158 Premna. 



suppl. L 230. — P. cordata Blco., Fl. Fil., ed. I, 489. 

 (1837); Merr. Bur. Gov. Lab. no. 27, 68. — P. tomen- 

 tosa Blco. l.c. ed. II, 342, (1845); ed. Ill, 269; F. Vill. 

 Nov. App. 159. — P. cardiophylla Schau. l.c. 638; 

 Miq., l.c. 900. '— A tree?; branchlets somewhat quadran- 

 gular, with petioles and corymbs densely stellate-floccose, 

 glabrescent; leaves chartaceo-coriaceous, large-ovate, or 

 subrotundate, base cordate; apex acuminate; margins entire; 

 pairs of nerves 5 — 6, the lowest 2 pairs from near the 

 base; upper surface glabrous except on the nerves, lower 

 stellate-tomentose, densier on the nerves; lOYj— 30 cM. 

 long, 8—20 cM. broad; petioles 3—8 cM. long; corymbs 

 reaching 10—17 cM. in length, 6—15 cM. in diam.; 

 peduncles 3 — 6 cM.; bracts rather long; calyx 2-lipped, 

 0.35 cM., densely stellate-hairy and white-glandular without ; 

 upper lip with 3, lower with 2 large, acute teeth, as long 

 as or longer than the tube; corolla 2-lipped, 0,6—0.7 cM. 

 long; tube glabrous without, 0.4—0.5 cM.; upper lip entire, 

 lower one undeeply 3-lobed, lobes somewhat undulate, 

 larger than the upper lip; both lips softly pubescent and 

 white-glandular without; throat with a ring of stiff, white, 

 retrorse hairs; stamens included, inserted in the throat; 

 style 0.6 cM. with shortly bifid apex; ovary pubescent 

 and glandular at apex; drupe 0.5 cM. long and in diam., 

 somewhat pubescent and glandular. 



Philippines: Elmer no. 12604, Brooks Point (Addison 

 Peak), Palawan, fr. in Febr. 1911; id. no. 10668, Todaya, 

 (Mount Apo), Mindanao, with buds in May 1909. — 

 Ramos no. 355, Antipolo, Rizal, Luzon, flow, in June 

 1910. — Com. d. 1. fl. for. d. Fil. nos. 1744, Bosoboso; 

 id. 845, Pampanga. — Miranda no. 18949, with flow, 

 and fr. in Sept. 1912, Basilan. — Cuming, nos. 778 and 

 1280. 



Distribution: Philippines! Celebes (Mern'W, Phil Journ.l.c). 



