Premna resinosa - Resinous Premna

Resinous Premna is an undershrub about 3-8 ft tall. Flowers are borne at branch-ends in panicles composed of 2-4 opposite cymes. Flowers are funnel-shaped, 4 lobed, 2-lipped, petals obovate, light cream white, flower tube narrow. Stamens 4, didynamous, protruding, filaments thread-like, slightly protruding, anthers spherical, black, 2-celled. Sepal-cup cup-shaped, 5 toothed, teeth subequal, velvet-hairy, about 1.5 x 2 mm across. Flower-cluster-stalk is slender, bluntly four-edged, about 0.5-1 cm long, bracts subulate, linear about 0.3-mm long. Flowers are bisexual, few, flower-stalks about 1-3 mm long. Stem is woody, bark gray or grayish white, branchlets slender, bluntly four-edged or round, young parts velvet-hairy, nearly hairless when mature, internodes about 1.5-4 cm long. Leaves are simple, in prependicular opposite pairs, ovate-oblong, elliptic-oblong 1.5-3 x 0.8-1.8 cm across, base blunt to pointed, margin entire, tip pointed or blunt, somewhat leathery or papery, dark green hairless, slightly paler hairless and puntate beneath. Leaf-stalk is slender, velvet-hairy, channeled, about 0.3-0.6 cm long. Fruit is a drupe, obovoid, hairless, about 3 x 2 mm across, hairless, fruiting sepal-cup saucer shaped, reddish orange when ripe. Resinous Premna is native to NE. & E. Tropical Africa, Arabian Peninsula, India. In India it is found in Gujarat.