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high; petioles and corymbs hirsutely pubescent; leaves 

 opposite, sometimes one of each pair somewhat higher 

 than the other; large elliptical-ovate, sometimes -subrptun- 

 date or -obovate; base rounded or subcordate, sometimes 

 unequal; apex acute or cuneate, or very shortly, acutely 

 acuminate; chartaceous; margins entire; both sides sub- 

 hirsutely or hirsutely pubescent, especially beneath and 

 on the nerves; pairs of nerves (4— )5. — 7, the 2 lower 

 pairs close to the base; 12^ — 26V2 cM. long, 7—19 cM. 

 wide; petioles 2— SVs cM.; corymbs wide, with opposite 

 and alternate branchlets; ZVg — 15 cM. long, 7—20 cM. 

 wide; peduncles 3—4 cM.; flowers subsessile; calyx sub- 

 equally 4-toothed, somewhat 2-lipped; 4-ribbed; very hir- 

 sutely pubescent, obscurely glandular; 0.1 cM.; teeth acute, 

 0.03 cM.; coroHa-tube slender, 0.25—0.35 cM., glabrous 

 without, throat densely villous within; lobes 4, subequal, 

 somewhat pubescent without, 0.1 cM. long; stamens long 

 exserted; filaments slender, inserted in the throat; style 

 slender; stigma long horizontally bifid; lobes subulate; 

 ovary glabrous, apex with some white glands ; drupe oblong, 

 0.4—0.5 cM. long, 0.15—0.2 cM. broad; glabrous, obs- 

 curely glandular-dotted. 



Java: Zollinger no. 1503 (P- rotundifolia Korthals) — 

 Korthals in H. L.-B. sub nos. 908.266-845, 1385, 

 1387, 1397, 1398. (all of them P. rot. Kths.); also in 

 Sumatra? 



Distribution: Java!, Sumatra? 



Section II Premnos Hassk. 



33. P. sessilifolia H. J. Lam, nov. spec. — Frutex?; 

 innovationes glabrae vel subglabrae; folia opposita, sessilia, 

 ramulorum apices versus conferta, ramulis crassiusculis ; 

 superiora paulo quam inferiora minora vel aequalia; mem- 

 branacea, obovata, margine irregulariter remoto-sinuata. 



