572 cxi. VERBENACE^. (C. B. Clarke.) [Premna. 



KHASIA MTS., alt. 3-5000 ft.; Wallich, Griffith (Kew Distrib. n. 6023)j S.f. $ T., 

 &c. TENASSERIM (Kurz). 



A small tree, 10-30 ft. ; innovations minutely fulvous-villous. Leaves 3 by 1 J in., 

 obscurely erenate, mature nearly glabrous, nerves 4-5 pair ; petiole in. Spikes 

 2-5 in. ; bracts ^ in., elliptic, nerved, whitened, deciduous, or much smaller incon- 

 spicuous. Calyx T ' s in., usually whitened upwards, glabrate, lobed half-way down 

 into 2 rounded lips, or subtruncate and very shallowly lobed. Corolla, | in., 

 greenish -white, mouth subequally 4-lobed, throat very hairy. Ovary nearly glabrous 

 at the tip. Drupe % in., mostly 1-seeded, narrowly obovoid. 



2. P. interrupta, Wall. Cat. 1778 ; leaves subsessile ovate or 

 obovate very shortly acuminate, spikes simple densely shortly villous, calyx 

 puberulous or glabrate. Schauer in DC. Prodr. xi. 633 ; Brand. For. Fl. 

 367. 



TEMPERATE HIMALAYA, frequent, alt. 5-8000 ft., from Kumaon, Strachey $ 

 Winterbottom, to Sikkim, J. D. H. 



A small tree, 10-30 ft., resembling P. racemosa very closely, except in the larger 

 subsessile leaves. Leaves, those next the spikes 9 by 4f in., sometimes 6 by 3 in. ; 

 petiole \-^ in. , broadly channelled. Spikes as of P. racemosa, but rather larger ; 

 bracts ^ in., whitened, nervose, or inconspicuous. Corolla hairy in the throat. 

 Drupe (the few examined) 1-seeded, rather shorter and broader than in P. racemosa. 

 Gamble (Darjeeling List, 61, and Indian Timbers, 293) says that this and the next 

 are large climbers, and it is very probable that they are so sometimes. But Gamble's 

 plants being published with imperfect diagnoses, and some being wrongly identified, 

 the information regarding others is doubtful. 



3. P. bracteata, Wall. Cat. 1772 ; leaves short-petioled elliptic or 

 .obovate acuminate at both ends, spikes panicled and calyx densely pnberu- 

 lous. P. racemosa, Gamble Darjeeling List, 61 ?, not of Wall. Labiata? 

 Griff. Itin. Notes 199, n. 1138. 



SUBTROPICAL SIKKIM, alt. 2-3000-ft. ; J. D: H., &c. BHOTAN ; Griffith (Kew 

 Distrib. n. 6022). KHASIA MTS., alt. 4000 ft. ; Wallich, Griffith, H.f. $ T. 



A tree, 40 ft. ; innovations densely cinereous pubescent. Leaves 9 by 3| in., 

 subentire, mature glabrate, nerves 8 pair; petiole in., somewhat winged, or 0. 

 Panicles 7 by 4 in. ; bracts in., broadly lanceolate, acute, or ; cymes mostly in 

 distant capitate whorls on the panicle branches. Calyx ^ in.; lips entire shallow, or 

 sometimes one minutely 2-toothed, the other still more obscurely 3-toothed. Corolla 

 | in., white, as of P. interrupta but smaller, hardly hairy in the throat. Drupe 

 not seen. 



ft Cymes in compound corymbs. 



4. P. cordifolia, Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 78; leaves snbcordate-ovate 

 acuminate, corymb dense, pedicels very short hairy, corolla in. tube 

 cylindric densely hairy nearly to the base. Walp. Rep. iv. 94 ; Schauer 

 in DC. Prodr. xi. 632 partly, not of 'Wight or Beddome. 



PENANG; Roxburgh. SINGAPORE; Lobb. 



A shrub, 6-8 ft. Leaves 6 by 3 in., subentire, drying red, mature nearly glabrous, 

 nerves 5-6 pair ; petiole 1 in., fulvous-puberulous. Corymb 3-5 in. diam., mauy-nd. ; 

 bracts in., lanceolate, acute ; branches thick, shortly yellow-hirsute. Calyx -^ in , 

 scabridly puberulous, 2-lipped ; lips broad, rounded. Corolla-tube twice as long as the 

 calyx, densely filled with hair within in the lower part ; limb 2-lipped. Ovary 

 glabrous at the tip. Drupe % in. diam., subglobose, usually 3-4-seeded. Schauer's 

 diagnosis is taken from Roxburgh ; his description mainly from P. Perrottetil. P. 

 cordifolia, Wall. Cat. 2467, is not in Wallich's Herbarium ; but, as it came from 

 Gongachora, it is very unlikely to have been P. cordifolia, Eoxb. 



