Premna. 137 



branchlets, corymbs and petioles grey- or rusty- villous ; 

 leaves chartaceousv ovate or ovate-oblong, sometimes 

 obovate, base obtuse or subcordate, sometimes subcuneate, 

 apex acuminate; upper surface sparsely setulose, especially 

 on the nerves, lower surface tawny-pubescent, or glabrate, 

 minutely glandular; margins entire, pairs of nerves (4 — ^)6— 7; 

 (7^)10-15 cM. long. (4Vs-)5— 67^ cM. wide; petioles 

 (1.3— )2V2— 4 cM.; corymbs 10—17^/^ cM. in diam., pe- 

 duncles 27a — '5 cM.; bracts small, linear, 0.6 cM. ; calyx 

 0.15— 0.25(— 0.3) cM., pubescent without, 2-lipped, upper 

 lip 3-, lower 2-toothed, teeth obtuse or subacute, 2 

 somewhat larger, or subequal, all teeth puberulous within; 

 corolla greenish, tube 0.3—0.5 cM,, glabrous without, 

 throat densely villous; 2-lipped, upper lip entire or slightly 

 2-lobed, lower one 3-lobed, the midlobe larger, all lobes 

 reflexed, 0.2 cM.; stamens exsert, inserted in the throat, 

 0.4 cM. long, subdidynamous; style slender, as long as 

 the stamens; stigma with 2 horizontally spreading lobes; 

 oi^ary glabrous; drape globose, 0.4^ — 0.5 cM. in diam., 

 glandular. 



Var. a- typica H. J. Lam, nov. var. — folia subtus 

 ferrugineo- vel fulvo-pubescentia. — E. Bengal. {Clarke 

 in Hook, f.) 



Var. |3 glabrior Clarke in Hook, f., I.e. — leaves sparsely 

 pubescent or glabrate beneath. — Sikkim, Silhet (Clarke 

 in Hook, f.) 



Var. y rubens Clarke, I.e. — P. lucidula Miq. (fide 

 King and Gamble). Fl. Ind. bat. II, 898; Koord en Val, 

 Bijdr. Booms. Java, no. 7, 188; Koord. Exk. fl. v. Java, 

 III, 135. — leaves sparsely pubescent or glabrous beneath, 

 dry usually reddish. — Burma, Malacca, Sumatra, Java. 

 (King and Gamble). 



Distribution of the species: E. Bengal, Sikkim, Silhet, 

 Malacca, Sumatra, Java. 



38. P. membranifolia Merr., Phil. Journ. Sci. .Bot. 



