262 VERBENACER. [ Premna. 
subulate, glabrous ; calyx glabrous, hardly a line long, unequally 5- 
toothed ; corolla yellowish white with a golden blotch at the base of 
the middle-lobe, the throat pilose ; drupes obovoid, globular, smooth, 
purplish, the putamen tubercled. 
Has.—Chittagong.—Fl. Fr. nearly oo. 
5. P. amplectens, Wall.—A leaf-shedding low undershrub, 1-2 
ft. high, yearly sending up young flowering shoots, all parts glabrous 
or the young branchlets minutely puberulous ; leaves obovate-oblong 
to Ja obovate, more or less cuneate-narrowed towards the obtuse 
long, glabrous or nearly so, 5-toothed; corolla glabrous, the tube 
pubescent within; drupes almost globular, the size of a pepper- 
kernel, smooth, purplish, the putamen thin, obsoletely tubercled. 
Has.—Common in the mixed eevee, especially in the upper and lower ones, 
from Pegu and Martaban down to pper Tenasserim.—Fl. Fr. May-June.— 
SS.=o.—47/. 
6. P. macrophylla, Wall.—A leaf-shedding low undershrub, 
1-2 ft, high, yearly sending up flowering shoots after the jungle- 
fires, all parts shortly pubescent ; leaves obovate-oblong to oblong- 
throat bearded ; drupes globular or nearly so, surrounded by the 
tubular puberulous calyx, enlarged and up to 3 lin.long, thesize of = 
a pepper-kernel, smooth, bluish black, the putamen tubercled, only = 
2-celled by abortion. 
Pegu.—Fl. Fr. Apr,-June—l—S8.—Dit_La ome ™ = 
choostiestanag, oung parts minutely puberulous ; leaves obovate to 
