Premna. DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA, 75 
lip densely clothed with violet coloured hairs. Bractes very 
minute, and caducous. Calyzx five-toothed, Corol with an 
unequal, five-cleft border ; lower division large, round and 
curled, Filaments purple, protruded in a recurved manner. 
Anthers purple, two-lobed, Drupe oval, smooth, of a shining 
black. Pulp very soft, and in large quantity, ofa dirty black 
colour. Nut oblong, compressed, somewhat furrowed, four- 
celled, itis rare however that all are fertile. Seed lanceolate, 
_ the upper end obtuse. Integuments single, white, aud spongy: 
Perisperm none. Embryo erect. Cotyledons conform to the 
seed, long obovate, of a tender, oily texture, ced white. Pa- 
sass —_ poem 
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10. V. heterophylla: ? R. to Hite 2S ae SL iaygeui 
Leaves long-petioled, ternate and quinade’ leafites all ssa 
petioled, broad-lanceolate, entire, acuminate, smooth. 
A tall, slow-growing timber tree, a native of the Tippera 
forests ; it has been fourteen years in the Botanic garden at 
Coleatin and i abies feet high without having blossomed. 
11. V. hen R Ht 
» Leaves ternate and quinate ; leaflets petioled, Ianceoer, 
entire, smooth, Panicles axillary, dichotomous, — ; 
A tree of considerable size ; a native of the ices n roa 
terior parts of Coromandel, from thence introduced by Dr. 
B, Heyne into the Botanic garden where it blossoms in — 
and LMay: ; 
 PREMNA. Schreb. gen. N, 1025, 
Calyx from three to five-toothed. Corol irregular, four or 
five-cleft, woolly. Anthers twin. Germ superior, four-cell- 
ed; eell one-seeded ; attachment interior. Stigma two-cleft. — 
Drupe with a four-celled nut. Seed solitary. Embryo erect, © 
