Callicarpa.] evil, verbenace^e. 617 
Kelantan, Kwala Lebir (Gimlette). Penang (Curtis, Philipps). 
Lankawi (Curtis). Distrib. Java, Borneo, Sumatra to North 
Australia. Native names: Roping Besih; Karat Besih; Tulang 
Besih. Use : A decoction drunk for colic. 
Excluded Species 
C. Reevesii Wall. Cat. 1830; Gamble, l.c. 805, Singapore. A 
single plant in the Botanic Gardens. Native of China. 
C. pedunculata Br. Gamble, l.c. 807, Penang (Wallich, 1834, no. 2). 
Hamilton, 1834, is ^ rom P enan g and is C. cana. There is no 
evidence for C. pedunculata occurring in the peninsula. 
Tectona grandis Linn. “ Burma to Malacca,” Clarke, in Hook, 
fil. F.B.I. iv. 570; Gamble, l.c. 810. The Teak tree does not 
occur in the Malay peninsula. In early days of forestry 
many attempts, were made to introduce this tree into our 
forests, but they invariably failed. Two trees or more in 
the Botanic Gardens attained a fair height and flowered and 
fruited, but most of the introduced plants soon perished. 
6 . PREMNA, Linn. 
Shrubs often climbing, rarely trees. Leaves opposite, often 
crenate, strongly and peculiarly scented when crushed. Flowers 
very small, white or green in terminal corymbs, rarely panicles. 
Bracts usually small. Calyx campanulate or tubular, 2-lipped 
or truncate or with 2 to 5 small teeth. Corolla small, tube short 
campanulate or funnel-shaped, usually white villous inside, limb 
2-lipped, 5-lobed or sub-equally 4-lobed. Stamens 4, usually 
exsert in corolla throat; anthers ovate or round, parallel or divari¬ 
cate. Ovary 2-to 4-celled; ovules 4; style slender; stigma bifid. 
Drupe small globose or obovoid, black, rarely white pulpy. Pyrenes 
4-celled or 1- to 3-celled. Seed usually 1, oblong. Species about 
40, Old World tropics. 
Calyx distinctly 2-lipped, upper lip 3-lobed, lower 
2-lobed. 
Leaves crenate-dentate ..... 
Leaves entire ....... 
Calyx upper lip 2-Iobed. 
Inflorescence of interrupted spikes; leaves sub- 
sessile ...... 
Inflorescence a corymb; leaves petioled. 
Low sea-shore shrub, often creeping; corymbs 
4 in. wide . . . • • 
Bushy, stems white; corymbs under 2 in. wide; 
leaves lanceolate ..... 
Corymbs up to 5 in. across, lax. 
Shrub erect; nerves 6 to 8 pairs . 
Climbing shrubs; nerves 5 to 6 pairs. 
Leaves ovate or elliptic, membranous, 
chartaceous ...... 
(1) P. littoralis 
(2) P. rubens 
(3) P. Derryana 
(4) P. integrifolia 
(5) P. angusticr 
(6) P. feetida 
(7) P. divaricata 
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