818 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



anastomose near the margin ; transverse nervules very prominent, as 

 is the netted reticulation ; petiole 1 in. long, slender, cha^nnelled above. 

 Corymbs many-flowered, terminal, paniculate, pubescent, 4 to 5 in. in 

 diam. ; lower bracts '5 in. long, linear-oblong ; pedicels very short or 

 none. Calyx -06 in. long, minutely grey-pubescent and glandular, 

 2-lipped, upper lip 2-toothed, lower lip also 2-toothed or subentire. 

 Corolla tubular, -1 in. long, villous at the throat within, glabrous below; 

 lobes short, rounded. Stamens included ; filaments inserted in the 

 middle of the tube, short ; anthers reniform ; cells slightly divergent. 

 Ovary glabrous ; style rather short ; stigmatic lobes slender, recurved. 

 Drupe not known. 



Malacca : Maingay (K.D.) 1200. 



10. Premna cordifolia, Eoxb. El. Ind. III. 78 (1832). A shrub, 

 reaching 8 to 12 ft. in height, with dark brown bark on the old wood ; 

 branchlets light brown, darker when dry, the size of a crow-quill, 

 glabrous, terete. Leaves membranous ; ovate or ovate-cordate, acumi- 

 nate at apex, rounded or cordate at base ; upper surface shining, buUate, 

 drying brown, glabrous except on the midrib and main nerves ; lower 

 surface also nearly glabrous, yellowish-brown when dry ; margins 

 entire, slightly recurved ; 3 to 7 in. long, 2 to 3 in. broad ; midrib 

 slender, but strongly raised beneath ; main nerves 5 to 6 pairs, at about 

 50° with the midrib, at first nearly straight and then curving to join in 

 a looped intramarginal nerve, each pair on the same side joined by few 

 (4 to 5) irregular transverse nervules and lesser reticulations ; petiole 

 slender, -5 to 1 in. long ; upper side tawny-puberulous. Corymbs many- 

 flowered, dense, terminal, tawny-puberulous, about 8 in. long, and the 

 same or rather more in diam. ; peduncles 1 to 3 in. long, with tawny- 

 puberulous leaf-like bracts ; bracts of corymb small, lanceolate, acute ; 

 branches at first decussate, then dichotomous ; pedicels very short, 

 rather thick ; flowers greyish- white. Calyx -1 in. long, 2-lipped ; upper 

 lip 2-lobed, lower entire ; lips short, broad, rounded. Corolla-tnhe 

 •2 in. long, funnel-shaped, densely villous within; limb 2-lipped; anther- 

 cells shortly divergent. Ovary glabrous ; style as long as corolla-tube. 

 Drupe obovoid, slightly depressed at top; exocarp thin, shining, black; 

 mesocarp fleshy ; endocarp hard, pitted, 3- to 4-celled, one cell usually 

 only fertile. Seed ovoid acute ; cotyledons flat, orbicular, "125 in. in 

 diam. Walp. Eep. IV. 94 ; Schauer in DC. Prodr. XI. 632, partly, not 

 of Wight or Bedel. ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. II. 895, in part only ; Clarke in 

 Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. IV. 572. 



Penang : at Tanjong Bunga, Curtis 861 ; Kunstler (King's Collector) 

 1480. Province Wellesley : at Krian, Bidley 9386. Singapore : 

 Lobb. 



