126 Premna. 



lower half glabrous, the upper shortly white-villous within; 

 limb 2-lobed, upper lip and thfr lateral lobes of the lower 

 lip equal, the midlobe larger; stamens shortly exsert, 

 inserted just below the throat; pores of the anther-cells 

 elliptic; style as long as the stamens; stigma very shortly 

 bifid; ovary glabrous, depressed; drape obovoid, 0.6 cM., 

 waxy-white. 



Distribution: Malayan Peninsula, Sumatra. 



23. P. adenosticta Schauec. DC, Prodr. XI, 630, (1847); 

 Miq., Fl. Ind. bat. II, 892; Merrill, Phil. Journ. Sci. Bot. 

 I, suppl. I, 230. — A shrub?; branchlets, petioles and 

 inflorescences yellowy-tomentose or -farinose ; leaves mem- 

 branous, ovate, base rounded or acute, apex gradually 

 and long attenuate-acuminate, margins entire, stellate-hairy 

 when young, adult glabrous on both sides except on the 

 nerves; glandular beneath; pairs of nerves 7—8; 9—17 

 by 3V2— 8V2 cM.; petioles 2—6 cM.; corymbs 5—8 cM. 

 long, 6 — 12 cM. in diapi., lax, many-flowered; peduncles 

 172^-2 cM.; flowers polygamous (Schauer); calyx mem- 

 branous, almost hyaline, pubescent on both sides, glandular 

 without; 0.15^ — 0.2 cM. ; with four large, acute, deltoid 

 teeth; one of them sometimes with a small teethlet at its 

 margin; coro//a-tube 0.25 cM., glabrous below, hyaline, 

 very thin, upper half with outer side of lobes pubescent 

 and glandular; sparsely villous within near the throat; 

 lobes 4, subequal, 0.15 cM.; stamens 4, inserted in the 

 throat; filaments rather stout, glabrous, exsert, 0.2 cM. 

 long ; anther-cells divaricate with elliptic pores ; style short, 

 subincluded, with very shortly bifid apex; ovary glandular 

 in the upper half, smooth in the lower one; fruit for the 

 lower half in the calyx, 0.3 cM, long, 0.25 cM. in diam.; 

 apex slightly glandular; usually 2 of the seeds fertile. 



Luzon: Alvarez no. 22424, flow, in Febr. 1911, prov. 

 of Nueva Ecija. — Com. d. 1. fl. for. d. Fil. no. 1645, 

 Catbalongan. 



Distribution: Luzon! 



