814 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



Corymbs puberulous, terminal or pseudo-axillary in upper axils, up to 

 2 in. broad ; sessile or on peduncles up to 1'5 in. long ; branches at first 

 3- afterwards 2-chotomous ; bracts minute, lanceolate ; pedicels very 

 short ; flowers greyish-white. Calyx 2-lipped ; upper lip with 2 trian- 

 gular lobes, lower obtuse, obscurely 2- to 3-dentate ; tube rugose and 

 puberulous without, -05 in. long. Corolla-tube cylindric, •! in. long, 

 puberulous ; limb 2-lipped ; upper lip subequally 3-lobed, the middle 

 lobe slightly the longest and incurved ; lower lip rounded obtuse, 

 rather shorter, scarcely '05 in. long ; upper half of tube within thickly 

 white-villous. Stamens slightly exsert ; anther-cells slightly di- 

 varicate. Drupe obovoid, depressed at top, rugose and obscurely 

 ribbed, -IS in. long ; endocarp ribbed, bony, 4-celled. Seeds ovoid, 

 acute ; testa pale, slightly corky ; cotyledons flat, shallowly emarginate 

 at top. 



Kbdah : Langkawi Island, Curtis 2955. Penang : Kunstler {King's 

 Collector) 1670 ; J. Scott. Peovince Wellesley : at Batu Kawan, 

 Ridley 9353. Malacca : Griffith (K.D.) 6030 ; Maingay (K.D.) 1201. 

 Singapoee: Ridley 8900. — Disteib. Amherst in Tenasserim, i^afcower; 

 tidal forests of Tavoy, W. A. Hearsey. 



5. Peemna fcetida, Eeinw. ex Blume Bijdr. 816 (1825). A large 

 shrub or small tree with spreading branches, reaching 20 to 30 ft. in 

 height ; bark white ; branchlets subtetragonous to cylindric, tawny- 

 pubescent, as are the young leaves, the nerves of the mature leaves, and 

 the inflorescence; nodes with a prominent villous ridge joining the 

 bases of the petioles. Leaves chartaceous ; ovate, sometimes ovate- 

 lanceolate, rarely ovate-oblong, shortly acuminate at apex, rounded or 

 truncate or slightly cordate at base ; shining on the upper surface and 

 dark when dry ; paler, often almost grey on the lower surface ; margins 

 entire or slightly repand above ; 3 to 6 in. long, 2 to 3-5 in. broad ; midrib 

 slender, prominent beneath ; main nerves 6 to 8 pairs, the lowest 2 pairs 

 almost from the base, the lowest spreading, the rest at about 45° with 

 the midrib, gently curving to and along the margin ; transverse nervules 

 rather distant, irregular; petiole "75 to 2 in. long. Corymbs lax, reach- 

 ing 5 in. long and broad, subsessile or on about 1 in. long peduncles, 

 3-chotomous below, 2-chotomous above; the branches divaricate; bracts 

 very small, linear ; pedicels short, under -05 in. long ; flowers white. 

 Calyx cup-shaped, "05 to "075 in. long, 2-lipped, upper lip acutely 

 2-lobed, lower very shortly 3-lobed ; tube puberulous without. Corolla- 

 tube funnel-shaped, '1 in. long, densely white-villous in the upper half 

 within ; obscurely 2-lipped, upper lip short, lower 3-lobed, recurved, 

 the midlobe longest and incurved. Stamens attached to the throat of 

 the corolla-tube, shortly exsert ; anther-cells elliptic with elliptic pores. 



