124 Premna. 



style with shortly bifid stigma; ovary glabrous, globose; 

 drape pink, 0.35 cM. in diam. and in length. 



Luzon: Curran no. 10678, Camarines, with flow, and 

 young fr. in June 1908. 



Distribution: Luzon. 



20. P. cauliflora Stapf, Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. U, IV, 

 215, (1894). — A small tree; branchlets quadrangular, 

 glabrous or nearly so; inflorescences appressedly stellate- 

 hairy; leaves broadly oblanceolate, apex acuminate, mar- 

 gins crenate-denticulate, chartaceous; pairs of nerves 

 10 — 12; petioles 1.3 cM. long; cymes sessile at branchlets 

 of the present or of the former year from the increased nodes, 

 1.3 — 2 cM. long; the upper leaves being fallen in the 

 flowering-time; pedicels L5 cM.; calyx 0.25—0.3 cM., 

 subtruncate or with 4 small teeth, somewhat stellate-hairy 

 near the base; corolla white; tube 0.45^ — 0.5 cM.; 4-lobed; 

 lobes subequal, glandular without; throat glabrous (!); 

 stamens 4, subequal; style somewhat longer than the sta- 

 mens, shortly bifid at apex; ovary yellowy-glandular, 1 

 (1 H. /. L.)-celled, 4-ovuled; ovules laterally attached; drupe 

 ovoid or globose, sometimes somewhat quadrangular, 0.5 cM. 

 long with 4 pyrenes (1? H. J. L.), and a central cavity. 



Distribution: Penokok (Borneo). 



This species, of which we did not see any specimen, is — 

 if it is really a- Premna — a very curious one by its inflores- 

 cences, its very long pedicels, its glabrous corolla-throat. The 

 description seems to be a rather inaccurate and incomplete one; 

 the ,,4-pyrened" fruit probably is a mistake for a fruit with one 

 4-seeded pyrcne. It may be, that it is related to Schizopremna. 



21. P. arcolata Merr., Phil. Journ. Sci. Bot. X, 73, 

 (1915). — A scandent shrub, 25—30 M. long; branchlets 

 round, with the petioles glabrous; inflorescences ferrugi- 

 nous-pubescent; leaves membranous or subchartaceous, 

 oblong, base rounded or acute, apex shortly and subab- 

 ruptly acuminate or acute; glabrous on both sides, even 



