Premna.] cxi. VERBENACE^;. (C. B. Clarke.) 573 



5. P. corymbosa, Bottl. Sf Willd. in Gesell. Nat. Freunde Neue 

 Schr. iv. (1803) 187, 188 ; leaves subcordate-ovate acuminate undulate, 

 panicles dense branches dichotomous slender glabrate coloured, corolla 5 in. 

 tube cylindric hairy near the top. P. densiflora, Wall. Cat. 1773. P. 

 cordifolia, Wight Ic. t. 1483; Bedd. For. Man. 172 ; Schauer in DC. Prodr. 

 xi. 632, partly ; Dalz. Sf Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 199 ?, not of Roxb. P. truncata, 

 Turcz. in Bull. Sac. Imp. Nat. Mosc. 1863, ii. 215, ex. descr. Cornutia 

 corymbosa, Burm. Fl. Ind. 133, t. 41, fig. 1, not of Lamk. 



CABNATIC; Wight, Shuter; Cuddapah Hills, Beddome. CEYLON; Burmann, 

 Thwaites, C. P. n. 193. 



Leaves 3 by 1| in., young sometimes woolly, mature nearly glabrous, upper 

 surface impressed reticulate; petiole 1 in., pubescent. Panicles small, pyramidal, 

 very dense, brachiate, patently deciduously pubescent with simple hairs ; bracts nar- 

 rowly lanceolate. Calyx T ' 5 in., early glabrate ^ in fruit enlarged, 2-lipped, membra- 

 nous or whitened. Corolla tubular, limb subequally 4-lobed. Drupe in., obovoid, 

 3-4-seeded. 



6. P. coriacea, Clarice ; leaves cordate ovate or orbicular shortly 

 acuminate mature coriaceous glabrous, corymbs large compound, corolla 

 in. P. cordifolia, Grah. Cat. PI. Bomb. 155, not of Koxb. P. scandens, 

 Dalz. # Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 199, not of Roxb. 



W. DECCAN PENINSULA, in the Ghauts, from Bombay to Cochin, common ; Wight, 

 Graham, HohenacJcer, &c. 



A large climber (Ritchie) or a tree (Graham). Leaves 5 by 3 in., entire, mature 

 very shining smooth, nerves 4-5 pair ; petiole 1 in. Corymb 8 in. diam., 3 in. high, 

 closely shortly hairy ; bracts | in., lanceolate, scattered. Calyx T ' 2 in , cup-shaped, 

 truncate, hardly 2-lipped, minutely pubescent. Corolla greenish-yellow, throat 

 hairy. Drupe \ in., 1-seeded, narrowly obovoid. 



VAB. oblonga; leaves elliptic or o'nlong often caudate. P. scandens, Wall. Cat. 

 1774, partly. Premna n. 23, Herb. Ind. Or. H.f. % T. Khasia Terai; H.f. Sf T. 

 Nathpur; Hamilton. Sikkim Terai; Clarice. A tree, 20-40 ft. 



VAB. cuneata ; leaves oblong base cuneate often caudate. Premna n. 23, Herb. 

 Ind. Or. H.f. $ T. Khasia Terai ; Silhet and Pundua, H. f. Sf T. 



7. P. villosa, Clarice ; leaves cordate-ovate shortly acuminate mature 

 densely villous beneath, corymbs large compound closely pubescent, corolla 

 in. Premna n. 25, Serb. Ind. Or. H.f. $ T. 



DECCAN PENINSULA ; Mts. of Kurg, Wight, G. Thomson ; Wynaad, alt. 30CO ft., 

 Beddome. 



A tree (or a large climber, Heddome), closely resembling P. coriacea except as to 

 the indumentum. Leaves (mature) densely villous with simple straight hairs beneath, 

 most copiously on the nerves, glabrate above ; petiole 2 in. Corymb, calyx, 

 corolla, and young drupe as of P. coriacea, of which this may be a var., as Beddooae 

 suspects. 



8. P. scandens, Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 82 ; leaves petioled elliptic and 

 acuminate or lanceolate entire membranous glabrous, corymbs large com- 

 pound lax puberulous mauy-fld., calyx subentire membranous in fruit, 

 corolla scarcely in. Schauer in DC. Prodr. xi. 632 ; Kurz For. Fl. ii. 

 263. P. ramosa, Wall. Cat. 1774. Premna n. 24, Herb. Ind. Or. 

 H.f. 8f T. 



TEBAI of N. and E. BENGAL, frequent ; SIKKIM, J. D. H., &c. ; BHOTAN and 

 ASSAM, Griffith (Kew Distrib. n. 6034). SILHET ; Roxburgh, Wallich ; CACHAE, 

 Keenan. MAKTABAN; Kurz. 



A tree, 20-40 ft., or (fide Roxburgh) a large climber. Leaves 11 by 4 in., base 

 rounded or cuneate, nerves 6 pair ; petiole 1| in., glabrous. Corymbs 4-10 in. diam. 



