592 OXI. VERBENACEX. (C. B. Clarke.) ^ [Clerodendron. 
Clerodendron. The Moulmein material has smaller, less toothed, leaves, and has more 
pubescence and glands than the Chela plants. 
*** Panicles terminal, elongate, conspicuously bracteate ; calyx sub- 
truncate. 
ll. C. serratum, Spreng. Syst. ii. 758; shrubby, leaves subsessile 
oblong or elliptic acuminate serrate, pedicels densely pubescent. Don Prodr. 
103; Wall. Cat. 1809; Ham. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xvii. 187; Schauer 1n 
DC. Prodr. xi. 664; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 200; Wight Ic. t. 1472; 
Brand. For. Fl. 364; Kurz For. Fl. ii. 267. C. ternifolium, Don Prodr. 
103. C. macrophyllum, Bot. Mag. t. 2536; Reich. Fl. Exot. t. 209 ; Schauer 
l. c. 674. C. ornatum, Wall, Cat. 1811; Schauer l. c. 675. C. herbaceum, 
Wall. Cat. 1815; Schauer l. e. 675. C. cuneatum, Turcz. in Bull. Soc. Inp. 
Nat. Mosc. 1863, ii. 221. Volkameria serrata, Linn. Mant. 90; Roxb. Hi. 
Ind, iti. 62. V. herbacea, Roxb. Hort. Beng. 46. 
From the H1MALAYA, east of the Sutlej, to CEYLON and TENASSERIM, alt. 0-4000 
ft., frequent ; very common in Bengal. . :angl 
Stems usually 2-8 ft., simple, hardly woody, being burnt annually in the jungle 
fires; when more than a year old becoming branched, more or less hairy or glabrate. 
Leaves usually some of them ternate, commonly 6 by 2 in., narrowly obovate-oblong 
or subelliptic, base cuneate, mature glabrate puberulous pubescent or (in some 
Indian examples) closely villous on the lamina beneath; petiole 0— in. Pamo s 
by 1 in., sublinear, or 10 by 5 in. subpyramidal, pubescent often villous, brana 
and pedicels patently shortly hairy; bracts j-1j in., from obovate to lanceolate, 
pubescent, subpersistent, often coloured; pedicels 0—4 in. Calyx $ in., cup-shaped, 
pubescent or puberulous, limb very shortly 5-lobed, slightly enlarged in fruit. Coro d 
nearly glabrous without, hairy at the base of tbe stamens, from purplish-blue m 
white to nearly white; tube 4-} in., narrow.cylindric ; mouth oblique, 2-lipped ; 
lobes j-3 in., oblong or elliptic. Drupe } by 3-4 in., succulent, purple-black, 4-]-pyrene 
—In the form C. herbaceum, Wall, the panicle is cylindric dense subspicate ; 10 
ornatum, Wall. (only seen from Pegu), the panicle is diffuse, slender, junusu* y 
glabrous. . 
Var. Wallichii ; leaves large often shortly petioled, panicle large pyramidal PG 
pubescent, bracteoles prominent lanceolate, calyx truncate or very nearly $0. kin 
farinosum, Wall. Cat. 1810 (not Volkameria farinosa, Roxb.). C. divaricatum, Jac. d 
Mal. Misc. i. 2, and in Hook. Bot. Misc. ii. 89; Schauer l. c. 674. C. javanicum, 
Walp. Rep. iv. 113.—Eastern India ; from Sikkim and Assam to Malacca, common- 
Distrib. Sumatra, Java, Cambodia.—The upper leaves (at least) in some examples of 
this are quite entire. 
,12. C. venosum, Wall. Cat. 1807 ; arboreous, leaves opposite petioled 
elliptic acuminate glabrescent, panicle often farinose-tomentose. Volkameri 
farinosa, Roxb. Hort. Beng. 46, and FZ. Ind. iii. 64, not C. farinosum, Watt. 
Tad amer Ps Griff. Itin. Notes, 70, n. 1082, Clerodendron n. 30, Herb. 
x ya Mrs. alt. 4000 ft.; Mamloo, Griffith (Kew Distrib. n. 6052) ; Cherra, 
Jed L., AC 
A tree (Roxburgh), 40 ft., with well-marked trunk (Clarke). Leaves (none d. y. 
nate) 7 by 3 in. base attenuate; petiole 4-1 in. (or uppermost leaves sess a, 
Panicle 8 by 5 in, brachiate, branches divaricate; rachis acutely quadrangu e| 
bracts 1-2 in., ovate, acuminate, leaf-like ; bracteoles 4 in., linear-oblong, persisten , 
farinose-tomentose without spreading hairs ; pedicels secund. Calyx § in., truncato, 
glabrescent. Corolla nearly as of C. serrata, but with a greenish-white tinge. Drupé 
nearly as of C. serrata. 
**** Panicles peduncled, of 1 or more heads, axillary or sometimes 
pseudo-terminal. 
