574 cxi. VEBBENACE^E. (C. E. Clarke.) [Premna. 



Calyx ^ in., cup-shaped, nearly glabrous at flower-time. Corolla bearded in the 

 throat. Drupe (fide Roxburgh) size of a pea, globose, tubercled. The immature 

 drupes appear narrowly obovoid, and the plant hardly to differ from P. coriacea 

 var. oblong a, except in the thinner texture. Roxburgh says the petioles are some- 

 times hairy ; from which it may be doubted whether he did not erroneously refer 

 other things to this species. I cannot satisfactorily identify from the descriptions the, 

 P. scandens & cordifolia, of Brandis For. Flora. 



9. p. purpurascens, Thwailes Enum. 242; leaves broadly oblong 

 suddenly shortly acuminate entire glabrous, corymbs large closely pubescent, 

 calyx small truncate cinereous-pubescent. 



CEYLON ; Ambagamowa District, Thwaites. 



A large climber. Leaves 4% by 2 in., suddenly subobtusely acuminate, base obtuse 

 or subcordate, mature fulvous-puberulous on the nerves beneath or glabrate ; nerves 

 8 pair; petiole 1 in. Corymbs 6 in., straggling, with many small flowers clustered at 

 the ends of the branches. Calyx ^ in., obscurely 2-lipped. Corolla T ' 2 in., subequally 

 4-lobed, pale-purple, Thwaites. l)rupe not seen. 



VAB. ? paucinervis ; nerves 3-4 pair, not inarching except very close to the margin. 

 Anamallays, alt. 3000 ft., Seddome. A gigantic climber with the purple colour of 

 Thwaites' P. purpurascens by Beddome, and referred doubtfully thereto by him. 

 Beddome's specimen is very immature, but the nervation of the leaves i unlike that 

 of P. purpurascens, and may indicate a new species. 



** Calyx 2-lipped, one lip 2-toothed, the other subentire. 



10. P. integrifolia, Linn. Mant. 252 (excl. syn. Burm.).; leaves 

 broadly oblong or ovate subobtuse undulate or coarsely toothed mature 

 glabrous, corymbs dense minutely hairy, calyx sparsely minutely pubescent 

 or scabrid puberulous. Wight Ic. t. 1469 ; Brand. For. Ft. 366. P. ser- 

 ratifolia, Linn. 1. c. 253 ; Wall. Cat. 1767 ; Schauer in DC. Prodr. xi. 632 ; 

 Bedd. For. Man. 172; Kurz For. Fl.u. 263. P. spinosa, Roxb. Fl. Ind. 

 iii. 77. P. sambucina, Wall. Cat. 1775; Schauer 1. c. 631 ; Ktirz I. c. 261. 

 P. viburnoides, Wall. Cat. 2646, letter C. P. subcordata, Turcz. in Bull. 

 SGC. Imp. Nat. Mosc. 1863, ii. 21 6. P. ovalifolia, Wall. Cat. 1782. Gumira 

 littorea, Rumph. Herb. Amb. iii. 209, t. Io4. Gr. integrifolia, Hassk. Sort. 

 Bogor. 135. 



INDIA, near the sea from Bombay to Malacca. SILHET; Wallich. CEYJ.ON. 

 ANDAMANS ; andNicoBAES, Kurz. DISTRIB. Malaya. 



A small tree, or shrub ; trunk and large branches often spinous, branchlets 

 unarmed. Leaves 4 by 2 in. (sometimes 1 by ^ in.), subobtusely very shortly 

 acuminate or obtuse, sometimes obovate, entire sinuate or in the upper half with a 

 few coarse teeth, mature glabrous or-minutely hairy on the nerves above or beside the 

 nerves beneath ; nerves 4-5 pair ; petiole | in., usually somewhat pubescent. Corymbs 

 2-4 in. diam., short-peduncled, minutely cinereous-pubescent, and often with some ; 

 fulvous deciduous hair ; bracts J s in., lanceolate, pubescent. Calyx T ' 9 in. , 3-toothed. 

 Corolla ^ in., greenish-white, throat hairy, subequally 4-lobed. Drupe in. diam., 

 globose,.3-4-seeded. Some of the synonyms cued above are uncertain; specimens 

 with the calyx at all distinctly 5-toothed (rather- than 3-toothed) must be referred to 

 P. latifolia, Roxb. : it may be doubted whether any of the examples said to have 

 come (Brandis 1. c.) from Oudh and Gurwhal belong here. Gamble, however, says 

 (Darjeeling LUt, 60, and Indian Timbers, 295) that the tree is found in the Sikkfm 

 Terai ; and as he describes the tree as thorny, it would appear that he identified it 

 correctly. 



VAB. angustior; leaves elliptic narrowed at both ends obtuse, corymbs small. 

 Malacca; Griffith (Kew Distrib. n. 6030). -Leaves 2J by | in., widest about the 

 middle. Corymbs numerous, 1-2 in. diam. 



11. P. parasitica, Blume Bijd. 816 ; leaves ovate or obovate very 



