812 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



again as the calyx ; upper lip bi'oad, bifid, lower 3-lobed, the midlobe 

 longest ; all lobes rounded ; tube glabrous without, also within except 

 the belt of thick villous hairs just below the mouth. Stamens (in bud) 

 included ; filaments short, thick ; anthers reniform, very shortly 1- to 

 2-mucronate. Ovary subglobose, depressed, glabrous except for a few 

 glandular scales ; style thick ; stigma very shortly 2 -fid. Drupe 

 globose, glabrous, fleshy ; endocarp tuberculate ; cells 4, one only 

 usually fertile. Seed oblong, acute at each end ; testa membranous 

 with a corky outer layer ; cotyledons shortly oblong, obtuse, cordate, 

 •05 in. long, fleshy. 



Peeak : sea-coast at Matang, Wray 2719. 



2. Premna plavescens. Ham. ; Wall. Cat. 2649 (1828) ; Clarke in 

 Hook. f. M. Br. Ind. IV. 578 ; Prain Beng. Plants, 831. 



Vae. riibens, Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. IV. 578 (1885). A 

 shrub or small tree (a climber — Koorders & Valeton) ; branchlets the 

 size of a crow-quill, grey-pubescent, obscurely angled. Leaves charta- 

 ceous when dry ; ovate or ovate-oblong, acuminate at apex, cordate or 

 rounded or somewhat cuneate at base ; upper surface shining, sparsely 

 setulose especially on the nerves, lower surface tawny-pubescent ; entire 

 or the upper half obscurely and distantly toothed ; 4 to 6 in. long, 

 2 to 2'5 in. broad ; midrib rather stout, raised beneath ; main nerves 

 6 to 9 pairs, the lowest 1 or 2 (first very small) pairs from the base, at an 

 angle of about 40° with the midrib, curving upwards to and along the 

 margin, the upper ones joining in an intramarginal looped nerve which 

 ends in the midrib at the acumination ; transverse nervules many, 

 conspicuous on the lower surface ; petiole 1 to 1*5 in. long, slender, 

 puberulous. Cymes in terminal tawny-pubescent corymbs about 4 in. 

 in diam. ; branches 3- then 2-chotomous ; peduncle 1 to 2 in. long ; 

 bracts small, linear; pedicels short, under -05 in. long; flowers greenish. 

 Calyx campanulate, '05 to "1 in. long, pubescent without, 2-lipped, 

 upper lip 3-lobed, lower 2-lobed, all lobes obtuse, nearly equal ; fruiting 

 calyx saucer-shaped. Corolla funnel-shaped, "1 to "15 in. long, 2-lipped, 

 upper lip shortly bilobed, reflexed, lower 3-lobed, the midlobe longest 

 and oblong; tube much villous-hairy within. Stamens exsert; filaments 

 flattened ; anthers reniform, the cells nearly parallel. Ovary glabrous, 

 depressed ; style slender, as long as the stamens ; stigma 2-lobed, the 

 lobes slender, horizontally spreading. Drupe globose, -15 to '2 in. in 

 diam., with numerous shining glands ; endocarp tuberculate. Seed 

 oblanceolate, about 4 in. long, usually one only in each drupe; coty- 

 ledons fleshy, ovate-oblong ; radicle thick. P. lucidula, Miq. M. Ind. 

 Bat. II. 898 ; Koord. & Val. Bijdr. VII. 188. 



Malacca : Ayer Punnas, Griffith (K.D.) 6020. — Distrib. Burma, 



