Premna. 127 



24. P. oblongata Miquel, Fl. Ind. bat. II, 893, (1856); 

 Koords. en Val., Bijdr. Booms. Java, no. 7, 183; iid. Atl. 

 d. Baumart. Java, II, 6, t. 285; Koorders, Exk. fl. v. Java, 

 III, 135. — A shrub or a small tree; branchlets somewhat 

 quadrangular, with petioles and inflorescences slightly 

 puberulous; leaves oblong, sometimes rotundate, often 

 broadest across ^/^ from the apex; base rounded or sub- 

 cordate, apex abruptly short-acuminate; membranous, 

 sometimes chartaceo-coriaceous; margins entire or obscu- 

 rely denticulate; upper side sparsely pubescent or glabrous, 

 lower side sparsely brownish tomentose with simple hairs 

 or glabrous; pairs of nerves (4— )6; 872^ — 19 cM. long, 

 5— 6(— 9) cM. broad; petioles P/s— 2(— 3V2) cM.; corymbs 

 terminal with peduncles, which are from defoliate axils; 

 calyx subglabrous or glabrous, somewhat glandular; mem- 

 branous, very thin, 4-ribbed, 4-toothed; teeth usually 

 large, obtuse or subacute; the whole calyx 0.1 cM., some- 

 times somewhat 2-lipped; corolla 0.2 cM. glabrous or very 

 slightly pubescent; tube usually very short, as long as or 

 somewhat longer than the calyx, sometimes longer; lobes 4, 

 subequal; throat villous; stamens exsert; 0.1^ — 0.15 cM., 

 inserted in the throat; style reaching 0.35 cM., slender; 

 stigma horizontally bifid; ot^ary obovoid; apex glandular; 

 fruit obovoid, glabrous, 0.3—0.4 cM. long, 0.15— 0.2 cM. 

 in diam. 



Var. 01. puberula H. J. Lam, nov. var. — folia utrinque, 

 praesertim subtus, fulvo-subtomentosa, SVs — 16 cM. longa, 

 5—6 cM. lata. 



Luzon: Elmer no. 9388, Lucban, Tayabas, flow, in 

 ■ May 1907; determined as Pr. odorata Blco. and Pr. 

 pubescens Bl. 



Distribution; Java, Luzon! 



Var. /3 subglabra H. J. Lam, nov. var. — folia utrinque 

 glabra, nervis subpuberula, 10—19 cM. longa, 472— 

 9 cM. lata. 



