264 VERBENACER. [ Premna. 
about a line long; corolla glabrous ; filaments pubescent at their 
insertion. 
Has.—Upper Tenasserim. 
GMELINA, L. 
Calyx cup-shaped, 4- or 5-toothed or sinuate-lobed. Corolla 
funnel-bell-shaped with an oblique 4-5-lobed limb, the lobes rather 
unequal, the 3 lower often larger and produced, the 2 upper ones 
often united in a 2-lobed upper lip. Stamens 4, didynamous, 
Ovary 4-celled, with a solitary ovule in each cell laterally attached 
at or above the middle ; style filiform, unequally 2-lobed. Fruit a 
‘fleshy drupe, the putamen hard or bony, 4- or rarely by abortion 
2-celled. Seeds solitary in each cell, without albumen.—Trees or 
tall shrubs, sometimes scandent, with opposite simple leaves. 
Flowers usually showy, in cymes arranged in an irregular terminal 
panicle or sometimes almost reduced to a simple raceme, or racemose- 
panicled. Bracts small. 
* Bracts small and deciduous, green, 
Leaves glaucous beneath ; corolla 2-lipped, the upper lip short, 2- 
MU . G. arborea. 
Leaves villous-pubescent beneath 3 corolla 4-lobed, the lobes almost 
equal, the upper one reflexed Se i a oe 
. 2% %* Bracts large and gaily coloured, densely imbricate. 
Spiny-armed ; leaves glabrous ; flowers large : - . @, Hystria. 
1. G, arborea, Roxb.; Bedd. Sylv. Madr. 253; Brand. For. 
Fl. 364.—Ya-ma-nay—aA tree (50——60 + 12—30 + 6—}2), leafless 
» acuminate or acute, on a 2-3 In. 
much larger and yellow-coloured ; drupes obovoid or ovoid, fleshy; 
the size of a plum, smooth and glossy, yellow. 
cE ty hae all — Burma from Ava and Chittagong down 
to Tenas- — 
pecially in the upper mixed forests and ‘also in the — 
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