112 Premna. 



572; King and Gamble, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. LXXIV. 4, 

 818; Miquel, Fl. Ind. bat. II, 895, partly; Hunter ex 

 Ridley, Journ. As. Soc. Straits, LIII, 102 — P. Doncaria 

 Buch.-Ham. ex Wall. Cat. no. 2147, (1828) — A shrub, 

 2Vo^4 M. high; branchlets, corymbs and upper side of 

 petioles tawny-pubescent; leaves membranous; ovate or 

 ovate-cordate, base rounded or cordate, apex acuminate; 

 margins entire; upper side glabrous except on the nerves, 

 bullate, lower side glabrous; 8 — ^17 by 5 — 7'/^cM.; petioles 

 1.2 — 2.5 cM.; pairs of nerves 5 — 6; corymbs many-flowered, 

 dense, about 7V2 cM. long and wide; flowers subsessile, 

 greyish- white; calyx 0.25 — 0.35 cM., 2-lipped, both lips 

 entire or upper lip 2-lobed, glabrous or nearly so; corolla- 

 tube 0.3—0.5 cM., 2-lipped, upper lip entire, lower lip 

 3-lobed; throat villous; stamens nearly included, as is 

 the style; drupe obovoid. 



Distribution: Malay Peninsula. 



4. P. parasitica Bl. Bijdr. 816, (1826); Schauer, DC. 

 Prodr. XI, 633; Koord. en Val. Bijdr. Booms. Java, no. 

 7, 185; iid. Atl. d. Baumart. v. Java II, 6, t. 282; Koord. 

 Meded., 's Lands PI. tuin Btzg.. XIX, 560; id. Exk. fl. v. 

 Java, III. 135; id. PI. Junghuhn, ined. Ged. boek Fr. 

 Jungh. 188; Hooker, W. /., Comp. Bot. Mag. I, 349; 

 Hall, f., Med. 's Rijks Herb. Leid. no. 37, 35; Miquel, 

 Fl. Ind. bat. II, 896; Hasskarl, 2e Cat. 's Lands PI. tuin 

 Btzg., 135; Spanoghe, Linnaea, XV, 330. — nofP. thri- 

 chostoma Miq. ex C/arA:e in Hook f., Fl. Br. Ind. IV, 

 575 (see annotation at P. thrichostoma on p. 128) — 

 A climbing shrub; branchlets, corymbs and petioles some- 

 what pubescent; leaves chartaceous, ovate or ovate-rotun- 

 date, sometimes obovate or obovate-oblong, base rounded 

 or somewhat cordate, apex abruptly and shortly acuminate, 

 sometimes acute; both surfaces glabrous or with some 

 sparse hairs; puberulous on nerves; pairs of nerves 5—7, 

 the lower pairs at a much greater angle with the midrib 



