822 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



15. Premna pyramidata, Wall. Cat. 1779 (1827). A small or 

 medium- sized tree (a large tree — Wallich), reaching 40 to 50 ft. in 

 height, and up to 5 ft. in girth; bark light greyish-brown; branches 

 stout, pale brown ; branchlets obscurely quadrangular, stellately tomen- 

 tose with tawny tomentum. Leaves chartaceous ; ovate, acuminate at 

 apex, cordate or rounded sometimes attenuate at base; both surfaces 

 brown when dry, the upper dark glabrous except on the nerves, the 

 lower pale glabrescent ; margins entire ; 6 to 14 in. long, 3 to 8 in. 

 broad ; midrib stout, stellate-tomentose on both surfaces ; main nerves 

 7 to 10 pairs, the lowest two pairs from near the base, the rest distant 

 at an angle of about 60° with the midrib, curving gently upwards and 

 joined by many regular transverse nervules very prominent on the 

 under surface ; petiole 1 to 4 in. long, channelled above, stellately scurfy- 

 pubescent. Cymes in large terminal stellately-pubescent pyramidal 

 panicles or corymbs, reaching 12 in. in length, and 6 to 9 in. in breadth ; 

 common peduncle 1 to 3 in. long ; branches at first 3- afterwards 

 2-chotomous, usually ascending ; bracts many, linear, reaching -5 in. 

 long ; flowers crowded at the ends of the branches on very short pedi- 

 cels, greenish-white. Calyx campanulate, glabrous within, stellately- 

 pubescent without ; tube -075 in. long ; teeth 5, subequal, about -025 in. 

 long, the posterior three thickened, the two anterior shorter and more 

 slender. Corolla bilabiate, "15 to -2 in. long ; upper lip broad ; lower 

 lip 3-lobed, the midlobe the longest and spreading, the side lobes 

 shorter and more obtuse, usually incurved ; tube with a ring of retrorse 

 stiff hairs at the throat, otherwise glabrous. Stainens 4, included; 

 anther-cells elliptic, slightly divaricate; filaments stout. Ovary 

 glabrous, depressed; style thickened with very shortly bifid stigma. 

 Drupe globose or obovoid, glabrous, depressed at top, -2 to -25 in. in 

 diam. ; pericarp fleshy ; pyrene rugose, very hard, 4-celled. Seed 

 usually 1 only, oblong. Schauer in DC. Prodr. XI. 633 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. 

 Bat. II. 897 ; Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. IV. 576. P. tomentosa, Kurz For. 

 Fl. II. 260. 



Perak : Wray 3691 ; Scortechini ; at Kwala Dipang, Bidley 9699 ; 

 King's Collector 923, 2039, 2667, 6851, 10298. Selangor: Bidley 

 7596. — DiSTRiB. Burma {Wallich 1779), Java {Teysmann 14), Timor 

 {Forbes 3892), &c. 



We have identified Teysmann's Java specimens as belonging to P. pyramidata, 

 but we are not sure if Koordera & Valeton (Bijdr. VII. 179) considered them to belong 

 to their P. tomentosa, which, judging by K^orders' own specimens 9714 /3 in the 

 Calcutta Herbarium, is not P. pyramidata. We have, therefore, not quoted Reorders 

 & Valeton. We agree with Sir D. Brandis (' Indian Trees,' 511) in thinking that 

 P. bengalensis, Clarke, is probably only a narrow-leaved form of P. pyramidata. 



