578 CXI. VERBBNAOB^. (C. B. Clarke.) [Premna. 



Boxburgh grounds liis species on the cordate base of the leaves : this form appears 

 confined to the Coromandel Hills. 



Vae. cuneata; leaf-base rhomboid or cuneate, calyx strigose. P. viburuoides, 

 Kurz For. M. ii. 261.— Pegu j Kurz. Burma ; Onffith (Kew Distrib. n. 6035).— A 

 small tree of the dusky sombre colour of P. latifolia Soxb. type, the leaves drying 

 blue-black above, ashy beneath, often very pubescent vfhen young. 



Vab. moUissima ; leaves small base obtuse or rhomboid, corymbs IJ in. diam. 

 P. moUissima, Soth Nov. Sp. 287; Sehatier in DC. Prodr. xi. 638. P. viburnoides, 

 Wall. Cat. 2(i46, letter a onlt/ ; Schauer I. u. &ih, chiefly. — Madras; Wight. — This 

 looks like a hurnt-up form of Var. cuneata, than which it is not more hairy, but 

 has smaller calyx and corolla. 



Vae. mucronata; leaves cuneate at both ends mature minutely pubescent on 

 the midrib beneath, corymbs somewhat broad rusty-pubescent, calyx subpatently 

 pubescent. P. mucronata, Soxb. Ft. Ind. iii. 635 ; Wall. Cat. 1766 ; Schauer in 

 DC. Prodr. xi. 685 ; Brand. For. Fl. 366. — N. India from Kumaon to Bhotan and 

 the Ehasia Mts., ascending to 5000 ft., and spreading into Bengal Plain, common, 

 Wallich, S.f.^T., &e.— This could not be distinguished from P. latifolia by Wallioh 

 or Brandis, and seems to be a state of P. latifolia grown in a moister soil. The 

 leaves are often 6 in. long, the drupes larger and more verrucose. 



Vae. iiihurnoides, Wall. Cat. 2646, letter 4 only ; leaves ovate base rhomboid 

 glabrate drying green surfaces concolorous. Schauer in DC. Prodr. xi. 635, in smill 

 part. P. latifolia, Wight Ic. t. 869. — S. Deecan Peninsula ; Cochin and Gingee Hills, 

 Wight ; near Madras, &. Thomson. — Leaves broad, not cordate, nearly glabrous even 

 when young. — This may be a distinct species ; the green colour easily separates it from 

 all the preceding forms of P. latifolia. 



23. P. flavescens, Ham. ; Wall. Cat. 2649 ; leaves ovate or otovate 

 acuminate entire mature setalose above villous beneath, corymbs lairge 

 densely pubescent, calyx closely pubescent shortly 5-tooth.ed. 



E. Bensal; Goalpara, Bams'HoK ; Dacca, Clarice. 



A shrub or a small tree ; shoots villous or woolly. Leaves 6 by 2^ in., base obtuse 

 or suboordate, upper surface with minute scattered hairs erect from the reticulating 

 nerves ; nerves 7 pair ; petiole 1 in. Corymbs 4-7 in. diam., usually rusty-villous ; 

 bracts ^in., linear. Calyx .^in. Corolla J-^ in., 2-lipped, very hairy below within. 

 Drupe \ in. 



Vae. glabrior; leaves setulose above sparingly pubescent or glabrate beneath 

 greeii. Premna a. 24, Serb. Ind. Or. H.f. * T.— Subtropical Sikkim, alt. 3000 ft., 

 Clarke. Silhet ; M.f. ^ T. 



Vae. rubens; leaves setulose above glabrate beneath drying usually reddish. 

 Premna n. 32, Merb. Ind. Or. H.f S( T.— Malacca; Griffith (Kew Distrib. n. 6020. 

 (Java.) — Possibly a distinct species \ but, except as to the colour of the leaves, no 

 diagnostic mark has been found to separate it from Var. glabrior. 



24. P. micrantha, Schauer in DC. Frodr. xi. 635; leaves ovate 

 acuminate entire mature setulose above somewhat pubescent beneath, 

 corymbs compound minutely pubescent, calyx very small minutely 5-toothed. 

 P. scandens, Wall. Cat. 1774, in small part. 



Sheet; Wallich. , 



Leaves 3J by 1% in., base rounded. Calyx 5'^j in. when the flower is expanded.— 

 This very closely resembles P. flavescens. Ham., and may be a form of it ; it differs in 

 the very small calyx. The bristliness of the upper surface of the leaves is peculiar to 

 P. flavescens and P. micrantha among Premnas. 



25. P. Wig-htiana, Schauer in BC. Prodr. xi. 635; leaves ovate 

 shortly acuminate subentire mature sparsely pubescent above, panicles 

 narrow subthyrsoid in fruit minutely thinly scabrid-pubescent, calyx-teeth 

 5 Bubequal ovate or triangular. P. thyrsiflora, Seyne; Wall. Cat. 1770. 



