260 VERBENACER. | Premna. 
PREMNA, L. 
Calyx cup- or nearly bell-shaped, 4-5-cleft or -toothed, or al- 
most 2-lipped, with the one or both lobes entire, persistent and a 
little enlarging. Corolla funnel-shaped, 2-lipped, with a short tube, 
the upper lip 2-cleft to near its middle, the lower 3-cleft or -parted ; 
rarely the limb almost regular and reflexed. eae 4, didyna- 
mous or almost equal, usually as long as the corolla. Ovary 4- 
celled, with a solitary pendulous or laterally BE ovule ; style 
filiform with 2 spreading stigmatic lobes. Drupe pea-like, sappy, 
Sabine a 4 or rarely by abortion 2-3-celled putamen. Seeds 
solitary, without albumen.—Trees or shrubs, sometimes scandent, 
rarely undershrubs, with opposite simple leaves. Flowers small, 
in terminal, trichotomous, corymb-like panicles or in cymes oF 
clusters forming a terminal spike or raceme-like contracted panicle. 
* Flowers in a petynioer eymes or panicles 
: ect tie rarely cakes shru 
mentose or velvety coger wine Stay 5-toothed. 
a parts stallate-to entose ; oer in pa . P. tom 
ae kere rh setuacrh; flower eyios e, fae coryinbs : oP, bere 
ost glabrous = Ss; calyx 4- 
xX othed. 
Leaves glabrous, except the — nerves ; flowers cymose, in 
corym . P. sambueina. 
xX XX Shrubs or undershrubs erect ; ‘calyx 6 -toot hed, 
often more or pene Rie leaves toothed, 
Gui =. % at len : t towards the a 
abrous ; petiole 2 ong; ¢ bs a a x rec . P. esculenta. 
Glabrous or the soot minutely — calye gh lea, : $ appearin g 
merit = narrow rounded cotyiibe wines or less 
PF, amplectens. 
All nts softly and shortly puberulous, the leaves while young 
: . P. macrophylla. 
en OSs andent shrubs or climbers. 
Leaves blunt, sabia: calyx 4-toothed co: pee : . BP. ee 
Leaves es acuminate, rous ; calyx truncate - Ps 
ves acuminate, more or less aera beneath; calyx’ 2-li 
pat and rece her P h; caly. rie ee 
xX Plowers clustered or in little cymes, arranged into 
more or less interrupted raceme or 
Leaves siatcoen: or nearly so :lesinnatiae rs sessile or gene Fs so. P, racemose. 
i; * oe _ Beda. Sylv. Madr., t. 251; Brand. 
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ae or less acme ; flowers small, yellowish white om 
minutely tomentose pedicels, forming larger or s i 
late-tomentose, brachiate, cymose panicles at the end of the re 
