Clerodendron.] oxı. vERBENACEX. (C. B. Clarke.) 589 
XIV. CLERODENDRON, Linn. 
Trees or shrubs, sometimes rambling. Leaves opposite, rarely 3-4-nate, 
simple, occasionally lobed. Cymes axillary or in terminal panicles, often 
leafy below; bracts prominent or small “Calyx campanulate, truncate or 
9-toothed, or sub-5-partite, persistent often accrescent or coloured. Corolla- 
tube slender, cylindric, usually long filiform; limb 5-fid, spreading, more or 
less oblique. Stamens 4; anthers long-exserted, cells parallel. Ovary 
imperfectly 4-celled, 4-ovuled ; style filiform, shortly bifid. Drupe globose, 
succulent, more rarely nearly dry, 4-grooved, separating into 4 pyrenes of 
which 1-3 are often suppressed. Seeds oblong.—Species 70, in the warmer 
regions of both Hemispheres, chiefly in the Eastern. 
Clerodendron aculeatum, Linn. (under Volkameria), a native of America, is culti- 
vated in Indian gardens; it is allied to C. inerme, but has axillary spines. C. fragrans, 
Vent., a Chinese species, is extensively cultivated, particularly the double-flowered 
variety ; it is allied to C. bracteatum. ` C. canescens, Wall., also Chinese, and closely 
allied to the last, is occasionally cultivated. 
Subgenus 1. Euclerodendron. Corolla-tube less than 14 in. 
* Peduncles mainly axillary, or panicle lax leafy below. 
l. C. inerme, Gaertn. Fruct. i. 271, t. 57, fig. 1; leaves obovate or 
elliptic subobtuse entire glabrate, calyx à-à in. minutely toothed, in fruit 
somewhat enlarged subtruncate closely embracing the base of the obovoid 
drupe. Roxb, Fl. Ind. iii. 58; Wall. Cat. 1788, chiefly. Schauer in DC. 
Prodr. xi. 660 ; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl.200; Bedd. For. Man.174; Brand. 
For. Fl. 363; Kurz For. Fl. ii. 266. Volkameria, Linn. Fl. Zeyl. 281.— 
Rheede Hort. Mal. v. t. 49. 
INDIA and CEYLON near the sea, from Bombay to Tenasserim. . 
A straggling shrub, 3-7 ft.; shoots grey-pubescent. Leaves opposite, rarely 
ternate, 3-13 in., young somewhat grey-pubescent, base cuneate ; petiole in. 
Peduncles 3-12 in. all axillary, 3-7-fld. ; bracts Jy in., linear ; pedicels i in. Calya 
grey-puberulous or glabrate. Corolla white ; tube 3 in., glabrate ; lobes j in., oblong. 
Drupe } by } in., spongy, hardly succulent, smooth hardly sulcate, separating into 
woody pyrenes. 
2. C. neriifolium, Wall. Cat. 1789; leaves elliptic acute or linear- 
oblong entire glabrate, calyx à in. shortly toothed, in fruit enlarged sub - 
patent striate distinctly toothed or lobed. Schauer in DC. Prodr. xi. 660. 
C. inerme, Benth. FI. Hongk. 971, and FI. Austral. v. 61; Sehaxer l. Ca in 
great part; Wall. Cat. 1788, type sheet. C. inerme var. nerntolia, z 
For, FI, ii. 966. Volkameria neriifolia, Rorb. Fl. Ind. ii. 64.— Rumph. 
Herb. Amb. v. t. 46 (drupe very immature). 
MALAY PENINSULA near the sea, from Chittagong to Malacca, frequent.— 
ISTRIB. Malaya, China, Australia, Polynesia. 
Leaves mostly ternate, 3} by 1} in.; or, in the extreme type form of Roxane 
sublinear, 41 by 4 in. Cymes and drupe rather larger than in C. inerme. y 
often } in. diam. in fruit. —Otherwise as C. inerme, of which this may be a var., 
ntham and Kurz have treated it. . . 
Var. macrocarpa, Wall. ms. ; drupe 1} by į in.—Martaban ; Wallich. Rangoon ; 
M'Leliand. 
, lliptie 
3. C. disparifolium, Blume Bijd. 809; leaves oblong or e"! 
acuminate subentire glabrate, calyx } in. deeply 5-lobed nearly aoe 
auer in DC, Prodr. xi. 672; Hassk. Retzia,i. 57. Ü.acuminatum, . 
