4. Pbemna.] 82. VERBENACEM. 



with a foetid or aromatic smell. Fls. small white or greenish, 

 sab-regular or 2-lipped in pubescent usually corymbose 

 cymose panicles. Calyx small 2-5-toothed or sub-entire, 

 sometimes lipped. Corolla tubular, throat hairy, petals 4-5. 

 St. 4 didynamous. Ovary 2-4-celled. Drupe small with 

 a 1-4-celled, 1-4-seeded stone, seated on -the usually cupular 

 calyx. 



Note— The Chota Nagpur species of Premna require further in- 

 vestigation. Some flower in July, a month in which I have never been tm 

 tour. The following key is based therefore mainly on the leaves. A ? 

 is appended to doubtful forms. 



L. entire 2-6", drying blue-black. Corymbs 2-5'' diam. 1. latifolia. 

 L. more or less serrate 2£-8'', drying green, old nearly 

 glabrous. Corymbs 1-2J'' 2. barbata. 



L. dentate ovate 6-12'', old minutely glandular and * 



pubescent on nerves beneath . . . 3. «p.? 



L. entire ovate or elliptic 5-9'', old only stellate on 

 nerves beneath. Corymbs 4-7" diam . . 4. bengalensit. 



L. entire ovate acuminate 4-6", old stellately 

 tomentose beneath. Corymbs 2£-4'' . .5. tomentoea. 



L. entire oblong to ovate 5-10'', pubescent or villous 

 (not stellate) beneath. Corymbs 6" ... 6.)flavescens. 



Leaves as in flavescens but serrate . .6a. Var. ? 



Dwarf with leaves appressed to the ground . . 7. herbacea. 



1. P. latifolia, Roxh. Sande sabar, Dandra sea, 8. 

 Bakar, H. 



A low bushy tree with trunk up to 4 ft. girth, or shrubby ; 

 with usually ovate, sometimes elliptic leaves attaining 6§* 

 by 2f " entire acuminate, and small white flowers in terminal 

 corymbose 3-chotomous panicles 1-5" broad. JDrupe black de- 

 pressed globose £'' diam. Stone ridged, 4- celled, usually JL- 

 seeded. 



Gangpur, along banks of streams (tree form with usnally elliptic 

 leaves and cuneate base); Hazaribagh (Nemiaghat, Tatijheria); Man- 

 bhum, a common bush, Gamp. ; Eajmehal hills, frequent on trap (small 

 tree or bush with leaves rounded at base but shortly cuneato on the 

 petiole) 



481 s 



