Premna esculenta

Premna esculenta Roxb., Fl. Ind. ed. 1832 3: 81 1832. (syn: Gumira esculenta (Roxb.) Kuntze);

Assam to Thailand as per WCSP;

Assam; Bangladesh; Myanmar; Thailand as per Catalogue of Life;

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Shrub about 6-8 ft tall. Short stemmed glabrous, branches and branchlets slender, obtusely quadrangular, furrowed, glabrous when mature, nodes annulate. Leaves simple, opposite, elliptic-lanceolate, obovate-elliptic, 6-16 x 3-8 cm across, base acute or cuneate, margins serrate dentate, apex acuminate, chartaceous, dark green, glabrous above, slightly paler yellowish pubescent beneath when young, glabrous when mature, lateral veins 4-7 on either side of the midvein, ascending, arcuate, veins impressed above and prominent beneath, petiole slender, stout, quadrangular, glabrous, canaliculated about 0.4-0.7 cm long, exstipulate. Inflorescence axillary, terminal corymbs, composed of 4-8 opposite cymes, pubescent, about 4 x 6 cm across, peduncles quadrangular, 1-2 cm long, bracts subulate or linear, about 3-4 mm long. Flowers bisexual, many, greenish yellow, cream white, pedicels about 3 mm long, calyx cupular, 5 toothed, teeth obtuse, apex acute, pubescent outside, about 3 x 3 mm across, corolla infundibular, 4 lobed, 2 lipped, white, lobes ovate to oblong, apex obtuse, 3 x 2 mm across, corolla tube narrow, densely pubescent at the throat, glabrous outside, about 3-4 mm long, stamens 4, didynamous, slightly exserted, filaments glabrous, filiform, about 1.5-2.5 mm long, anthers globose, 2 loculed, about 0.5 mm long, ovary obovoid or subglobose, about 1 x 1.5 mm across, style slender, filiform, about 2.5 mm long, stigma bi-lobed. Fruit drupaceous, obovoid, about 3 mm in diameter, smooth, purple, fruiting calyx cupular, 5 lobed, membranous.

It is Premna esculenta Roxb.

It’s Premna esculenta. And the Mizo name is Lei-dum

Thanks, … To me also appear close to images of Premna esculenta at

Does not matches with images at Premna serratifolia L.

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Looks like matching with P. integrifolia.

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Calyx look much different from images given at my stated link: Premna serratifolia L.

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Thank you for your response, This tree was medium size tree and usually found in dry places where the Chromolaena odorata and under teak forest.
i am sorry i could not take the leaves images
i will send here next time if i happen to visit this places.

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Are you positive the leaves in pic 3 belong to the same plant as 1 and 2… which shows opposite leaves all down the branch.