading into Bengal Plain, common, 
Wallich, H. f. & T., &c.— This could not be distinguished from P. latifolia by Wallich 
or Brandis, and seems to be a state of P. latifolia grown in a moister soil. The 
leaves are often 6 in. long, the drupes larger and more verrucose. id 
Var. viburnoides, Wall. Cat. 2646, letter b only ; leaves ovate base rhombol, 
glabrate drying green surfaces concolorous. Schauer in DC. Prodr. xi. 635, tn sm al 
part. P. latifolia, Wight Ie. t. 869. —S. Deccan Peninsula ; Cochin and Gingee Hills, 
Wight ; near Madras, G. Thomson.—Leaves broad, not cordate, nearly glabrous even 
when young.— This may be a distinct species; the green colour easily separates it from 
all the preceding forms of P. latifolia. 
23. P. flavescens, Ham.; Wall. Cat. 2649; leaves ovate or obovate 
acuminate entire mature setulose above villous beneath, corymbs large 
densely pubescent, calyx closely pubescent shortly 5-toothed. 
E. BENGAL; Goalpara, Hamilton ; Dacca, Clarke. 
A shrub or a small tree; shoots villous or woolly. Leaves 6 by 2} in., base obtuse 
or subcordate, upper surface with minute scattered hairs erect from the reticulating 
nerves; nerves 7 pair; petiole lin. Corymbs 4-7 in. diam., usually rusty-villous ; 
bracts i in., linear. Calyx jin. Corolla 4-4 in. 2-lipped, very hairy below within. 
rupe Y in. 
Var. glabrior; leaves setulose above sparingly pubescent or glabrate beneath 
green. Premna n. 24, Herb. Ind. Or. H. f. & T. Subtropical Sikkim, alt. 3000 fti» 
Clarke. Silhet; H. f. & T. isl 
Var. rubens; leaves setulose above glabrate beneath drying usually reddi. 
Premna n. 32, Herb, Ind. Or. H. f. 4 T.—Malacca; Griffith (Kew Distrib. n. 6020’. 
(Java.)— Possibly a distinct species; but, except as to the colour of the leaves, no 
diagnostic mark has been found to separate it from Var. glabrior. 
24. P. micrantha, Schauer in DC. Prodr. xi. 635; leaves ovate 
acuminate entire mature setulose above somewhat pubescent benea h 
corymbs compound minutely pubescent, calyx very small minutely 5-toothed. 
P. scandens, Wall. Cat. 1774, in small part. 
SILHET; Wallich. aed 
Leaves 3} by 14 in., base rounded. Calyx 3 in. when the flower is expandec- " 
This very closely resembles P. flavescens, ibn may be a form of it; it differs m 
the very small calyx. The bristliness of the upper surface of the leaves is peculiar to 
P. flavescens and P. micrantha among Premnas. 
25. P. Wightiana, Schauer in DC. Prodr. xi. 635; leaves ovate 
shortly acuminate subentire mature sparsely pubescent above, panic th 
narrow subthyrsoid in fruit minutely thinly scabrid-pubescent, calyx-teet 
9 subequal ovate or triangular. P. thyrsiflora, Heyne; Wail. Cat. 1770. 
