122 Premna. 



erect in the plains, climbing in the forest ^) (Schauer); 

 branchlets and inflorescences subglabrous or slightly pubes- 

 cent; leaves membranous when young, chartaceous when 

 older; ovate or elliptic, base rounded or subcordate, some- 

 times attenuate, apex briefly acute or bluntly acuminate, 

 both sides glabrous except on the nerves, sometimes some- 

 what pubescent, the lower one obscurely glandular-dotted, 

 and sometimes barbellate in the axils of the 5—6 pairs 

 of nerves; margins entire; 7V2 — I2V2 cM. long, 5— 9 cM. 

 broad; petioles 2^/^ cM.; corymbs many-flowered, dense, 

 divaricate, ZVs — I2V2 cM. in diam., peduncles 272—5 cM.; 

 bracts 0.3 cM.; flowers subsessile; calyx small, 0.1—0.15 

 cM., 2-lipped, upper lip entire or shortly 3-toothed, lower 

 one 2-toothed; teeth 0.07 cM., rounded or acute; corolla 

 0.25—0.3 cM., puberulous without, subbilabiate, subequally 

 4-lobed; stamens inserted in the densely villous throat, 

 exsert; style as long exsert as the stamens; stigma very 

 shortly bifid; drupe 0.5—0.6 cM. long and in diam. 



Distribution: Malayan Peninsula, Java. 



18. P. pcrakensis King et Gamble, Kew Bull. 107, 

 (1908); ad. Journ. As. Soc. Beng. LXXIV. 4, 816. — A 

 climbing shrub; branchlets and petioles glabrous, corymbs 

 tawny-pubescent; leaves chartaceous or coriaceous; elliptic- 

 oblong or -lanceolate, sometimes -obovate, base narrowed 

 or cuneate, apex shortly and bluntly acute, entirely glabrous 

 on both sides, slightly rugose; margins entire; pairs of 

 nerves 5—6; 772 — I2V2 cM. long, 4—6 cM. broad; pe- 

 tioles 1.3 — 2 cM.; corymbs spreading, reaching 15 cM. 

 in length and in diam.; peduncles stout, 0—773 cM. long; 

 lower bracts leafy; flowers sessile, pale green with white 

 stamens; calyx obscurely quadrangular, pubescent, nerved, 

 the nerves prominent in fruiting, 0.15 cM.; 2-lipped; upper 

 lip entire or obscurely 2-lobed, lower one 2-lobed {K. and 



') cf. Clerodendron inerme. 



