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11. Premna Wrayi, King & Gamble in Kew Bull. 108 (1908). A 

 climbing nearly quite glabrous shrub ; branches stout, obscurely quad- 

 rangular, dark brown ; branchlets similar, darker, smooth. Leaves 

 coriaceous ; elliptic or elliptic-lanceolate, gradually acuminate at apex, 

 attenuate at base, often unequally ; shining and glabrous on both sur- 

 faces except for small tufts of hair in the axils of the main nerves 

 beneath, olive-brown when dry* entire; 4 to 8 in. long, 2 to 4 in. broad; 

 midrib stout, impressed above, prominently raised beneath ; main 

 nerves 6 to 8 pairs, impressed above, raised beneath, the lowest pair 

 very faint from the base and close to the margin, the next stout and 

 shortly above, the rest distant at about 50° with the midrib, curving 

 upwards to and along the margin, the upper ones joined in a looped 

 intramarginal nerve ; transverse nervules straight and fairly regular ; 

 reticulations rather prominent on the upper surface when dry ; petiole 

 •5 to 2 in. long, channelled above. Corymbs dense and compact, about 

 4 to 5 in. broad at top, glabrate or very minutely puberulous on upper 

 branches and calyx ; lower branches 3-chotomous, upper 2-chotomous, 

 much ramified and curving inwards ; peduncle about 1 in, long, stout ; 

 main branches 1 to I'O in. long ; bracts very small, linear, the lower 

 ones leafy ; pedicels about "05 in. long to the joint below the calyx- 

 tube. Calyx deeply 2-lipped ; the upper lip sharply 2-lobed, the lower 

 3-toothed ; the lobes spreading in the fruiting stage ; tube rugose. 

 Corollu not seen. Drupe obovoid, "25 in. long and broad ; epicarp 

 rugose, glandular-dotted ; pyrenes 4. Seeds plano-convex, ovate, 

 •175 in. long ; testa white-corky ; cotyledons oblong, retuse at tip, flat, 

 fleshy, -15 in. long ; radicle '025 in. 



Peeak : at Tapa, Wray 200. 



At first sight this species resembles P. Kunstleri in its coriaceous shining leaves 

 and stout branches, but differs in the more compact corymbs and the deeply lobed calyx. 



12. Premna sterculifolia, King & Gamble in Kew Bull. 108 

 (1908). A stout, tree-like, climbing shrub; branches reddish-brown, 

 smooth ; branchlets terete, purple, sparsely scabridly puberulous 

 Leaves membranous ; ovate, acuminate at apex, truncate or somewhat 

 cordate at base ; both surfaces reddish-brown when dry ; upper sparsely 

 setulose and pubescent on the nerves, lower slightly puberulous, 

 sparsely glandular- dotted ; 4 to 9 in. long, 3 to 5 in. broad ; midrib 

 prominent, channelled above, raised beneath ; main nerves 6 pairs, 

 raised beneath, the 2 lowest pairs from close to the base spreading, 

 the rest at about 40° with the midrib, curved upwards to and along the 

 margin, joined by prominent transverse nervules ; petiole 2 to 4 in. long, 

 channelled above. Cymes in large spreading, slightly puberulous 



