oo 
Clerodendron. | Cl. VERBENACEZ (BAKER). 305 
lobes lanceolate, acuminate, twice as long as the tube. Corolla-tube 
pilose, twice as long as the calyx. Stamens very long. 
Nile Land. British East Africa: Mpororo; Kayonza Mountain, Stuhlmann, 
3061, 3096. 
Lower Guinea. Lower Congo; Manga, Dupuis. 
South Central. Lunda: Lulua River, Preuss. 
39. ©. Buchneri, Giirke in Engl. Jahrb. xviii. 172. A shrub 
with pubescent young branchlets. Leaves shortly petioled, obovate- 
lanceolate, 3-4 in. long, 1-14 in. broad, entire or slightly undulated, 
narrowed to the base, shortly cuspidate, glabrous above, pubescent with 
raised veins beneath. Inflorescence terminal, capitate; pedicels very 
short ; bracts foliaceous, oblong-lanceolate. Calyx tubular-campanulate, 
pubescent, ? in. long ; lobes long, ovate-lanceolate, acuminate. Corolla- 
tube long, glandular-pubescent; limb } in. long; lobes unequal. 
Stamens much exserted. 
Lower Guinea. Angola: at Quifocussa on the River Kuango, Mechow, 5574, 
Malange, Mechow, 429; Feira, Buchner, 572. 
Near C. capitatum, Schumach. & Thonn, 
40. C. strictum, Baker. Stems woody, simple, erect, pubescent, 
1} ft. long. Leaves opposite, close, short-petioled, ascending, oblong, 
subcoriaceous, entire or irregularly repand, 5-6 in. long, subglabrescent 
above when mature, pubescent beneath principally on the raised veins. 
Cymes dense, terminal, globose, many-flowered: pedicels very short. 
Calyx hairy, } in. long; tube very short; lobes large, ovate, acute, 
foliaceous. Corolla white; tube hairy, 2-21 in. long; lobes subequal, 
oblong, }—-} in. long. Stamens an inch long. 
Lower Guinea. Angola: province of Pungo Andongo, Welwitsch, 5685 ! 
41. C. capitatum, Schumach.d: Thonn.; Schauer in DC. Prod. xi. 673. 
An erect shrub, with densely hairy branchlets. Leaves opposite, distinctly 
petioled, oblong or obovate-oblong, acute or cuspidate, entire or slightly 
Sinuate, J-1 ft. long, when mature nearly glabrous above, pubescent 
beneath. Flowers in dense sessile terminal heads 6-9 in. diam. ; bracts 
lanceolate, foliaceous, pubescent, as long as the calyx. Calyx pubescent, 
$—} in. long; tube short, funnel-shaped ; segments ovate, acute, densely 
ciliate. Corolla white; tube slender, pubescent, 3-4 in. long; lobes 
obovate, subequal, $ in. long. Stamens curved, 2-3 times the length of 
the corolla-lobes.— Hook. in Bot. Mag. t. 4355; Benth. in Hook. Niger 
Fl. 486. (C. robustum, C. stenanthum and C mossambicense, Klotzsch in 
Peters, Reise Mossamb. Bot. 258-259. C. francavilleanum, Buchinger, 
ined. 
Upper Guinea. Senegal: Mbidjem, Thierry / Gambia, Ingram ! Sierra Leone, 
Whitfield ! Gold Coast: Aquapim Mountains, Vogel! Lagos: Papalizato, Millen, 
45! Abeokuta, Jrving, 111! at the confluence of the Niger and Benue Rivers, 
Barter! Lower Niger: Onitsa, Barter, 342! Cameroons: Cameroon Mountain, 
3000 ft., Mann, 1957! Rio del Rey, Johnston ! 
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