622 cVn. veHbenace^. [Premna. 
(15) P. Kunstleri Kins, and Gamble, Kern Bulletin, 1908, p. 109 ; 
Gamble, Journ. /Is. Soc. Beng. l.c. 821. 
Large stout shrub or small tree, black bark. Leaves stiffly 
coriaceous elliptic-oblong or obovate blunt or shortly acuminate, 
glabrous; nerves stout elevate, 5 to 7 pairs; 4 to 7 in. long, 2*5 to 
4 in. wide; petioles -75 to 1*25 in. long. Corymbs spreading, 
sub-glabrous ; branchlets and calyx pubescent ; peduncle 3 to 4 
in. long, whole corymb 7 in. wide. Flowers greenish white, shortly 
pedicelled. Calyx cup-shaped, truncate or obscurely 2-lipped. 
Corolla tubular, -125 in. long, 2-lipped, lower lip with midlobe 
longest. Drupe white, obovoid ribbed, *25 in. long. Hab. Perak, 
Sungei Rayah and Goping (Kunstler). Distrib. Sumatra. 
(16) P. pyramidata Wall. Cat. 1779; Gamble, l.c. 822. 
A fairly big tree up to 50 ft. tall or more. Leaves chartaceous 
ovate acuminate cordate, round, or attenuate at base, glabrous 
above, glaucescent beneath, stellate-tomentose on midrib; nerves 
7 to 10 pairs and transverse nervules prominent beneath; 6 to 
14 in. long, 3 to 8 in. wide; petioles 1 to 4 in. long. Cymes in 
a pyramidal panicle stellate-pubescent, 12 in. long, 6 in, wide. 
Flowers crowded on branch-tips pedicelled greenish white. Calyx 
campanulate stellate-pubescent, teeth 5, sub-equal. Corolla 
2-lipped, -15 to 2 in. long, a ring of hairs in the throat, greenish 
white. Drupe globose or ovoid, -2 to -25 in. through. Hab. 
Forests, Pahang, Kwala Luit, Pahang River; Kerambit, Kwala 
Lipis (Foxworthy). Selangor, Dusun Tua. Negri Sembilan, 
Johol. Perak, Temengoh; Kwala Dipang. Lankawi (Curtis). 
Distrib. Burma, Java, Timor. Native name : Piat. 
7 . GMELINA, Linn. 
Small bushy tree or climbers armed with axillary spines (branch- 
lets). Leaves opposite, entire or lobed. Flowers large, yellow 
in cymes, on a terminal panicle. Bracts small or rarely large and 
dull red. Calyx campanulate, 4- to 5-toothed. Corolla obliquely 
funnel-shaped, tube slender at base, abruptly dilate above; limb 
oblique, 4- to 5-lobed. Stamens 4, included. Ovary 4-celled, 
cells i-ovuled; style slender; stigma bifid. Drupe succulent 
yellow; endocarp bony, 2- to 4-celled, usually with a conical 
hollow in the middle open on one side. Species about 11. 
Trees, small. 
Leaves sub-glabrous . . . . . . (1) G. asiatica 
Leaves very woolly beneath . . . . . (2) G. villosa 
Scandent shrub. 
Flowers in strobiles with large red bracts . . (3) G. Hystrix 
(1) G. asiatica Linn. Sp. PI. 626 ; Gamble, l.c. 823. 
A small bushy spiny tree or shrub. Leaves membranous 
oblanceolate or obovate to rhomboid and 3-lobed, deep green above, 
glaucous beneath and minutely pubescent, -75 to 1-5 in. long, 
