92 SCHIZOPREMNA. 



There were no specimina of this species within our reach, 

 but from the descriptions we should say that it is identical 

 Tvith C. Blancoi. 



Doubtful species: 



38. C- mollis Sieb. et Zucc, Fl. jap. fam. nat. 526 (1844); 

 Forbes and Hemsley, Fl. Sin. II, 254 ; Koord. Med. 's Lands 

 PI. tuin Btz. XIX. 558 ; Miq. Ann. Mus. hot. Lugd.— Bat. II, 

 99; Maximowicz, Bull. Ac. Imp. Sci. St. Pet. XXXVI, 75. - 

 A shrub?; branchlets glabrescent; leaves ovate or lanceolate, 

 base cuneate, acute, subobtuse or sometimes somewhat cordate, 

 apex with an acute or obtuse acumen; margins rather coarsely 

 serrate, except near the base and the apex; teeth mucronulate; 

 pairs of nerves 5 — 6, soon branching; upper surface scabrid- 

 pubescent with simple hairs, lower one densely tomentose, both 

 sides glandular under the tomentum; 5 — 7 by 2V2 — 9V2 cM., 

 petioles 0.4—1.2 cM., (sometimes smaller, A^U by I'/j cM., 

 petioles 0.2 cM., perhaps a variety) ; cymes few-flowered, pubes- 

 cent; peduncles about twice as long as the petioles; bracteoles 

 linear, as long as the pedicels; flowers 4-, rarely 5-merous 

 {Miguel); calyx tubular, densely floccose and glandular, 0.25— 

 0.4 cM. long; segments lanceolate, about '/a of the total length 

 of the calyx; coroWa-tube shortly exsert, villous and glandular 

 along 4 lines, 0.3—0.45 cM., lobes obtuse, reflexed; anthers 

 exsert, glandular on backside; drupe glandular at top. 



Distribution: N.-Celebes? (Koocders), Japan. 



X. SCHIZOPREMNA Baillon. Hist. d. PI. XI, 119, 

 (1892); Engl. u. Prantl. Nat. Pfl. fam. IV, 3a, 166. - 

 Trees?; leaves opposite, simple; inflorescences cymose, 

 terminal, composed; flowers 4-merous, somewhat zygo- 

 morphous; ovary 4-celled, 4-ovuled, formed from two 

 2-celled carpels; style terminal, sunk down between the 

 only for Vg of their length connated cells of the ovary; 

 stigma bifid. 



Distribution: Timor. 



The genus differs from Premna only by the behaviour of the 

 style (and of the ovary?) 



