594 oxi. VERBENACEE. (C. B. Clarke.) — [Clerodendron. 
Leaves 6-15 in. diam., teeth usually scarcely } in. deep; petiole 2-4 in. Panicle 
often 18 by 12 in., open, red; bracts small. Corolla nearly glabrous, scarlet ; tube 
$-1in., filiform; lobes} in. Drupe}-} in. diam., blue-black ; fruiting calyx enlarged, 
patent 13 in. diam. 
Var. urticifolia; teeth of the leaves 1— in. deep patent all round the leaves. y. 
urticifolia, Wall. Cat. 1801; Schauer l.e.  Volkameria urticifolia, Roxb. Fi. Ind. iii. 
61.—Assam, E. Bengal, Pegu ; Wallich, &e. Distrib. Ava. 
XP Panicles terminal, capitate or corymbose; leaves beneath not or 
very obscurely glandular. 
17. C. lasiocephalum, Clarke; leaves ovate acuminate dentate 
pubescent, panicle subcapitate, calyx-segments $ in. linear-subulate. 
MISHMEE; Griffith (Kew Distrib. n. 6055). 
Branches pubescent upwards. Leaves opposite, 10 by } in., base cuneate or 
rounded, membranous, sparsely pubescent on both surfaces; petiole 2 in. Panicle 
sessile, 2-3 in. diam., dense, depressed-globose, pubescent ; bracts linear. Calyx 
divided, nearly to the base; segments flaccid caudate, pubescent. Corolla not seen. 
Drupe | in. diam., red. 
18. C. Colebrookianum, Walp. Rep. iv. 114; leaves shallowly cor- 
date ovate acute entire mature subglabrate, panicle large spreading, flowers 
clustered, calyx 1-4 in. Schauer in DC. Prodr. xi. 672; Gamble Indian 
Timbers, 999. C. glandulosum, Wall. Cat. 1806; Lindl. in Bot. Reg. 1844, 
19, in note; Schauer l. c. 
SIKKIM, Assam, and Kmasra Mrs., alt. 1-4000 ft., frequent; H. f. & T., &c. 
MOULMEIN ; Parish, PROME Hints; Col. Benson. SINGAPORE; Lobb. 
A shrub, 4-8 ft. Leaves often 9 in. diam., young puberulous, beneath eglandular 
or with a few scattered large glands especially near the apex of the petiole ; petiole 
2-8 in. JPanicles 1-2 ft. diam., straggling, pubescent; flowers very numerous !n 
clusters; bracts lanceolate, caducous at flower-time. Calyx pubescent, often bearing 
a few large glands, divided hardly half-way down; teeth triangular or lanceolate. 
Corolla nearly glabrous, from rose-purple to white; tube 1 in.; lobes 4 in., elliptic. 
Drupe } in. diam., blue, pyrenes usually 4; calyx in fruit 4-4 in. diam.— C. glandu- 
losum, Wall.,is a specimen from the Calc. Bot. Garden, with the leaves rather more 
pubescent, and the bracts persistent. 
; Van. denticulata ; leaves irregularly sinuate denticulate. — Jaintea Hills; Jowye, 
Clarke. 
19. C. infortunatum, Gaertn. Fruct. i. 271, t. 57, fig. 1; leaves ovate 
acuminate entire or serrulate mature hairy, panicle open villous, corolla-tube 
exceeding the eglandular calyx-lobes 4 in. Lamk. Ill. t. 544; Wall. Cat. 
1796; Schauer in DC. Prodr. xi. 667; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 200; Wight 
Ic. t. 1471; Bedd. For. Man. 173, and Anal. Pl. xxii. fig. 1; Brand. |For. Fl. 
363; Kurz For. Fl. ii. 267. C. viscosum, Vent. Jard. Malm. t. 25; Bot. 
Mag. t. 1805; Bot. Reg. t. 629. C. cordatum, Don Prodr. 103; Schauer 
l.c. 674. C. castanewfolium, Klotzsch in Reis. Pr. Wald. Bot. 102, t. 65. 
C. calycinum, Turez. in Bull. Soc. Imp. Nat. Mose. 1863, ii. 222. Volka- 
meria infortunata, Roxb, Fl. Ind. ii. 59.—Clerodendron, Linn. Fl. Zeyl. 
232; Burm. Thes. Zeyl. 66; Rumph. Herb. Amb. iv. t. 49; Rheede Hort. 
Mal. ii. t. 25. 
Throughout INDIA, from Gurwhal and Assam to CEYLON and Singapore, in the 
warm region ; very common.—DIsTRIB. Malaya. 
A sbrub, 4 ft., often gregarious, yellow- or white-villous upwards, sometimes a small 
tree according to a note in Herb. Wallich. Leaves 4-8 in., base cordate or obtuse, 
varying from round-ovate to broad-oblong, in the Deccan examples usually entire, m 
