Tab. 7887. 

 CLERODENDRON myrmecophila. 



Native of Singapore. 



Nat. Ord. Veebenace.?!.— Tribe Viticeje. 

 Genus Clerodexdhon, Linn. ; (Benth. $ Hook.f. Gen. Plant, vol. ii. p. 1155.) 



Clerodendron (Euclerodendron) myrmecophila; suffrntex 3-pedalis, parce 

 ramosa, caule crasso tereti fistuloso glabro internodi s tnmidis, cortice 

 albo, foliis oppositis vel alternis pedalibu8 lineari-oblongis obtusis acutisye 

 herbaceis glabris saturate viridibus politis basi acutis obtusis vel cordati.% 

 nervis utrinqne costse ad 12, petiolo 1-3-pollicari fistuloso, panicula pedali 

 terminali erecta pyramidali pubescente multiflora, rachi yiridi, ramis 

 ramulis bracteolis pedicellisque fusco-purpureis, bracteolis subulatis, 

 p.edicellis brevibus, calycis puberuli jj- poll, longi tubo viridi lobis lanceo- 

 latis acutis fusco-purpums, corollas rubro-aurantia a? tubo calyce paullo 

 longiore lobis J poll, longis obovato-oblocgis apice rotuudatis superionbus 

 paullo loDgioribns, filamentis styloque pollicaribus ascendentibus gracilh- 

 mis rubris, antheris parvis, ovario globoso, styli ramis gracilibus, bacca 

 globosa J poll. diam. nigra. 



C. myrmecophila, Ridl. in Journ. Sot. vol. xxxiii. (1895) p. 42. 



This very handsome species of the large tropical genus 

 Clerodendron was discovered in dense forests of Singapore 

 by Mr. H. N. Ridley, M.A., F.L.S., Director of the 

 Gardens and Forest Department of the Straits Settle- 

 ments, who describes it as approaching in habit G. fistulo- 

 sum, Beccari (Malesia ii. 48) of Borneo, a species with 

 capitate inflorescence, but as being nearer to C.panicu- 

 latum, Linn. (tab. 7141), a common tropical Asiatic 

 species, with broad-lobed leaves, an angular stem, and a 

 very different calyx. In both C. myrmecophila and 

 Jistulosum the hollow stems are swollen at the internodes, 

 and there form nests for ants, those of the Singapore plant 

 belonging to the genus Pheidole, Fabricus, those of the 

 Bornean to Colobopsis. Another ant-fostering species is 

 C.formicarum, Giirke (Engler, Bot. Jahrb. xviii. 179) a 

 native of tropical Africa. 



A living plant of G. myrmecophila was received at the 

 Royal Gardens, Kew, from Mr. Ridley in 1896, which 

 flowered in a stove in April, 1.902, when three feet high. 

 There are specimens in the Kew Herbarium, of a very 

 closely allied species from Borneo, and from the Royal 

 Gardens, under the mss. name of G. macroph>/llum, Hook. 



April 1st, 1903. 



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