Clerodendron. | CI. VERBENACEH (BAKER). 301 
panicle; pedicels pubescent, longer than the calyx. Calyx } in. long ; 
lobes ovate or ovate-lanceolate, rather shorter than the tube. Corolla 
bright red, passing into bright yellow : tube 3-1 in. long; lobes obovate, 
subequal, 4-3 in. long. Stamens 1 in. long.—Benth. in Hook. Niger 
Fl]. 486; Durand & De Wild. in Bull. Soc. Bot. Belg. xxxvii. 125. 
C. aurantium, G. Don; Schauer in DC. Prod. xi. 673. 
Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone, Barter! Oldfield ! Don! Lagos: Yero, Millen, 
9! Abeokuta, Rowland! and without precise locality, Moloney, 14! Lower Niger ; 
Onitsa, Barter! Old Calabar, Thomson,7! Cameroons: Bipinde, Zenker, 1048! 
Yaunde, Zenker & Staudt, 115! River Cameroon, Mann, 732! 
Lower Guinea. (taboon: River Gaboon, Mann! Munda, at Sibange Farm, 
Soyaux, 12! Congo, Smith! Burton! Bingila and Ki-binga, Dupuis. Loango, 
Soyaux, 75! Angola, Welwitsch, 5646! 5664! 5740! Malange, Marques, 5! 
C. speciosum (Rev, Hort. 1873, 471, with coloured figure), and Garden, xi. (1877) 
404, pl. 74, said to be a hybrid, recedes very little from typical C. splendens, but the 
plant figured as C. speciosum hybridum in Ill. Hort. 1869, t. 593, comes midway 
between C. splendens and C. Thomsone. 
23. C. Buchholzii, Giirke in Engl. Jahrb. xviii. 176. A climbing 
shrub, glabrous in all its parts. Leaves distinctly petioled, oblong, 
rounded at the base, 4—7 in. long by half as broad, acuminate, entire, 
green and glabrous on both sides. Cymes forming axillary panicles ; 
pedicels long; bracts minute, filiform. Calyx glabrous, } in. long ; 
tube between cylindrical and funnel-shaped; teeth small, deltoid. 
Corolla white, glabrous; tube 4—3 in. long; lobes obovate, } in. long. 
Stamens twice as long as the lobes. 
Upper Guinea. Cameroons: Victoria, Buchholz, between Barombi and Kumba, 
Preuss, 404! and on the north bank of Elephant Lake, Preuss, 497! Gaboon : Como 
River, Bates, 473! 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Pungo Andongo, Mechow, 86. 
This may be identical with C. Manetti, Vis. Ill. Piante Orto Padova, iii. (1856) 
20, t. 3, a garden plant of uncertain origin. 
24. C. harnierianum, Schweinf. Beitr. Fl. Aethiop. 119. Branchlets 
herbaceous, tetragonous. Leaves 2—3-nate, petioled, membranous, oblong 
or oblong-lanceolate, narrowed to the base and acute apex, about 2 in. long 
by 1 in. broad, pubescent on both surfaces. Cymes lax, forming a ter- 
minal panicle ; pedicels slender, pubescent. Calyx glabrate, } in. long ; 
tube campanulate ; lobes ovate-lanceolate, very acute, as long as the 
tube. Corolla pubescent, purple, 2-3 times as long as the calyx. 
Nile Land. Sennar: near Roseres, Cienkowsky. White Nile, Harnier. 
25, C. congense, Hngl. in Engl. Jahrb. viii. 65. Branchlets angular. 
Leaves shortly petioled, glabrous above, hairy on the ribs and glandular 
beneath, the lower oblong, 4 in. long, 3 in. broad, with a rounded base, 
the upper cordate-ovate. Inflorescence corymbose; branchlets hairy ; 
bracts deciduous, linear or linear-lanceolate. Calyx } in. long ; teeth 
deltoid, as long as the campanulate tube. Corolla-tube above } in. 
