Premna. 141 



Soc. Beng. LXXIV. 4, 814; Hassk., 2e Cat. 's Lands 

 Pl.tuin Btzg., 135; Miq., Fl. Ind. bat. II, 891, and suppl. 

 I, 243. — P. Gaudichaudii Schau.. I.e. 631. (1847); 

 Merrill, Phil. Journ. Sci. Hot. IX. 136; Hall. f.. i.e. 38. — 

 P. laevigata Miq. I.e. 895 and suppl. I, 243. — P. 

 media R.Br., Prodr. 512, (1827). — P. nitida K. 

 Schum. in Schum. u. Hollr., Fl. Kais.-Wilh.-land 120, 

 (1889); Merrill. Phil. Journ. Sei. Bot. I, suppl. I. 234; 

 Schum. u. Lauterb., Fl. D. Sehutzgeb. Siidsee. 523. — 

 P. opulifolia Miq. i.e. 898. — P. ovalifolia Wall. 

 cat. no. 1782. (1828). — P. ovata R.Br.. I.e. 512. — 

 P. sambueina Wall. I.e. no. 1775; Schau. DC, Prodr. 

 XI. 631. — P. seandens fiq/'., Hort. Maurit. 257, (1837). — 

 ■p. serratifolia Blco., Fl. Fil., ed. II, 342, (1845) — 

 P. serratifolia L. Mant. 253, (1771); J3/ume,' Bijdr. 

 815; Schau. I.e. 632; Gaertn., Fruct. I, 269; Roxb., Fl. 

 ind. Ill, 77; Hassk., 2e Cat. 's Lands PI. tuin, Btzg. 134. — 

 P. spinosa Roxb. I.e. (1832). — P. subeordata 

 Turcz. Bull. Soc. Nat. Mosc. XXXVI. II, 216, (1863). - P. 

 cuspidata Zipp. ms. — P. lasioneura Zipp. ms. — 

 A tree or shrub, sometimes climbing; branchlets subqua- 

 dranguiar, with corymbs and petioles above somewhat 

 pubescent or subglabrate, glabrescent; leaves, as most 

 other parts of the plant, very variable in form and size; 

 ovate or elliptic often rotundate-ovate, base subcordate 

 or truncate, rounded, rarely subacute, apex either shortly 

 obtusely or acutely acuminate or rounded, or gradually 

 acuminate; margins entire sometimes crenate towards the 

 apex; pairs of nerves in the smaller leaves (see plate II) 

 4—5, in the larger ones 6—7; upper side glabrous, 

 often pubescent on the midrib; lower one glabrous, often 

 barbellate in the axils of the nerves; smaller, often 

 nearly circular leaves 4 '/a— 7.2 by 4V2— 5.5 cM.; petioles 

 0.7 cM., the largest ones (with long acumen) reaching I6V2 

 cM. in length, 11.5 cM. in breadth, with a petiole of 



