Premrta.] cxi. VERBENACE.E. (C. B. Clarke.) 579 



S. DKCCAN PENINSULA ; Heyne ; Sira Mullee, Wight- Anamallay Mts., Beddome. 



Appears a large rambling or subscandeut shrub. Leaves 3 by 2 in. (mostly 

 smaller), membranous, base obtuse or subcordate, undulate, rarely shallowly crenate, 

 mature nearly glabrous beneath ; nerves 5 pair, secondary distinct ; petiole \-\ in. 

 Panicle li in., pyramidal; in fruit often 2-3 in., oblong; bracts ^ in., lanceolate, 

 persistent, nearly glabrous. Calyx T ' } in., minutely scabrid, hardly pubescent. Corolla 

 5 in., glabrate without, subequally 4-fid. Drupe in., obovoid, dry tubercular-rugose. 



26. P. Thwaitesii, Clarke ; leaves ovate acuminate entire or remotely 

 crenate softly hairy beneath, panicles subthyrsoid densely shortly villous, 

 calyx shortly subequally 5-toothed. P. micrantha, TJvwaites Enum. 242, 

 not of Schauer. 



CEYLON ; Thwaites. 



A tree, 8-10 ft. (Thwaites). Leaves 3 by 1 in., base cuneate, minutely hairy 

 above, densely deciduously simply hairy beneath, nerves 5 pair; petiole | in., villous. 

 Panicle 1 by 1 in., densely branched; bracts in., linear, villous, persistent. 

 Calyx f'fl r ' 2 in., minutely appressedly hairy. Corolla fa- in., yellowish. Drupe in. 

 diam., globose, smooth. Possibly a var. of P. Wightiana, but not at all like P. 

 micrantha, Schauer. 



ft Leaves (mature] toothed (teeth sometimes very few in P. barbata). 



27. P. thyrsoidea, Wight Ic. 1. 1485 ; leaves ovate shortly acuminate 

 serrate mature glabrate, panicle thyrsoid villous or woolly, calyx pubescent 

 or villous shortly subequally 5-toothed. 



TRAVANCORE and COURTALLUM ; Wight. 



A small tree or large shrub (Wight). Leaves 3 by 2 in., base rhomboid or sub- 

 cordate, mature minutely pubescent on the nerves or glabrous; nerves 5 pair, secondary 

 distinct; petiole - in. Panicle (in flower) 4 by 2 in., densely branched; bracts 

 subpersistent. Calyx T ' a in. Corolla - in., glabrous without ; lobes 4, subequal. 

 Drupe ^ in., globose, verrucose-tubercular. Wight subsequently reduced this species 

 to P. Wightiana, Schauer, remarking that the thyrse was much larger. This may be 

 so, but in addition to the differences noted by Wight, the leaves are always serrate, 

 and the indumentum differs. Beddome's description of P. Wightiana (For. Man. 

 173) is designed to include the two. 



28. P. barbata, Wall. Cat. 1768; leaves oblong or ovate acuminate 

 more or less toothed mature minutely pubescent beneath, corymbs villous 

 with small simple hairs, calyx subequally 4-toothed glabrate or pubescent. 

 Schauer in DC. Prodr. xi. 636; Brand. For. Fl. 366. P. cana, Wall. Cat. 

 1783. 



SUBTROPICAL HIMALAYA, alt. 500-5000 ft., from Kumaon to Bhotan, frequent ; 

 Wallich, H.f. $ T., &c. 



A small tree or a shrub. Leaves 6 by lf-2 in., base obtuse sometimes subcordate, 

 usually distinctly toothed, sometimes with only a few teeth towards the tip, young 

 softly minutely pubescent on both surfaces, mature nearly glabrous above, nerves 6 

 pair ; petiole 1 in. Corymbs 1-2| in. diam., somewhat dense, in fruit sometimes 

 subglabrate ; bracts small, linear, deciduous. Calyx T ' 5 in. ; teeth oblong, obtuse. 

 Corolla |- in., 2-lipped, hairy in the throat. Drupe % in., globose or somewhat 

 obovoid, glabrous obscurely verrucose. 



VAR. anodon ; lea'ves very sparingly toothed, often nearly glabrous when young. 

 Sikkirn and Bhotan, frequent ; Clarke. 



29. P. pingnis, Clarice-, leaves ovate acuminate serrate mature 

 pubescent on the nerves, corymbs dense subsessile, calyx subequally 

 5-toothed glandular scarcely pubescent. Premna n. 22, Herb, Ind. Or. 

 H.f. $ T. 



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