Premna senensis Klotzsch

Several-stemmed much-branched shrub 2–5 m. tall or a small tree, rarely scandent; bark grey with scattered pale lenticels, sometimes peeling in small flakes; stems usually dark grey-brown or purplish but sometimes pale, at first with spreading fawn pubescence, soon glabrous and ridged.. Leaves very variable, ± thin, smelly, often in whorls of 3; blades oblong or ovate, 2–8.5(–12) cm. long, 1.3–5.5(–10) cm. wide, usually distinctly acuminate (sometimes very long-acuminate) at the apex but occasionally rounded, truncate then shortly cuneate at the base or subcordate, entire or obscurely to distinctly coarsely crenate, distinctly toothed or even lacerate on some parts of the margin, sparsely to densely velvety pubescent on both sides and with very obscure gland dots, sometimes almost glabrous; petiole 0.5–3.5 cm. long.. Inflorescences mostly small on short lateral shoots, 1–6 cm. wide; peduncles slender, 0–1(–3) cm. long; pedicels 0.5–1.5 mm. long; axes densely shortly spreading pubescent or with dense longer pubescence and scattered white glands; bracts oblanceolate or ± linear, 2–4 mm. long.. Calyx cupular, ciliate but otherwise glabrous to densely white pubescent all over, glandular; tube 1.5 mm. long; lobes triangular or rounded, (0.5–)1–1.5(–3 in fruit) mm. long.. Corolla white, glabrous or sparsely hairy on outside of lobes; tube 3–3.5 mm. long; limb 2-lipped, 3-and 2-lobed, the lobes elliptic-oblong, 3 mm. long, 1.5–2 mm. wide; throat and lower part of lobes inside densely white pubescent.. Ovary glandular above; style 5 mm. long.. Fruit black or violet, globose, 3.5–6 mm. in diameter, sitting in a ribbed distinctly lobed or almost entire cup usually covered with small glands; pyrene rugose.