298 CI, VERBENACEZ (BAKER). [ Clerodendron. 
length of the corolla-lobes—Henriques in Bolet. Soc. Brot. xvl. 69. 
C. triplinerve, Rolfe in Bolet. Soc. Brot, xi. 87. 
Upper Guinea. Old Calabar, Holland! 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Golungo Alto, Welwitsch, 5622! 5661! Malange, 
Buchner, 77, Mechow, 192, Marques, 9! 50. 
South Central. Congo Free State: Monbuttu; Munza, Schweinfurth, 3483 ! 
and at the Kussumbo River, Schweinfurth, 3641! Lunda; Mussumba, Pogge, 338. 
Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa: Karagwe; Bukoba, Stuhlmann, 1026. 
I cannot from the description separate C. Lujei, De Wild & Durand in Comptes- 
rendus Soc. Bot. Belg. xxxviii. 218, collected by Luja on the Lower Congo. 
11. G. ovale, Klotzsch in Peters, Reise Mossamb. Bot. 257. A 
shrub 6-7 ft. high, with woody glabrous branchlets. Leaves 2-3-nate, 
distinctly petioled, oblong, obtuse, entire, cuneate at the base, 13-2 in. 
long, finely pubescent, copiously gland-dotted. Cymes few-flowered, 
terminal and axillary; pedicels finely pubescent. Calyx pubescent, 
1 in. long; tube campanulate; lobes suborbicular. Corolla-tube 4 in. 
long; lobes small, subequal. Stamens longer than the corolla-lobes. 
—Vatke in Linnea, xliii. 537, 
Mozambh. Dist. German East Africa: Usambara; Muoa, Holst, 3076 
Usaramo; Bagamoyo, Hildebrandt, 1298! Portuguese East Africa: Rio de Sena, 
Peters. 
12. ©. Barteri, Baker. A shrub, with finely pubescent branchlets. 
Leaves shortly petioled, oblong or obovate-oblong, 4-6 in. long, cusp!- 
date, entire, narrowed to the base, moderately firm, green and glabrous 
above, slightly pubescent on the main veins beneath. Cymes dense, 
terminal, peduncled, 2 in. diam.; bracts linear ; pedicels short. Calyx 
glabrous, 3 in. long; tube campanulate; teeth ovate, spreading, nearly 
as long as the tube. Corolla white; tube cylindrical, twice the length 
of the calyx; segments of the limb obovate, zz in. long. Stamens 
3 times the length of the corolla-limb. : 
Upper Guinea. Niger Delta: Brass, Barter, 51! 
13. ©, toxicarium, Baker. A shrub, with pubescent woody 
branchlets. Leaves petioled, oblong, entire, acute, 3-6 in. long, 
rounded at the base, nearly glabrous above when mature, finely 
pubescent beneath. Cymes many-flowered, dense, long-peduncled, 
forming an ample terminal panicle ; branches finely pubescent ; pedicels 
short. Calyx pubescent, } in. long ; teeth ovate, as long as the cam- 
panulate tube. Corolla-tube }—} in. long ; lobes obovate, 31; in. long. 
Stamens } in. long. Drupe the size of a pea. 
Mozamb. Dist. British Central Africa: Nyasaland; River Shire, Kirk! 
Shibisa (Chikwawa), Meller ! Blantyre, Buchanan, 179! and without precise locality, 
Buchanan, 1075! 
14. C, tanganyikense, Buker in Kew Bulletin, 1895, 71. An 
erect shrub, with densely pubescent branches. Leaves opposite, 
