350 Verbcnacecp. {Premna. 



nearly truncate, very faintly 4-lobed; cor.-tube short, broad, 

 lobes 4, equal, short, spreading; stam, 4, much exserted; ov. 

 2-celled, with 2 ovules in each cell, stigma dilated, faintly 2- 

 lobed ; drupe juicy, pyrenes normally 4, i -seeded. — Sp. 30; 

 12 in Fl. B. Ind. 



C. lanata, L. Mant. ii. 331 (1771). Ilia, 5. 



Herm. Mus. II. Burm. Thes. 26. Fl. Zeyl. n. 59. Tomex fomentosa, 

 L. Sp. PI. 118. Moon Cat. 10. C. tonentosa, L. Syst. Veg., ed. 13, 130 

 (1774). C. Wallichiana^ Walp., Schauer in DC. Prod., .\i. 641 ; Thw. 

 Enum. 243. C. P. 722. 



Fl. B. Ind. iv, 567. Wight, let. 1480 (C Wallichiana). 



A small or moderate-sized bushy tree, branchlets stout, 

 cylindrical, closely covered with a thick felt (easily detached) 

 of stellate hair, young parts very densely stellate-tomentose; 

 1. large, 6-9 in., ovate, rounded or obtuse at base, slightly 

 acuminate, acute, entire, glabrous (when mature), rugose and 

 bright green above, densely covered with a close felt of white 

 or yellowish stellate hair beneath, petiole f-2 in., stout, very 

 tomentose; fl. sessile, in clusters of 3, cymes shortly peduncu- 

 late, divaricately branched, densely stellate^tomentose^ bracts 

 linear; cal. membranous, stellate-tomentose; cor. glabrous, 

 tube \ in., lobes oblong, obtuse, recurved ; drupe under \ in., 

 globose, black, shining. 



Moist region up to 4000 ft.; very common. Fl. March, September; 

 pale pinkish-lilac, anth. cream-coloured. 



Throughout the Indian Peninsula. 



The leaves and bark are mucilaginous, and used both internally and 

 externally. The latter is said to be also chewed. 



Tectotta grandis^ I., f., the Teak tree, though common in India, Burma, 

 and Malaya, does' not occur wild in Ceylon. It is, however, a commonly 

 planted tree in the moist region. 



7. PREMNA, Z. 



Shrubs or trees, sometimes climbing, 1. opp., simple; fl. 



small, usually in terminal corymbose or paniculate cymes; 



cal. small, cup-shaped, entire or 2-lipped or with 5 segm.; 



cor. with a short broad tube, hairy or woolly in the throat, 



lobes 4, one usually larger than others, so as to be more or 



less 2-lipped; stam. 4, didynamous or equal, more or less 



ex.serted; ov. 2- or 4-cclled, with 4 ovules; drupe small, 



surrounded at base by often enlarged cal., stone hard, normall)- 



4-celled and 4-sccded. — Sp. 40; 30 in Fl. B. Ind. 



The species are somewhat obscure, and 4-6 are a good deal involved, 

 and difficult to distinguish. 



