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Ovary depressed, glabrous ; style short ; stigma very shortly bifid. 

 Drupe globose, 4-sulcate ; epicarp rugose ; cells 4, all or fewer with 

 seeds. Seeds fusiform, keeled ; testa pale. Schauer in DC. Prodr. XI. 

 630 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. II. 891 ; Koord. & Val. Bijdr. VII. 192. 

 P. opitUfolia, Miq. I.e. 898. Gumira foetida, Hassk. in Flora, 25 beibl. 

 p. 26. " Gumira domestica," Rumph. Herb. Amb. III. 208, fide 

 Miq. & Schauer. 



Kedah : near sea-level, Kunstler {King's Collector) 1737. Perak : 

 on the coast at Matong, Wray 2493 ; near sea-level, Kunstler {King's 

 Collector) 1016. Johore : at Batu Pahat, Bidley 11137. Singapore : 

 cult., Bidley 6893.— Distrib. Java {Koorders 20179/3; Zollinger 2740) ; 

 Borneo {Haviland & Hose 3394, &c.). 



We follow Koorders & Valeton in putting P. opulifolia, Miq., under P. fmtida, 

 Eeinw. But our specimens agree better with the description of P. opulifolia than 

 with those of P. /(Efida. As pointed out by Koorders & Valeton, the description of 

 the calyx given for P.fatida as "obsolete sub-4-dentatus, vulgo 3-denticulatus, quarto 

 dente abortivo " is abnormal. That given for P. opulifolia is quite correct. 



6. Premna divaricata. Wall. Cat. 1781 (1828). A climbing shrub ; 

 branchlets slender, terete, nearly black when dry, with sparse rounded 

 or oblong lenticels. Leaves membranous when young, chartaceous 

 when older; ovate or elliptic, briefly acute or bluntly acuminate at 

 apex, rounded or attenuate sometimes subcordate at base ; upper sur- 

 face slightly shining, glabrous except the nerves ; lower dull, glabrous 

 except for villous hairs along the midrib and in the axils of the main 

 nerves, obscurely dotted ; entire ; 3 to 5 in. long, 2 to 3*5 in. broad ; 

 midrib slender, slightly impressed above ; main nerves 5 to 6 pairs, at 

 an angle of 40° to 60° with the midrib, the lowest 1 to 2 pairs from near 

 the base, curved upwards to join in loops near the margin ; transverse 

 nervules few, irregular, inconspicuous, as are the finely netted reticula- 

 tions ; petiole -5 to 1*5 in. long, channelled above. Corymbs divaricate, 

 many-flowered, slightly puberulous, terminal, reaching in fruit 5 in. in 

 diam., sessile or on peduncles 1 to 2 in. long, 3-chotomous below, 

 2-chotomous above ; bracts linear-lanceolate, small, the lowest some- 

 times leafy ; pedicels very short ; flowers greenish- white. Calyx cup- 

 shaped, prominently 2-lipped, the upper lip much longer than the lower, 

 with 2 rounded -03 in. long lobes ; the lower entire or shortly 

 3-toothed; tube rugose without and glandular-dotted. Corolla-tuhe 

 cylindric, "075 in. long, puberulous without, white-villous within on the 

 upper half ; limb 2-lipped ; upper lip short, retuse, broad ; lower lip 

 3-lobed, the midlobe longest, up to -075 in. Stamens inserted near the 

 mouth of the corolla-tube, slightly exsert ; anther-cells divai'icate. 



