Premna. 119 



longa, 1.8—5 cM. lata; petiolo 0.8—1.5 cM. longo, gracili; 

 corymbus terminalis, 6—12 cM. longus, 4—5 cM. latus, 

 flores parvi, subsessiles; calyx 0.15 cM. longus, glaber, 

 subbilabiatus vel subtruncatus, labio inferiore obtuse 2-den- 

 tato, labio superiore integro vel subundulato; dentibus 

 parvis, latis, obtusissimis vel subacutiusculis; corolla extus 

 glabra, alba vel albo-viridis, 0.3 cM. longa, tubo 0.2 cM. 

 longo, subbilabiata, labio superiore lato integro, inferiore 

 profunde 3-lobo ; fauce paulo angusteque villosa, ceteroquin 

 intus glabra; stamina subinclusa, fauce inserta; stylus paulo 

 exsertus, apice brevissime 2-fidus, 0.25 cM. longus; ovarium 

 subcylindricum, depressum, glabrum; drupam non videmus. 



New-Guinea : Ledermann, no. 13017, Felsspitze in the 

 mountain-woods, 1400—1500 M. in alt.; with flow, and 

 buds on Aug. 20*, 1913; id. no. 9493, Etappenberg, 850 

 M.; with buds on 24-X-1912. 



Our species has an affinity with P. timoriana, but differs very 

 distinctly from it by the attenuate base of its entirely glabrous 

 leaves, its hardly toothed calyx, its smaller flowers, and the 

 broad midlobe of the lower lip of its corolla. 



14. P. timoriana Decne. in Nouv. Ann. Mus. Par. Ill, 

 402, (1834); Schauer. DC, Prodr. XI, 631; Forfees, Wand. 

 Nat. f. MaL^Arch. II, 226; Miq., Fl. Ind. bat. II, 893; 

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

 Linnaea XV, 330; Schumann, Engl. Jhrb. IX, 220; Zoll. 

 u. Mor., Syst. Verz. 52 — P. tiliaefolia Zipp. ex 

 Spanoghe I.e., ms. — P. syringaefolia Zipp ex Spa- 

 noghe I.e., ms. — A shrub?; branchlets, inflorescences and 

 upper side of petioles minutely, sparsely pubescent, gla- 

 brescent; leaves ovate or ovate-lanceolate, base obtuse, 

 narrow, apex acute or subobtuse, or subacuminate, adult 

 glabrous above except on the midrib, glabrous beneath, 

 often somewhat barbellate in the axils of the nerves; 

 membranous; margins entire or coarsely dentate towards 

 the apex; pairs of nerves 5—7, little prominent; 3—9 by 



