Premna. 155 



not cordate; margins entire; apex abruptly acuminate, 

 acumen acute or obtuse. 1 cM. long; upper side shining, 

 glabrous or somewhat stellate-hairy on the nerves, lower 

 one sparsely stellate-hairy, densier on the nerves; pairs 

 of nerves 4—6; 9—20 cM. long; 7—12 cM. broad; peti- 

 oles 272^ — 6 cM.; corymbs reaching 11 cM. in diam., lower- 

 branchlets 4—6 cM. long; many-flowered; bracts small; 

 bracteoles minute, linear, 0.1—0.2 cM.; pedicels 0.1^0.2 

 cM.; calyx 0.3 cM. long, stellate-grey-tomentose without, 

 obscurely 2-lipped, subequally 5-toothed; teeth 0.05—0.08 

 cM. ; corolla white, 0.5 cM. long, the upper part stellate- 

 hairy without, eglandular; 2-lipped, upper lip entire, roun- 

 ded, 0.2—0.25 cM. long, lower 3-lobed, the midlobe larger, 

 0.18 cM. long, elliptical-ovate; stamens glabrous; ovary 

 hairy; drape 0.4 cM. long, stellate-hairy when young, 

 glabrate afterwards. 



Distribution: Samar (Philippines). 



This species is characterized by the stellate tomentum, and 

 has an affinity with P. tomentosa, from which it differs by its 

 smaller leaves which are abruptly acuminate and have a smaller 

 number of nerve-pairs; also related to P. pgramidata. 



51. P. pyramidata Wall., cat. no. 1779 (1827); Schauer, 

 DC. Prodr. XI. 633; HooA:. f., Fl. Br. Ind. IV, 576; 

 King and Gamble, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. LXXIV, 4, 822; 

 Miquel, Fl. Ind. bat. II, 897. — A small or medium-sized 

 tree (a large tree, Wallich), 13—17 M. high; branchlets 

 obscurely quadrangular, stellately tomentose with tawny 

 tomentum, on the petioles and the corymbs; leaves char- 

 taceous large-ovate or oblong, often ovate-rotundate, 

 base rounded, subcordate or obtuse, sometimes attenuate, 

 apex shortly acuminate; margins entire; upper surface 

 glabrous except on the nerves, lower one stellate-tomen- 

 tose, glabrescent afterwards; pairs of nerves 7—10, the 

 lowest 2 pairs from near the base; 15—35 cM. long, 

 71/2—20 cM. wide; petioles, upper side channelled, 2V2 — 



