572 CXI. VERBBNACEiE. (C. B. Clarke.) [Premna. 



KhasiaMts., alt. 3-5000 ft.; Wallieh, Gri^tt (Kew Distrib. 11.6023) j S.f.^T., 

 &c. Tenassbeim (Kurz). 



A small tree, 10-30 ft. ; innovations minutely fiilvoas-villous. Leaves 3 by IJ in., 

 obscurely crenate, mature nearly glabrous, nerves 4-5 pair ; petiole i in. Spikes 

 2-5 in. ; bracts ^ in., elliptic, nerved, whitened, deciduoas, or much smaller incon- 

 spicuous. Calyx -j'j in., usually whitened upwards, glabrate, lobed half-way down 

 into 2 rounded lips, or subtruncate and very shallowly lobed. Corolla ^-J in., 

 greenish-white, mouth subequally 4-lobed, throat very hairy. Ovary nearly glabrous 

 at the tip. Drwpe ^ in., mostly 1-seeded, narrowly obovoid. 



2. P. interrupta, Wall. Gat. 1778; leaves subsessile ovate or 

 obovate very shortly acaminate, spikes simple densely shortly viUous, calyx 

 puberulous or glabrate. Schauer in DC. Prodr. xi. 633 ; Brand. For. Fl. 

 867. 



Tempeeate Himalaya, frequent, alt. 5-8000 ft., from Eumaon, Straehey ^ 

 Winterbottomj to Sikkira, J. D. S. 



A small tree, 10-30 ft. , resembling P. racemosa very closely, except in the larger 

 subsessile leaves. Leaves, those next the spikes 9 by 4| in., sometimes 6 by 3 in. ; 

 petiole J-6 i°- > broadly channelled. Spikes as of P. racemosa, but rather larger ; 

 bracts ^ in., whitened, nervose, or inconspicuous. Corolla hairy in the throat. 

 Lrwpe (the few examined) 1-seeded, rather shorter and broader than in P. racemosa. 

 — Gamble (Darjeeling List, 61, and Indian Timbers, 293) says that this and the next 

 are large climbers, and it is very probable that they are so sometimes. But Gamble's 

 plants being published with imperfect diagnoses, and some being wrongly identified, 

 the information regarding others is doubtful. 



3. P. bracteata, Wall. Cat. 1772 ; leaves short-petioled eUiptio or 

 obovate acumiaate at both ends, spikes panicled and calyx densely pnberu- 

 lons. P. racemosa, Gamble lyarjeeling List, 61 ?, not of Wall. Labiata? 

 GHff. Bin. Notes 199, n. 1138. 



Sttbteopical Sikkim, alt. 2-3000 ft. ; J. B. S., &c. Bhotan ; Griffith (Kew 

 Distrib. u. 6022). Khasia Mts., alt. 4000- ft. ; Wallieh, Griffith, B.f. i; T. 



A tree, 40 ft. ; innovations densely cinereous pubescent. Leaves 9 by 3| in., 

 subentire, mature glabrate, nerves 8 pair; petiole J in., somewhat winged, or 0. 

 Panicles 7 by 4 in. ; bracts \ in., broadly lanceolate, acute, or ; cymes mostly in 

 distant capitate whorls on the panicle branches. Calyx ^ in. ; lips entire shallow, or 

 sometimes one minutely 2-toothed, the other still more obscurely 3-toothed. Corolla 

 I in., white, as of P. interrupta but smaller, hardly hairy in the throat. Drupe 

 not seen. 



tt Cymes in compound corymbs. 



4. P. cordlfolla, Roaib. Fl. Ind. iii. 78; leaves subcordate-ovate 

 acuminate, corymb dense, pedicels very short hairy, corolla \ in. tube 

 cylindric densely hairy nearly to the base. Walp. Rep. iv. 94 ; Schauer 

 in DC. Prodr. xi. Q2Si partly, not of Wight or Beddome. 



PenanO; Roxburgh. SiNaAPOBE; Lobb. 



A shrub, 6-8 ft. Leaves 6 by 3 in., subentire, drying red, mature nearly glabrous, 

 nerves 5-6 pair; petiole 1 in., fulvous-puberulous. Corymb 3-5 in. diam., many-fld.; 

 bracts J in., lanceolate, acute ; branches thick, shortly yellow-hirsute. Calyx id in , 

 scabridly puberulous, 2-Iipped ; lips broad, rounded. Corolla-tube twice as long as the 

 calyx, densely filled with hair within in the lower part ; limb 2-lipped. Ovary 

 glabrous at the tip. Drupe \ in. diam., subglobose, usually 3-1-seeded. — Schauer's 

 diagnosis is taken from Roxburgh ; his description mainly from P. Perrottetii. P. 

 cordifolia, Wall. Cat. 2467, is not in Wallich's Herbarium ; but, as it came from 

 Gongachora, it is very unlikely to have been P. cordifolia, Boxb. 



