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Java {Teysmann No. 10 ; Zollinger 645 ; Koorders 31425 /?), Sumatra 

 (Forbes 2621 — a climbing shrub). 



3. Peemna Derryana, King & Gamble in Kew Bull. 107 (1908). 

 A climbing (?) shrub ; branchlets smooth, brown, with large circular or 

 ellliptic lenticels. Leaves membranous when dry, subsessile ; elliptic 

 or obovate, shortly and obtusely acute at apex, attenuate and obscurely 

 auricled at base ; both surfaces shining, glabrous ; margins entire ; 5 to 

 8 in. long, 3-5 to 4 in. broad; midrib slender, impressed above, raised 

 beneath ; main nerves 7 to 8 pairs, often branched, curving upwards to 

 and along the margin where they anastomose ; transverse nervules 

 slender, and with the minor reticulations rather prominent. Cymes in 

 terminal panicles of three to four spikes, each spike with many inter- 

 rupted glomerules of sessile flowers, the inflorescence 6 to 8 in. long ; 

 main peduncles 2 to 2-5 in. long, secondary peduncles -75 to 1 in. long ; 

 bracts lanceolate, at the main divisions, -25 in. long. Calyx deeply 

 bilabiate ; the upper lip entire at first, afterwards 2-lobed, '125 in. long, 

 the lower one entire, "1 in. long ; tube golden-pubescent without. 

 CoroUa-tuhe rather longer than 'the calyx, glabrous except for a few 

 villous white hairs in the throat within ; hps 2, posterior lip emarginate, 

 erect, anterior Hp 3-lobed, the lobes obtuse, the midlobe the longest. 

 Stamens 4 long exsert ; filaments puberulous, twisted ; anthers reni- 

 form ; cells opening by oblong pores. Ovary glabrous, depressed ; cells 

 4, one only apparently seed-bearing ; style slender, as long as the sta- 

 mens; stigma of 2 slender horizontal lobes. Drupe not seen. 



Perak: on Lariit Hills, Derr?/ {Curtis 3701). 



4. Peemna integeifolia, Linn. Mant. II. 252 (1771) ; Cooke Fl. 

 Bomb. II. 426 ; Prain Beng. Plants, 830. P. serratifolia, Linn. I. c. 

 253 ; Schauer in DC. Prodr. XL 632 ; Bedd. For. Man. in Flor. Sylv. 

 CLXXII. ; Trimen Fl. Ceyl. III. 352. P. spinosa, Eoxb. Fl. Ind. III. 

 77. P. sambucina, Wall. Cat. 1775 ; Schauer, I. c. 631. " Gumira 

 littorea," Eumph. Herb. Amb. III. 209, t. 134. 



Var. angustior, Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. IV. 574 (1885). A 

 small shrub, 3 to 6 ft. in height ; branchlets nearly glabrous, the size of 

 a crow-quill, terete. Leaves elliptic or elliptic-ovate, obtusely acute at 

 apex, rounded or narrowed at base ; glabrous on both sides except on 

 the midrib and main nerves ; margins entire or obscurely crenate- 

 dentate in the upper half ; 2 to 3-5 in. long, 1 to 2 in. broad ; midrib 

 slender, puberulous above and raised, tawny- villous along the sides and 

 in the axils below ; main nerves 4 to 5 pairs, lowest 2 pairs rather close 

 to the base and long, the rest more spreading and curved upwards to 

 join in an obscure intramarginal looped nerve ; few transverse nervules 

 and reticulations obscure; petiole slender, puberulous, '25 to -Sin. long. 



