Clerodendron. ] CI. VERBENACEE (BAKER). 313 
67. C.aurantiacum, Baker. An erect perennial herb, with finely 
pubescent stems. Leaves opposite, small, sessile, lanceolate, pubescent 
on both sides, inciso-crenate at the middle, cuneate and entire at the 
base. Cymes many-flowered, crowded, sessile, forming a long terminal 
panicle. Calyx pubescent, } in. long; tube campanulate ; lobes orbi- 
cular, obtuse, about as long as the tube. Corolla light orange; tube 
very short. 
Mozamb. Dist. British Central Africa : Nyasaland ; Manganja Hills, Wedler ! 
68. C. macrostachyum, Baker in Kew Bulletin, 1898, 159. An 
undershrub, with stout erect woody glabrous stems. Leaves sessile, 
oblanceolate-oblong, the lower 3-4 in. long, obtuse, crenate in the upper 
half, narrowed gradually from the middle to the base, dark green, slightly 
pubescent, especially beneath. Cymes dense, many-flowered, sessile or 
the lower shortly peduncled, forming a lax panicle 6-8 in. long; bracts 
linear or lanceolate, foliaceous. Calyx pubescent ; tube campanulate, 
4 in. long ; lobes ovate or oblong, unequal, finally } in. long. Corolla 
and stamens not seen. 
Mozamb. Dist. British Central Africa: Nyasaland; Mount Zomba, 2500- 
3500 tt., Whyte ! 
69. CG. spinescens, Giirke in Engl. Jahrb. xviii. 180. A shrub 
with densely pubescent woody branchlets, often armed with small hooked 
or large straight spines at the nodes. Leaves opposite, suborbicular, 
shortly petioled, entire, pubescent, at most 1 in, long. Cymes axillary, 
usually reduced to a single flower; peduncle very pubescent. Calyx 
densely hairy, } in. long ; tube campanulate ; teeth ovate, acute, rather 
Shorter than the tube. Corolla tube twice as long as the calyx ; upper 
Segments oblong, 4 in. long; lower obovate-cuneate, } in. long. 
Stamens 1 in. long.—Cyclonema spinescens, Oliv. in Journ. Linn, Soc. 
Xv. 96 and in Hook. Ic. Pl. t. 1221. Kalaharia spinipes, Baill. Hist. 
Plant. xi. 111. XK. spinescens, Giirke in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 340; 
enriques in Bolet. Soc. Brot. xvi. 69. 
Lower Guinea. Lower Congo: Stanley Pool, Hens, 57! Angola, Huilla to 
Humpata, Johnston ! between the rivers Quihumbo and Lukembe, Marques, 342. 
South Central. Congo Free State : Upper Congo; Katanga, Cornet, Lualaba 
River, Descamps ; Lunda; at Kimbundu, on the River Lovo, Pogge, 547. 
Mozamb. Dist, German East Africa: Unyvamwezi ; Lake Shai, on the Upper 
Wala River, Stuhlmann, 438 ; Gondo, Bohm & Reichardt, 161; Lake Tanganyika, 
Cameron! British Central Africa ; Urungu; Fwambo, Carson, 32) Kambore 
5000 tt., Mutt / Nyasaland ; Maravi country, in Upper Shire, Kirk / Ngamilan ; 
between Kobis and North Shaw Valley, Baines ! Damaraland and Namaqualand, 
Fleck, 230, Nels, 30, and Schinz, 456 (ex Giirke). 
Imperfectly known species. 
70. C. triflorum, Vis.; Schawer in DC. Prod. xi. 672. ; 
Subtetragonous, canescent. Leaves long-petioled, broadly ovate, str ongly 
toothed at the middle, with the ribs of the underside raised. Pe uncles 
axillary. Cymes drooping, about 3-flowered ; lateral pedicels bracteolate. 
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