Clerodendron.] Cl. VERBENACEZ (BAKER). 299 
shortly petioled, oblong, 3-4 in. long, 2-24 in. broad at the middle, 
cuspidate, subentire, green and nearly glabrous on the face, light green 
and densely pubescent on the back. Cymes axillary and forming a 
terminal panicle ; pedicels densely pubescent ; bracts lanceolate, minute. 
Calyx pubescent, 4 in. long ; teeth small, ovate. Corolla-tube twice as 
long as the calyx ; limb j in. in diam. Stamens twice as long as the 
corolla-lobes, 
Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa: Urundi; on low hills to the North-east 
of Lake Tanganyika, 5000-7000 ft., Scott-Elliot, 8228! 8378! British Central 
Africa: Urungu ; Fwambo, Carson, 52! 
15. C. Kirkii, Baker, A shrub 4 ft. high, with pubescent 
branchlets. Leaves mostly ternate, shortly petioled, oblong, 2-3 in. 
long, acute or cuspidate, rounded at the base, deeply and irregularly 
crenate, moderately firm, thinly pubescent above, densely pubescent 
beneath. Cymes forming a lax small terminal panicle ; pedicels short, 
pubescent, Calyx pubescent, 4 in. long; tube campanulate; teeth 
ovate, shorter than the tube. Corolla white; tube cylindrical, } in. 
long; segments of the limb obovate, } in. long. Stamens three times 
the length of the corolla-lobes. 
prozamb. Dist. British Central Africa: Nyasaland; Upper Shire Valley, 
irk f 
_16. ©. Melanocrater, Guirke in Engl. Jahrb. xviii, 180. A shrub, 
with branchlets pubescent upwards. Leaves distinctly petioled, ovate 
or ovate-oblong, acuminate, 2-3 in. long, 1-1} in. broad, rounded or 
Subcordate at the base, glabrous on both surfaces. Cymes lax, terminal, 
*~ in, long ; pedicels 4-4 in. long; bracts linear or filiform. Calyx 
Subglabrous or puberulous; tube campanulate ; teeth deltoid. Corolla- 
tube puberulous, } in. long. Stamens much longer than the lobes. 
2608. outh Central. Congo Free State : near the Itiri River, 4000 ft., Stuhlmann, 
Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa: Karagwe; Bukoba, Stwh/mann, 3322, 
3650, 3720. 
_ 17. C. silveeanum, Henriques in Bolet. Soc. Brot.x. 148. A wide- 
simbing shrub, with glabrous branchlets. Leaves ovate, cuspidate, 
a8 in, long, entire, glabrous, shining; petiole 1-2 in. long. Panicle 
Case, terminal ; branchlets pubescent ; bracts small, linear, deciduous. 
ax tg. long ; teeth triangular, rather shorter han Oe aed ate 
; a white, twice as long as the calyx ; lobes ; 
mens much exserted. | 
Lower Guinea. Island of St. Thomas, plain of Io Grande, 300 ft., Quintas, 
and plain of Contador, 4500 ft., Quintas, 
i. 178, A shrub, 
te, acute, entire, 
t on both sides, 
18. C, eriophyllum, Giirke in Engl. Jahrb. xvii 
. . yllum, Giirke in Engl. Jali 
with pubescent branchlets. Leaves shortly petioled, ova 
Corlaceous, 2-24 in, long, rounded at the base, pubescen 
