Clerodendron. | CI. VERBENACE# (BAKER). 297 
shorter than the tube. _Corolla-tube twice as long as the calyx ; lobes 
subequal, } in. long. Stamens } in. long. 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Pungo Andongo, Welwitsch, 5682! 
8. C. glabrum, Z. Meyer ; Schauer in DC. Prod. xi. 661. An erect 
shrub with slender woody finely pubescent branchlets. Leaves 2-3- 
nate, shortly-petioled, oblong, acute, entire, subcoriaceous, glabrous, 
2-4 in. long. Cymes dense, many-flowered ; branchlets pubescent ; 
pedicels very short. Calyx pubescent, } in. long; tube campanulate ; 
lobes ovate, shorter than the tube. Corolla-tube i-1 in. long; lobes 
obovate, 3h in. long. Stamens twice as long as the corolla-lobes. 
Drupe small, 1—2-celled. 
Nile Land. British East Africa: Mombasa, on dry coral, Scott-Elliot, 6103! 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Welwitsch, 5625! 5651! 5656! 5657! 5710! 
5721! 5752! 5753! Monteiro! 
Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa: French Island, Kirk, 20! and without 
precise locality, Kirk ! Portuguese East Africa: Mozambique, Forbes! Mouth of the 
West Luabo River, Kirk ! Lower Zambesi; Tete, Kirk ! 
Also in South Africa. 
9. C. volubile, Beauv. Fl. Owar. i. 52, t. 32. A climbing shrub, 
with slender woody branchlets. Leaves opposite, petioled, oblong, 
acute, entire, glabrous. Cymes many-flowered, forming ample terminal 
panicles ; branchlets finely pubescent ; pedicels often longer than the 
calyx. Calyx campanulate, 1 in. long ; tube campanulate ; lobes small, 
ovate. Corolla-tube 4-1 in. long; lobes white, obovate, subequal, 
sin. long. Stamens in. long. Drupe globose, 1—2-lobed, } in. diam. 
—Schauer in DC. Prod. xi. 661; Benth. in Hook. Niger Fl. 486; 
Cummins in Kew Bulletin 1898, 77; Henriques in Bolet. Soe. Brot. 
Xv1. 69. multiflorum, G. Don ; Schauer in DC. Prod. xi. 673. 
Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone: near Kambia, on the River Scarcies, Scott~ 
Elliot, 4424! Samu country, Scott-Elliot, 4237! near Sasseni, Scott-Hiliot, 4417! 
and without precise locality, Don! Ashanti, Cummins, 125! Lugos: Eppab, Barter, 
3275! Abeokuta, Irving, 87! Jasohe, Irving, 90! and without precise locality, 
Moloney / Millen, 82! Cameroons: Yaunde, 2600 ft., Zenker and Staudt, 139! 
Fernando Po, Mann, 71. Ri Rates 
Low i arter, 2030! Gaboon: Como River, Bates, 
501! Gaboon River wfann 936! Can, ath ? Stanley Pool, Hens, B 367! Angola, 
Welwitsch, 5680! 5659! 5662! 5675! Monteiro! River Luachimo, Marques, 330. 
10. Formicarun, (Giirke in Engl. Jahrb. xviii. 179. A shrub, 
With very slender finely pubescent branchlets. Leaves 2-4-nate, 
cuneate at the base, thin, oblong, acute, entire, 2-3 in. long, glabrows 
on both sides. Cymes numerous, many-flowered, long-peduncle 
for ming a subumbellate terminal panicle ; branches finely pubescent; 
pedicels short, Calyx subglabrous, ;/; in. long ; teeth ovate, shorter 
than the campanulate tube. Corolla white; tube 2-3 times the lengt 
of the calyx; lobes subequal, j!, in. long. Stamens 2-3 times the 
