PREMNA TOMENTOSA. (Nat. order Verbenacese.) 



PREMNA. Linn. —GEN. CHAR. Calyx truncate or siuuately toothed, corol-tube short the limb of 3, 4, or rarely 5 short teeth or lobe3 

 nearly equal or slightly 2-lipped, stamens 4 shorter than the corol or rarely exserted, ovary 4-celled with 1 ovule iu each cell laterally attached at or above 

 the middle, style filiform with 2 short acute stigmatic lobes, fruit a small succulent drupe with a hard 4-celled undivided kernel, seed solitary in each cell, 

 without albumen. Trees or shrubs, leaves opposite undivided, flowers small in terminal trichotoinous panicles or i* opposite cymes or clusters forming a 

 terminal spike-like thyrsus. Senth. Ft- Aust. v. p. 58. 



xREMNA TOMENTOSA. (Roxb.) A middling sized or small tree, leaves ovate to cordate pointed entire or with a 

 waved sinuate margin very densely downy and whitish underneath, light green and pubescent above, 4-6 inches long about 2|-3 

 broad, petioles round l-l£ inch long, panicles middling sized terminal erect downy somewhat corymbiform their branches scattered 

 bracts filiform downy, flowers numerous small of a dirty greenish yellow, calyx campanulate 5-toothed permanent, corol throat woolly 

 upper lip 3 cleft, the under one emarginate, drupe size of a small pea and with the nut, &c, as in the generic character. Roxb. Fl 

 Ind. Hi. 77, 



A very common tree throughout the jungles of this Presidency, called in Teligu, Naura and Nagd ; (he wood is hard, close grained and 

 yellow, and is a good fancy wood ; it is also found in Ceylon, where it is called Boosairu. 



Analysis. 



1. A flower. 



2. The same, fully open. 



3. A corol removed and opened to show insertion of the stamens. 



4. Calyx, ovary, style and stigma. 



5. Anthers. 



6- Ovary cut vertically, showing the ovules attached to the centre of the axis. 



7. Ovary cut transversely, showing 4 cells. 



8. A fruit. 



9. The fruit cut transversely, showing a hard bony 4-celled nut inside the sarcocarp (one or 2 cells often abortive.) 



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