152 Premna. 



Distribution of the species: British India (Clarke), 

 Phihppines! 



48. P. pubcscens BL Bijdr. 816 (1826) s.a.; Schauer^ 

 DC. Prodr., XI, 634; Koord. en Val., Bijdr. Booms, 

 Java no. 7, 186; iid. Atl. d. Baumart. v. Java II, 6, t, 

 287; Hall, f.. Med. 's Rijk Herb. Leid. no. 37, 38; AToor- 

 ders, Exk. fl. v. Java, III, 135; Miquel. Fl. Ind. bat. II, 

 897; Zoll. und Mor.. Syst. Verz., 52. — A climbing or 

 suberect shrub or small tree {Coifs for var. a); branchlets, 

 petioles and corymbs densely rufous-pubescent; hairs simple; 

 leaves ovate or ovate-rotundate, sometimes ovate-lanceolate, 

 base rounded or subcordate, sometimes subcuneate, apex 

 cuspidate-acuminate or more or less shortly acuminate; 

 upper half usually dentate-serrate; membranous or sub- 

 chartaceous; both sides pubescent, especially beneath and 

 on the nerves; sometimes glabrate except on the nerves; 

 somewhat glandular beneath; all hairs simple; pairs of 

 nerves 3 — 6; often the lowest 2 pairs starting from the 

 base; 6V2 — 16 cM. long, 4V3 — 12 cM. broad, petioles 

 1 — 6 cM.; corymbs many-flowered; 572^-13 cM. long, 

 4—13 cM. in diam.; peduncles lYg — 3 cM., bracts small, 

 linear; flowers pedicelled; pedicels 0.1—0.25 cM.; calyx 

 rather variable; usually 2-lipped, upper lip with 3, lower 

 with 2, rather large, rounded lobes; sometimes lobes 

 subacute, rarely upper lip subentire or entire; densely 

 pubescent and glandular, 0.15 — 0.3 cM. long; corolla 

 2-lipped, upper half of the tube and lobes somewhat 

 pubescent without, glandular; tube 0.25—0.4 cM. long, 

 0.25—0.35 cM. wide; upper lip entire, lower 3-lobed, 

 midlobe larger; the lips 0.2—0.25 cM. long; throat densely, 

 villous with the upper half of the tube within; stamens 

 long exsert, inserted in the throat, with the flower 0.6—0.8 

 ,cM. longj subdidynamous ; style as long exsert as the 

 stamens; stigma shortly bifid; ovary glabrous, or with 



