420 XCTII. TEBBENACE.T. 



Gmelina HysU-ix, Scbult. ex Kurz, in Journ. As. Soc. Beiig. v 

 (1870) part 2, p. 81. A spinous shrub, a native of Siam and 



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Philippine Islands, scandent if shaded. It has smooth entire elliptic 

 leaves 3 by 14 in., glaucous beneath with scattered roinid glands, and 

 pendulous" panicles of large yellow flowers consisting of small cymes 

 enclosed in large membmnous purple-veined bracts. Fl. B. I. v. 4, 

 p. 582 ; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Kat. v. 12 (189!)) p. 359 & Gard. in 

 Ind. ed. 5, p. 418. 



9. PREMNA, Liim. 

 Trees or shrubs sometimes climbing. Leaves opposite, entire or 

 toothed. Flowers in corymbose or paniculate sometimes thyrsoid 

 pubescent cymes; bracts small, narrow; bracteoles 0. Calyx small, 

 cup-shaped ; limb truncate or minutely 2-5-toothed or 2-lipped. Corolla 

 small ; tube short ; throat hairy inside ; limb 2-lipped, 5-lobed or sub- 

 equally 4-lobed. Stamens 4, didynamous, inserted below the throat of 

 the corolla, rarely exserted ; anthers ovate or rounded, the cells parallel 

 or divergent. ()vary 2- or 4-celled ; ovules 4 ; style linear ; stigma 

 shortly 2-fid. Fruit a small drupe, embraced below by the calyx, 

 globose or obloiig-obovoid ; endocarp hard, undivided, normally 4- or 

 by abortion 1-3-celled, with a central cavity. Seeds oblong; albumen 0. 

 — DiSTBiB. Species 40 in the warmer regions of the Old World. 



A scandent shrub ; corymbs purplish ; calyx truncate 1. P. coriacea.^ 



An erect tree; corymbs greenish-yellow ; calyx 2-lippcd 2. P. integrifolia. 



1. Premna coriacea, C. B. Clarke, inlTool-.f. Fl. B. /. v. 4 (1885) 

 p. 573. An exlensive climber ; bark smooth, thin, covered with round 

 scattered corky lenticels ; stems and branches glabrous or nearly so. 

 Leaves coriaceous, 4-8 by 3-4| in., ovate or elliptic, shortly acuminate, 

 entire, glabrous, cordate or rounded at the base; main nerves 4-5 pairs 

 with reticulate venation between them ; petioles 1-1 h in. long. Flowers 

 numerous, in large finely pubescent terminal paniculate corymbose 

 cymes ; pedicels very short ; bracts minute, scattered. Calyx puberu- 

 lous, y^^ in. long, cup-shaped, truncate, membranous. Corolla-tube 

 -V in. long, hairy in the throat inside ; lobes 4, as long as the tube, 

 subequal, oblong, "rounded, the lobes white, the rest of the inflorescence 

 purple or red (Talbot). Filaments densely hairy. Ovary and style 

 glabrous. Drupe ■} in. long, narrowly obovoid, 1-seeded, smooth, black 

 when ripe. Talb. Trees, Bomb. ed. 2, p. 208; AVoodr. in Journ. Bomb. 

 Nat. V. 12 (1899) p. 359. Premna scandcns, Grab. Cat. p. 155 (not of 

 Roxb.) ; Dalz. &(jiihs. p. 199.— Flowers : Mar.-May. Veen. Baivan ; 

 Chdmhari. 



KoNKAN ; Gibson '., Stocks !, Law !, Dalzell ! Dkccan : Lnnoli, Kaxilkav ! ; Klinndala, 

 nhiia\ Kanaka: Mnndele (N. Kanara), Z'eYfA/f, 920!— Distiub. India (W. Penin- 

 sula). 



2. Premna integrifolia, Linn. Mant. v. 2 (1771) p. 252. A large 

 shrub or small tree ivaching 30 ft. high ; bark yellowish, lenticellate ; 

 young parts glabrous or slightly pubescent ; trunk and large branches 

 sometimes spinous. Leaves 2-3| by lj-2.J in., broadly elliptic, obtuse, 

 very shortly acuminate, glabrous, entire or the up]H'r ]iart dentate, base 

 rounded or subacute; main nerves 4-5 pairs; peliolos ^_a i^. long. 

 Flowers small, greenish-yellow, with a disjigrecable odor, in terminal 



