Premna. 121 



slender, with shortly bifid stigma; ovary sparsely glan- 

 dular-dotted. 



Distribution: Little-Ceram. 



See annotation under P. punctulata Clarke. 



16. P. punctulata Clarke in Hook. f.. Fl. Br. Ind. IV 

 575 (1885); King and Gamble, Journ. As. Soc. Behg. 

 LXXIV, 4, 817. — A shrub or small tree; branchlets dark 

 brown; leaves chartaceous, broadly elliptic, suddenly shortly 

 acuminate at apex, rounded or obtuse at base; margins 

 entire; glabrous on both sides, punctulate beneath; pubes- 

 cent on the nerves beneath; pairs of neryes 4—5; 10—15 

 cM. long, 5— 71/2 cM. broad; petioles 2Va cM.; the lowest 

 pair of nerves very small, close to the base, the next pair 

 a little above, the rest more distant; corymbs many-flowered, 

 pubescent, 10— I2V2 cM. in diam. ; lower bracts 1.2 cM., 

 linear-oblong; flowers sessile or shortly pedicelled; calyx 

 0.15 cM., minutely grey-pubescent and glandular, 2-hpped, 

 upper lip 2-toothed or subentire, lower one 2-toothed; 

 corolla 0.25 cM., villous at throat within, lobes short, 

 rounded; stamens included; filaments inserted in the middle 

 of the corolla-tube, short; anthers reniform; cells slightly 

 divergent; ovary glabrous; style rather short; stigmatic 

 lobes slender, recurved; drupe not known. 



Distribution: Malacca. 



Perhaps this species belongs to P. ceramensis Miq. or is it 

 a variety of it. Less important points of difiPerence are the 

 somewhat cordate Icafbase and the exserted stamens of the 

 latter species. We did not see any specimen and cannot give 

 a final decision in the matter. 



17. P. divaricata Wall. cat. no. 1781 (1828); Schauer, 

 DC, Prodr. XI, 631; Hook. f.. Fl. Br. Ind. IV, 575; 

 King and Gamble, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. LXXIV, 4, 815. — 

 P. integrifolia Willd. in Ges. Nat. f. Fr., Neue Schrift. 

 IV. 187 (1803); Roxb. Fl. ind. Ill, 81. - P. lucidula 

 Kurz, For. Fl. Brit. Burma, II, 263, (1877). - A shrub. 



