Tedo7iaJ\ cxi. VERBENACEJE. (C. B. Clarke.) 571 



scabrous or subglabrate above, calyx in fruit 1 in. diam. ovoid membranous. 

 Gaertn. Fruct. i. 275, t. 57 ; Eoxb. Cor. PL i. 10, t. 6, and Fl Ind. i. 600 ; 

 Wall. Cat. 772 ; Graham Cat. PI. Bomb. 158 ; Sckauer in DC. Prodr. xi. 

 629; Dalz. $ Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 199; Bocq. Eev. Verb. 99, t. TO; Bedd. Fl, 

 Sylv. t. 250 (two); Brand. For. Fl. 354, t. 44; Kurz For. Fl. ii. 259 ; 

 Gamble Indian Timbers, 283. Theka, Juss. Gen. 108 ; LamTc. III. t. 136. 

 Eumph. Herb. Amb. iii. t. 18 ; Rheede Hort. Hal. iv. t. 27. 



W. DECCAN PENINSULA, alt. 500-4000 ft., common ; from CENTRAL INDIA to 

 ORISSA. MALAY PENINSULA, alt. 500-4000 ft. ; from Burma (common) to Malacca. 

 DISTEIB. Sumatra, Java. 



A tree, 80-150 ft.; branchlets quadrangular, stellately tomentose. Leaves 12 by 

 8 in. (of seedlings sometimes 3 ft.), cuneate at both ends, mature with hard close 

 tomentum beneath ; petiole 1 in. Panicles 18 in. diam., and more ; flowers very 

 numerous, but only a few fertile ; bracts | by ^ in., deciduous, with also usually some 

 reduced leaves at the forks. Calyx (in flower) - in., lobed less than half-way down, 

 stellatolv white-tomentose. Corolla scarcely ^ in. long, white, glabrous in the throat. 

 Drupe f in. diam. ; cells 4 with a central cavity, densely hirsute ; calyx in fruit ovoid 

 or snbpyrumidal, membranous, often reticulately -nerved nearly glabrous, mouth very 

 small. Teak. 



2. T. Hamiltoniana, Wall. PI. As. Ear. iii. 68, t. 294, and Cat. 

 773 ; leaves mostly ternate whorled, ovate mature scabrid above, calyx in 

 fruit \ in. diam. narrowly urceolate densely woolly. Walp. Sep. iv. 99 ; 

 Schauer in DC. Prodr. xi. 629 (exel. the Philippine Island plant) ; Kurz 

 For. Fl. ii. 259 ; Gamble Indian Timbers, 293. Theka ternifolia, Ham. in 

 Trans. Linn. Soc. xvii. 185. 



BURMA, at Prome; Wallich, Kurz. DISTRIB. Ava. 



A small tree, 30-40 ft. ; branchlets 6-8-angular. Leaves sometimes opposite or 

 4-nate, 8 by 5 in., base rhomboid or obtuse, white tomentose beneath or ultimately 

 softly hairy ; petiole f in. Panicle 6-12 in., stellately woolly ; branches ascending. 

 Calyx (in flower) in., lobed scarcely half-way down. Corolla | in. long, throat 

 very hairy; lobes pale blue. Drupe | by in., glabrous or with some soft wool, 

 4-celled without a central cavity; calyx in fruit 5 by ^ in., narrower upwards. This 

 tree flowers before the leaves are fully developed. 



XI. PREXKNA, Linn. 



Trees or shrubs, sometimes climbing. Leaves opposite, entire or toothed. 

 Cymes corymbose or panicled, sometimes thyrsoid, pubescent; bracts small, 

 narrow. Flowers often polygamous, greenish or yellowish white, small (in 

 P. cordifolia and -P. corymbosa rather larger, then scarcely in. long). 

 Calyx small, cup-shaped, subentire .or minutely 2--5- toothed, subequal or 

 2-lipped. Corolla tubular, throat hairy ; limb 2-lipped, 5-lobed, or sub- 

 equally 4-lobed. Stamens 4, didynamous. Ovary 2- or 4-celled, 4-ovuled ; 

 style linear, shortly bifid. Drupe small, surrounded below by the calyx, 

 globose or oblong-obovoid ; endocarp hard undivided 1-4-celled 1-4-seeded. 

 Seeds oblong. Species 40, chiefly Indian. 



* Calyx 2-hpped or subtruncate, lips subentire. 

 f" Cymes forming an elongate interrupted thyrse. 



1. P. racemosa, Wall. Cat. 1777 ; leaves petioled ovate or obovate 

 acuminate, spikes simple densely shortly villous, calyx minutely hairy or 

 glabrate. Schauer in DC. Prodr. xi. 633; Brand. For. Fl. 367; Kurz 

 For. Fl. ii. 263. 



