314 CI. VERBENACEE (BAKER). [ Clerodendron. 
Calyx pentagonal ; lobes lanceolate. Corolla-tube three times the length 
of the calyx; lobes elliptic. 
Nile Land. Nubia, Visiani. 
11. HOLMSKIOLDIA, Retz.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. ii. 
1156. 
Calyx spreading widely from a short urceolate base, very accrescent, 
obscurely 5-lobed. Corolla-tube ineurved, dilated upwards ; limb 
oblique, patent with 5 unequal short lobes. Stamens 4, didynamous, 
affixed low down in the corolla-tube, exserted ; anthers ovoid, with 
parallel cells. Ovary entire or obscurely 4-lobed, 4-celled ; ovules 
solitary, attached laterally. Style long, exserted, bifid at the apex. 
Drupe enclosed in the urceolate base of the persistent calyx-tube, 
truncate or lobed; mesocarp thin; endocarp of 1-4 bony pyrenes. 
Seed oblong, exalbuminous; testa membranous.—Erect shrubs with 
opposite entire or toothed leaves. Cymes axillary or terminal ; bracts 
small, deciduous. Fruit-calyx sometimes brightly coloured. 
One other species in India, and a doubtful one in Madagascar. 
Branches unarmed . . . . . . . 1. H. tettensis. 
Branches spinous. 
Leaves narrowed to the base . . . . 2, H. spinescens. 
Leaves rounded at the base . . . . . 8. H. mucronata. 
1. H. tettensis, Vatke in Linnea, xliii. 536. An erect shrub, with 
unarmed pubescent branchlets. Leaves obovate, 1-14 in. long, entire 
or furnished with 1-2 large teeth on each side, cuneate at the base, 
thinly pubescent above, densely pubescent beneath; petiole short. 
Cymes few-flowered, terminal on the branchlets; pedicels long, 
pubescent. Calyx pubescent, finally rigidly coriaceous, 1 in. diam. 
Corolla pubescent externally ; tube short ; limb sub-bilabiate. Stamens 
much exserted. Fruit densely villous, deeply 4-lobed at the apex. 
—Cyclonema tettense, Klotzsch in Peters, Reise Mossamb. Bot. 261. 
Mozamb. Dist. Portuguese East Africa: Tete, Peters ; between Lupata and 
Tete, Kirk! British Central Africa : Nyasaland; by the River Shire, Kirk / 
2, H. spinescens, Vatke in Linnea, xliii. 536. A much-branched 
erect shrub; branches armed with woody subulate spines; young 
branchlets densely pubescent. Leaves oblong-cuneate, acute, entire, 
1—1} in. long, slightly pubescent above, densely pubescent beneath ; petiole 
very short. Cymes lax, few-flowered, terminal on the branchlets. 
Calyx 4-} in. diam. in the flowering stage, finally an inch broad, 
rigidly coriaceous. Corolla } in. long, densely pubescent externally. 
Stamens reaching to the tip of the corolla-lobes. Fruit densely villous, 
deeply 4-lobed at the apex.—Cyclonema spinescens, Klotzsch in Peters, 
Reise Mossamb. Bot. 262. 
Mozamb. Dist. Portuguese East Africa: in the lower part of the Zambesi 
valley, near Tete, Peters, Kirk! 
