Premna. | CXI. VERBENACE®. (C. D. Clarke.) 579 
S. DECCAN PENINSULA; Heyne; Sira Mullee, Wight; Anamallay Mts., Beddome. 
Appears a large rambling or subscandent shrub. Leaves 3 by 2 in. (mostly 
smaller), membranous, base obtuse or subcordate, undulate, rarely shallowly crenate, 
mature nearly glabrous beneath ; nerves 5 pair, secondary distinct ; petiole 1—1 in. 
Panicle 14 in., pyramidal; in fruit often 2-3 in., oblong; bracts qb in., lanceolate, 
persistent, nearly glabrous. Calyx 4, n , minutely scabrid, hardly pubescent. Corolla 
è in., glabrate without, subequally 4-fid. Drupe 2 in., obovoid, dry tubercular-rugose. 
26. P. Thwaitesii, Clarke; leaves ovate acuminate entire or remotely 
crenate softly hairy beneath, panicles subthyrsoid densely shortly villous, 
calyx shortly subequally 5-toothed. P. micrantha, Thwaites Enum. 242, 
not of Schauer. - 
CEYLON; Thwaites. . . 
A tree, 8-10 ft. (Thwaites). Leaves 3 by 1j in., base cuneate, minutely hairy 
above, densely deciduously simply hairy beneath, nerves 5 pair ; petiole 1— in., villous, 
Panicle 14 by 1 in., densely branched; bracts à in., linear, villous, persistent. 
Calyx dy, in., minutely appressedly hairy. Corolla 4-4 in., yellowish. Drupe j in. 
diam., globose, smooth.— Possibly a var. of P. Wightiana, but not at all like P. 
micrantha, Schauer. 
tt Leaves (mature) toothed (teeth sometimes very few in P. barbata). 
27. P. thyrsoidea, Wight Ic. t. 1485; leaves ovate shortly acuminate 
serrate mature glabrate, panicle thyrsoid villous or woolly, calyx pubescent 
or villous shortly subequally 5-toothed. 
TRAVANCORE and CourTALLUM ; Wight. . . > 
A small tree or large shrub (Wight). Leaves 34 by 2 in., base rhomboid or sub- 
cordate, mature minutely pubescent on the nerves or glabrous ;. nerves 5 pair, secondary 
distinct; petiole 3-4 in. Paniele (in flower) 4 by 2 in., densely branched; bracts 
subpersistent. Culyx ys in. Corolla 3-4 in., glabrous without; lobes 4, subequa . 
rupe 3 in., globose, verrucose-tubercular.—Wight subsequently reduced this species 
- Wightiana, Schauer, remarking that the thyrse was much larger. This may h 
80, but in addition to the differences noted by Wight, the leaves are always serrate, 
and the indumentum differs. Beddome’s description of P. Wightiana (For. Man. 
173) is designed to include the two. 
28. P. barbata, Wall. Cat. 1768; leaves oblong or ovate acuminate 
more or less toothed mature minutely pubescent beneath, corymbs villous 
with small simple hairs, calyx subequally 4-toothed glabrate or M . 
ehaner in DC. Prodr. xi. 636; Brand. For. Fl. 366. P. cana, Wall. Cat. 
3. 
y. SUBTROPICAL HIMALAYA, alt. 500-5000 ft., from Kumaon to Bhotan, frequent ; 
allich, H. . T. &c. . 
A small LS M shrub. Leaves 6 by 13-2} in., base obtuse sometimes subcordate, 
usually distinctly toothed, sometimes with only a few teeth towards the tip ye E 
softly minutely pubescent on both surfaces, mature nearly glabrous above, n times 
pair ; petiole ‘1 in. Corymbs 1-2} in, diam, somewhat dense, in frait sometime 
vOBlabrate; bracts small, linear, deciduous. Calyx y in.; teeth ob mE mewhat 
obo nlla i-b in., 2-lipped, hairy in the throat. Drupe j in., globose or 
void, glabrous obscurely verrucose. u 
Si; AR. anodon; leaves very sparingly toothed, often nearly glabrous when young. 
ikkim and Bhotan, frequent ; Clarke. 
29. P. Pinguis, Clarke; leaves ovate acuminate serrate mature 
pubescent on the nerves, corymbs dense subsessile, calyx mx 4 y 
Hg gt glandular scarcely pubescent. Premna n. 99, Herb. . 
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