Tab. 5838. 

 CYCLONEMA myricoides. 



Myrica-like Cyclone/na. 



Nat. Ord. Verbenace^e. — Didtnamia Angiospermia. 



Gen. Char. — Calyx brevis, campanulatus, 5-fidus. Corolla irregularis, 

 tubo reclinato, limbo insequaliter 5-partito subbilabiatim patente, lacinia 

 postica resupinata cucullato-galeata, reliquis planiusculis. Stamina 4, 

 didynama, corollas tubo inserta, longe exserta. filamentis adscendentibus 

 basi subpaleaceo-hirsutis, aBstivatione intra galcaui circinato-convolutis ; 

 antherae sagittato-ovataa, bilocularos, loculis introrsis parallelis rima hianti 

 dehiscentibus. Ovarium 4-loculare, loculis uniovulatis ; stylus filiformis, 

 stamina superans ; stigmate bifido. Drupa vix carnosa, tetrapyrena vel 

 abortu mono- di- tripyrena, apice lobata, pyrenis distinctis unilocularibus, 

 putamine pergamentaceo laavi. Semen crassum, oleosum, radicula infera 

 brevi. — Frutices Africani. Folia opposita, simplicia. Corymbi axillares, 

 pauciflori, trichotomi. 



Ctclonema myricoides ; ramulis angulatis cum pedunculis petiolis nervoque 

 foliorum medio subtus puberulis, foliis oppositis lanceolato-vel obovato 

 oblongis acuminatis in petiolum brevissimum attenuatis superne grosse 

 serratis rarius integerrimis supra scabris subnitidis subtus opacis, cymis 

 pedunculatis folium subajquantibus exsertisve paucifloris, calycibus longe; 

 pedicellatis, tubo subgloboso, lobis obtusis. 



Cyclonema myricoides, Hochst. in Schimp. PI. Abyss., Nos. 330 and 1839 ; 

 Schauer, in DC. Prodr. vol. ii. p. 675 



Spironema myricoides, Hochst. I. c. No. 330. 



Clerodendeon myricoides, R. Br. 1 in Salt's Voyage, Append., p. 64. 



A small stove shrub, which has long been in cultivation in 

 the Palm-house at Kew, flowering annually in spring ; but 

 how or from whom procured is not known. The genus to 

 which it belongs, a very near ally, if not indeed identical 

 with Clerodendron, is a native of tropical and subtropical 

 Africa ; where C. myricoides extends from Abyssinia to 



may 1st, 1870. 



