150 Premna. 



branchlets round or nearly so, with petioles and corymbs 

 greyish-tawny-pubescent, woolly; leaves membranous, ovate 

 or subrotundate, base cuneate or subtruncate, apex obtu- 

 sely, shortly acuminate; margins entire; both sides pubes- 

 cent, especially beneath and on the nerves, sparsely glan- 

 dular; pairs bf nerves 3 — ^5; corymbs dense, many-flowered, 

 4 cM. long, 6 cM. in diam.; calyx 2-lipped, pubescent 

 and glandular, 0.1 cM. long; upper Up with 3 small, 

 acute or subobtuse, teeth, lower one larger, with 2 larger, 

 acute teeth; coroWa-tube short, glabrous without, 0.2 cM. 

 long; lobes somewhat pubescent without, 2 larger ones, 

 0.2 cM. long, and 2 smaller, 0.1 cM. long; all of them 

 with the throat more or less densely villous within; stamens 

 inserted in the throat, connated with the tube and thus 

 reaching its base; 0.3 cM. long, exserted; style 0.5 cM. 

 long; stigma shortly bifid; ovary glabrous. 



Distribution: Java. 



This species has a close affinity with P. latifolia, var. S, but 

 the latter has among other points of difference, not so charac- 

 teristically the barbate hairs on the inner side of the corolla-tube, 

 which gives the name to the species, and the flower is more 

 typically 2-lipped. 



47. P, latifolia Roxb., Fl. ind. Ill, 76, (1832); Hook, 

 f., Fl. Br. Ind. IV, 577. — A small tree; young parts 

 hirsutely pubescent; leaves ovate or ovate- rotundate, base 

 cordate and abruptly attenuate, or cuneate or rhomboid 

 or obtuse, apex shortly acuminate; margins entire, rarely 

 serrate, dusky pubescent, drying blackish above, cinereous 

 beneath, mature usually pubescent, at least on the nerves; 

 pairs of nerves 5—7; 5— 10(-15) cM. long, 2.7— 6(-7) 

 cM. wide, often smaller; petioles 0.5 — 1.4 cM.; corymbs 

 rather lax, terminal on main- and axillary branchlets, many- 

 flowered, 5 — 7Vs cM. in diam.; bracts small, caducous; 

 sometimes ferruginous-pubescent; calyx 0.15—0.2 cM. 

 long, strigose or patently pubescent, in fruit enlarged to 



