160 PyqmvEOPREmna. 



specimen probably belongs to P. mucconata Roxb. (not of 

 F.-Villar) only. 



56. P. papuana Wernham, Trans. Linn. Soc. IX, I, 136 

 (1916). — A glabrous shrub; leaves oblong, subcoriaceous, 

 base rotundate, apex acute, very shortly acuminate; pairs of 

 nerves 6—9; 572—7 by 2—2.8 cM.; petioles 1 cM. ; corymbs 

 rather lax, minutely rusty-hairy; 20 cM. long, 18 cM. wide; 

 flowers rather large, glabrous; calyx subglpbose, distantly den- 

 tate; corolla 0.4 — 0.5 cM., subequally 4-lobed; lobes obtuse; 

 throat somewhat villous; stamens included; ovary glabrous. 



Distribution: Dutch New-Guinea. 



57. P. populifolia Miquel, Fl. Ind. bat. suppl. I, 570 and 243, 

 (1860). — A shrub?; branchlets round, appressedly pubescent, 

 glabrescent, with interpetiolar margins of hairs; leaves opposite, 

 in the same pair often unequal in dimensions and in length of 

 the petioles; chartaceous, oblong, or ovate-oblong, base rounded 

 or truncate, sometimes oblique, apex acuminate; margins sub- 

 ircegularly serrate except near the base and the apex; upper 

 side glabrous, somewhat pubescent on the midrib; lower side 

 glabrous, somewhat barbellate in the axils of the nerves; 

 SVa- 13 by 4— 6V2 cM.; peUoles 2—5 cM. long. 



Distribution : Sumatra. 



Doubtful specimen: 



V. Heutsz, no. 813, Borneo; a shrub, 3 M. high; 6 stamens 

 (5! H. J. L.), firs, green; native name : badindi ; extract of leaves 

 is a remedy for deseases of the skin. 



XV. PYGM^OPREMNA Merrill, Phil. Journ. Sci. 

 Bot. V. 225 (1910) - Engl. u. Prantl. Nat. Pfl. fam., 

 Nachtr. IV, 266. — Small undershrubs; branchlets some- 

 what hairy; /eai^es opposite, simple; inflorescences cymose, 

 terminal, sometimes composed of axillary cymules ; flowers 

 small; calyx very small, 5-toothed, in fruit somewhat 

 enlarged, 2-lipped; corolla with short, straight tube, limb 

 2-lipped, upper lip entire, lower lip 3-lobed; throat partly 



