Premna] LXXXII. YERBEXACEiE 511 



require further study on the spot. They may eventually prove not to be specifically 

 distinct. 



ft. Hairs as a rule not stellate. 



18. P. latifolia, fioxb. : Wight Ic. t. SHU.— Syn. H. ribm-nntile*, Kurz. Vern. Bakar, 

 Hind.; Pedda Nellakura, Tel. ; Kyetyo, Burm. Subhimalayan tract, from the Chenal. 

 eastwards, ascending to 2,000 ft. Oudh forests. Bengal plain. 'Western Peninsula. 

 chiefly on tin' east side. Burma, Upper and Lower. A small or middle-sized deciduous 

 tree, branchlets and young 1. pubescent or velvety, 1. membranous, with a strong un- 

 pleasant smell, generally drying black, blade 8-5, pet. J-f in. long. Corymbs hairy. 

 frequently at the ends of short leafy branchlets, fl. greenish-white, calyx hairy on 

 linth sides, densely outside teeth o. corolla J. in. long, very hairy within. A most 

 variable species, J', mucronata, Eoxb. (Brandis F. Fl. 3t><i) with acuminate 1. with a 

 cuneate base, may be a distinct species. 19. P. milleflora, Clarke. Assam. Manipur. 

 L. hairy along nerves, pet. 2-3 in. long. H. x in large corymbs, up to \l in. Jiaui. 2<>. 

 P. flavescens, 11am. Sikkiin Terai. Dacca, Chutia Xagpur. L. more or less villous 

 beneath, upper side with scattered stiff hairs, blade 5-7, pet. 1 in. long. 21. P. micrantha, 

 Schauer. Silhet. Similar to 20, 1. smaller, fl. minute. 



(c) Calyx equally 4-5-toothed, 1. glabrous or nearl)' so. 



22. P. glaberrima, Wight Ic. t. 1-184 ; Bedd. Man. 172. — Syn. P. integerrima, 1 1. 11. 1 larke. 

 Tinnevelly liills. A shrub, 1. elongate-elliptic, acuminate, hlade 6-8, pet. y in. Corymb 

 broad, minutely pubescent. 23. P. Wightiana, Schauer. Southern portion of Western 

 Peninsula. L. with few minute hairs, blade 1-3. pet. slender, I in. long, inflorescence 

 narrow, pyramidal. 



C. Inflorescence corymbiform or pyramidal, 1. usually dentate. 



21. P. barbata, Wall. Vern. Ganhila, Ph.; Bakar, Lammar, Hind. Subhimalayan 

 t ran and outer Himalayan ranges, from the Punjab eastwards, ascending to tj,000 ft. 

 Western Duals in Sal forest (H. 11. Haines). A>sain. Khasi hills. Singhhtnn. Centr. 

 PrOV. Upper Burma. A shrub or small tree. I. serrate., sometimes cut ire with only a 



few teeth towards the tip, ovate, base rounded or cordate, underside minutely pubescent, 

 blade 8-6, pet. slender. 1-2 in. long, the fine reticulate veins dark. conspicuous- 

 Cymes trichotomous, compound, dense, clol lied with minute simple hairs, calyx-lobes 1. 

 enlarged and ribbed in fr., corolla J in. long. 25. P. esculenta, Roxb. Assam. Chitta- 

 gong. A short -stem tned shrnh, entirely glabrous. 1.. sharply, usually deeply serrate, 

 r>-7 iii. lonu'. pet. very short, corymbs di'nse. glohosi' on short peduncles. 26. P. thyr- 

 soidea, Wight [c. t. 1485. Palni, Tinnevelli and Travancore hills. A large shrub or 

 1 tree, trichotomous cymes arranged inn terminal woolly thyrsus, calyx hairy, ■ <- 

 toothed. corolla-tube twice the length of calyx. 



II. Low undershrubs. from a woody rootstock. annual stems with 1. and fl. 

 which tiro burnt down by the jungle tires of the hot season. 



'27. p. pinfruis, Clarke. As-am. Khasi hills, Upper Burma, similar to ]'. barbata, 

 Wall. 28. P. amplectens, Wall. Pegu, and 29. P. macrophylla, Wall. Manipur. Pegu 

 and Martaban. Similar to P. esculenta, Roxb. 30. P. herbacea, lioxh. Subhimalayan 

 tract in grasslands from Kashmir east ward-, singiihum. Manipur. Southern pari of 



Western Peninsula I Bedd.). Annual stems very short, with llai rosettes of -J or :! pairs 



of sessile cuneate pubescent 1.. l -5 in. long, falsely whorled, internodes not developed. 

 Fl. white, drupe black, globose. 31. P. nana. Colletl el BTemsl in Journ. Linn. Soc. 

 xxviii. 109. Shan hills ::.iKKi ft. Pegu (D. B. 1868). rntemodes developed, annual 

 stem- np t.. 6 in. high with 3-1 pairs of softly tomentose oblanceolate 1.. drupe ovoid. 



1). CALLICARPA, Linn. : Fl. Brit. [nd. iv. .".tit;. 

 Shrubs, generally clothed with soft stellate tomentum. I., simple. PI. 



pnrple or red. ill axillary dichotomOUS cymes, branches divaricate, bracts small. 



tomentose. Calyx small, campannlate, minutely I-. rarely 5-dentate, corolla- 

 tube short, litnli spreading, lobes I, rarely 5, Dearly equal, stamens exserted. 



Fr. a small succulent drujie, the endocarp of I distinct I s.eded pyiones. 

 Species SO K). [ndo-Malayan region. ( Ihina, .la pan. Australia, Islands of the 

 Pacitic, North- and Central- America. 



A. Petiole long, I. entire, sinuate or slightly dentate. 



I. C. arborea, Roxb. \'ern. QhiwGla, ILumaon; Goehlo, Nep. ; Daung 

 satjn/a. Lower, Sigye, Upper Burma, 



