132 Premna. 



New-Guinea: Gjellerap no. 637, Sawia, Dutch N.-G., 

 100 M. in alt., with buds on Aug. 28th, 1911. — 

 Schlechter, no. 18468, in the forests at the foot of the 

 Bismarck-mountains, 150 M. in alt., flow, on Oct. 23rd, 

 1908; id. no. 18335, near Kenegia-river, 150 M., with 

 buds on 5-X-1908. 



31. P. membranacea Merr., Phil. Gov. Lab. Bur. Bull., 

 XXXV. 65, (1906); id., Phil. Journ. Sci. Bot. I suppl. 

 230. ■ — A shrub; branchlets, petioles and inflorescences 

 brownish pubescent; leaves membranous, elliptic-ovate or 

 -rotundate, sometimes -obovate, base rounded or cordate, 

 apex shortly and abruptly acuminate; both sides pubes- 

 cent, especially on the lower side and on the nerves; 

 margins entire; pairs of nerves 5^7; base 5-nerved; 

 6V2— 20 cM. long, 5—14 cM. wide; petioles 1.2— 7 cM.; 

 corymbs 10—14 cM. long, (3— )6— 14 cM. wide; bracts 

 subulate, 0.5 cM.; calyx yellow, pubescent, glandular, 

 0.15—0.2 cM., with 4 more or less obtuse teeth; obtusely 

 quadrangular; corolla glabrous without; tube 0.3 cM.; 

 lobes 4, subequal, rounded, 0.15 cM. long, reflexed; upper 

 half of the tube with the throat very densely villous with 

 long, stiff, white hairs; stamens 4, long exsert, subdidy- 

 namous, 0.3—0.4 cM., often not alternating with the 

 corolla-lobes, but inserted before them in the throat; style 

 0.4 — 0.5 cM., slender; stigma rather long bifid, lobes 

 subulate, 0.07 cM. long; ovary glabrous. 



Mindanao: Elmer no. 10578, Todaya (Mt. Apo), Davao. 

 flow, in May 1909. 



Luzon: Elmer no. 8275, Lucban, Tayabas, flow, in 

 May 1907. 



Distribution : Philippines ! 



32. P. rotundifolia Koord. et Vai, Bijdr. Booms. Java, 

 no. 7, 182, (1910); iid., Atl. d. Baumart. Java. 11 6, t. 

 284; Koorders. Exk, fl. v. Java, IH, 135. — P. rotun- 

 difolia Korthals, ms. — A shrub or a small tree, I'/o M. 



