Premna. 125 



on the nerves; lower side areolate; areoles 0.1 cM. in 

 diam., each included by the reticulation of the smallest 

 nervules; pairs of nerves 5—9, usually 6; ZVj — 14 by 

 3—5 cM.; petioles 1—2 cM.; corymbs many-flowered, 

 10—12 cM. long, 7—10 cM. broad, peduncles 3—5 cM.; 

 bracts narrow, 0.5 cM. or less; calyx sessile, glabrous, 

 sparsely glandular, 0.2 cM.; 4-ribbed, quadrangular; trun- 

 cate or slightly 2- or 4- toothed; teeth wide; corolla whi- 

 tish, glabrous without; tube 0.3 cM., subinfundibuHform ; 

 lobes 4, subequal, the larger ones 0.15 cM.; throat densely 

 villous with long, white, stiff, up- and downward pointing 

 hairs; stamens 4, inserted in the throat, somewhat exser- 

 ted; filaments glabrous; style longer than the stamens, 

 0.5 cM.; stigma divaricately bifid; lobes 0.075—0.1 cM.; 

 ovary quadrangular, obscurely glandular-dotted at apex. 



Distribution : Basilan. 



It has a close affinity with P. Williamsii. Perhaps it would 

 be better, to treat this species as a variety of the present one 

 (both being described in the same paper and the latter begin- 

 ning with an a). 



22. P. Kunstleri King et Gamble, Kew Bull. 109, 

 (1908); iid.. Journ. As. Soc. Beng. LXXIV, 4, 821. — 

 A large shrub or small tree, sometimes cUmbing; branch- 

 lets, petioles and corymbs glabrous or nearly so; leaves 

 coriaceous, elliptic, sometimes elliptic-oblong or obovate, 

 base rounded or subcordate, apex obtuse with a short 

 blunt acumination; both surfaces glabrous; margins entire; 

 pairs of nerves 5^7, the lowest 2 pairs close to the base, 

 the rest more distant; 10— 17V3 cM. long, 6—10 cM. 

 broad; petioles 1.8—3 cM. long; corymbs spreading, long- 

 branched, 3-chotomous below, 2-chotomous above, reaching 

 I7V2 cM. in length and 127^ cM. in breadth; bracts 

 linear or linear-lanceolate, the lower ones leafy; flowers 

 subsessile; calyx 0.2 cM., truncate or very obscurely 

 2-lipped; corolla pale greenish-wite, 0.25—0.3 cM., the 



