156 Premna. 



10 cM. long; corymbs large, reaching 30 cM. in length 

 and 15^22 cM. in diam;;. peduncles 2Va— 8 cM.; bracts 

 linear, 0.5— 1.3 cM.; pedicels very short ; flowers crowded 

 at the ends of the branches; calyx 0.2—0.35 cM. long, 

 stellately pubescent without, subequally 5-toothed, 3 teeth 

 somewhat larger, 0.06 cM. long; corolla 2-lipped, 0.3— 

 0.5 cM. long, stellate-pubescent without; tube with a ring 

 of retrorse stiff hairs at the throat; upper lip entire, lower 

 3-lobed; stamens included; filaments ptout; sfi/Ze thickened 

 with very shortly bifid stigma; ovary glabrous, depressed; 

 drupe 0.5 — 0.6 cM. in diam., glabrous. 



Distribution: India {Hook, f.), Burma, Malay Peninsula, 

 Java, Timor {K. and G.). 



Its affinity is with P. tomentosa (see there). 



52. P. tomentosa Willd., Spec. 111,314,(1797-1830); 

 Blume. Bijdr. 816; Schauer, DC, Prodr. XI, 634; Hook. f.. 

 Fl. Br. Ind., IV, 576; Koords. en Val, Bijdr. Booms. 

 Java, no. 7, 179; iid. Atl. d. Baumart. Java, II, 6, t. 283; 

 Koords., Exk. fl. v. Java, III, 135; id. Pi. Jungh. ined. 

 Gedenkb. Fr. Jungh. 1 88 ; tiasskarl, 2e Cat. 's Lands PI. tuin 

 Btzg. 134; Miquel. Fl. Ind. bat. II, 896; Roxb. Fl. ind. 

 Ill, 76; Hall, f., Med. 's Rijks Herb. Leid. no. 37, 40. - 

 A tree, reaching 16 M. in height (Koorders); branchlets 

 obscurely quadrangular, with petioles and corymbs densely 

 stellate-floccose; leaves ovate or ovate-rotundate sometimes 

 oblong, base cordate or subtruncate sometimes subcuneate, 

 usually abruptly attenuate, apex gradually, generally long 

 acuminate, chartaceous; margins entire; upper surface 

 glabrous, nerves, or midrib only, densely stellate pubescent; 

 usually very densely, sometimes sparsely, yellow-glandular; 

 lower surface more or less densely stellate tomentose, 

 glandular; pairs of nerves 6—10; 10—28 cM. long. 

 7-^14^2 cM. broad; petioles 3—10 cM. long; corymbs 

 large, 9—22 cM. long, 8 — 16 cM. in diam.; peduncles 

 27 cM. ; calyx campanulate, obscurely 2-lipped, 5-ribbed, 



