| Pas. 8474, 
CLERODENDRON Baker, 
Tropical Africa, 
VERBENACEAE. ‘Tribe VITICEAR. 
CLERODENDRON, Linn. ; Benth, et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 1155. 
Clerodendron Bakeri, Girke in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. vol. viii. p. 175; Baker in 
Dyer, Fl. Trop. Africa, vol. v. p. 296; affinis C. Schweinfurthii, Giirke, 
sed foliis superne grosse repando-dentatis calycis dentibus majoribus 
differt. 
Fruter ad 1°3 m. altus; rami juniores pubescentes. Folia oblongo-elliptica vel 
obovato-elliptica, acute subcaudatim acuminata, basi rotundata vel leviter 
cuneata, 9-20 em. longa, 5-10 cm. lata, parte superiore grosse repando- 
dentata, parte inferiore integra vel subintegra, tenuiter chartacea, nervis 
exceptis utrinque glabra, nervis infra puberulis vel interdum parce pilosis, 
lateralibus utrinque circiter 8 arcuatis infra prominentibus, nervis tertiariis 
laxe subparallelis; petioli 1-5-2-5 cm. longi, verrucosi, tomentelli. Cymae 
axillares, pedunculatae, dense multiflorae, circiter 12 cm. expansae; 
peduneuli 5-15 cm. longi, glabri vel parce puberuli; bracteae bracteo- 
laeque lineari-subulatae, usque ad 3 mm. longae, puberulae. Fores albi. 
Calycis tubus longe campanulatus, 3 mm. longus, circiter 2 mm. diametro, 
glaber ; dentes triangulares, subobtusi, vix 2 mm. longi, glabri. — Corollue 
tubus gracilis, 3-3-5 em. longus, extra glaber; lobi patentes, elliptici vel 
oblongo-elliptici, apice rotundati, 6-8 mm. longi, 4-5 mm. lati, glabri. 
Filamenta circiter 15 cm. exserta, erecta, demum recurva, glabra; antherae 
vix 2mm. longae. Stylus gracillimus, ad 2 cm. exsertus, glaber. Fructus 
niger, obovoideus, 1 cm. longus, glaber, calyce accrescente carnoso albes- 
cente parte inferiore cinctus.—C. congense, Baker in Kew Bulletin, 1892, 
p. 127, non Engler.—J. Hurcurnson. 
The pleasing Clerodendron which forms the subject of our 
illustration is a native of West Tropical Africa, where it has 
been collected both in the region of the Lower Congo and 
in Sierra Leone. In the latter country it occurs, according 
to Mr. Scott Elliot, near rivers, and forms a handsome 
fragrant shrub about four feet high. The plant from which 
the material for our figure has been obtained is one which 
was presented to Kew in 1910 by Captain Munro, R.N., of 
Woodlands, Binfield. Grown in a tropical stove it flowered 
in March and ripened fruits in June 1911, and again in 1912. 
The nearest ally of C. Bakeri is C. Schweinfurthii, Giirke, a 
species collected by Dr. Schweinfurth in’ Niam-niamland, 
which is most easily distinguished by its almost entire leaves 
January, 1913, 
