Premna. 1 1 1 



obscurely auricled at base; both surfaces shining, glabrous; 

 margins entire; I2V2'— 20 cM. long, 9—10 cM. broad; 

 pairs of nerves 7 — 8; cymes in terminal panicles of 3 — 4 

 spikes, each spike with many interrupted glomerules of 

 sessile flowers, the inflorescence 15—20 cM. long; main 

 peduncles 5^ — 6, secondary ones 2 — 2^/^ cM. long; bracts 

 lanceolate, 0.6 cM. ; calyx deeply bilabiate, the upper lip 

 entire as first, afterwards 2-lobed, 0.3 cM.; lower lip 

 entire, 0.25 cM.; tube golden-pubescent without; corolla- 

 tube rather longer than the calyx, glabrous without ; throat 

 sparsely white- villous; Hps 2, upper lip emarginate, lower 

 lip 3-lobed, the lobes obtuse, the midlobe longest; stamens 

 4, long exsert; filaments puberulous, twisted; anthers reni- 

 form, the cells opening by oblong pores; ovary glabrous, 

 depressed; style as long as the stamens; stigma with 2 

 slender horizontal lobes. 



Distribution: Malay Peninsula. 



2. P. Mariannarum Schauer, DC. Prodr. XI, 632, (1847); 

 Merrill. Phil. Journ. Sci. Bot., IX, 136 — A shrub?; 

 branchlets, inflorescences and petioles minutely, apressedly 

 pubescent; leaves ovate or subrotundate, base rotundate 

 or slightly cordate, apex rounded and shortly acuminate, 

 or obtuse; margins entire, adult glabrous on both sides, 

 the nerves pubescent beneath; 5 cM. long; petioles 1.25 

 cM.; inflorescences corymbose, small; calyx 0.25 cM., 

 2-lipped, upper lip shortly truncate, lower one entire; 

 corolla subequally 5-lobed; tube as long as the calyx; 

 throat villous; stamens and style exserted. 



Distribution : Marianne-Islands. 



It has an affinity with P. integrifolia, but differs from it by 

 its entire calyx-lips and its 5-lobcd corolla. The latter charac- 

 teristic, however, makes it rather doubtful, that the species 

 really belongs to Premna. 



3. P. cordifolia Roxb.. FI. ind. Ill, 78, (1832); Schauer,' 

 DC. Prodr. XI, 632, partly; Hook f.. Fl. Br. Ind. IV, 



