( 3049 ) 



Clerodendron nutans. Drooping- 

 flowered clerodendron. 



Class and Order. 



DlDYNAMIA AnGIOSPERMIA. 



( Nat. Ord. — Verbenace^e. ) 



Generic Character. 



Cal. 5-fidus (nunc 5-dentatus). Cor. tubo cylindrico ; 

 limbo5-partito, patente, laciniis subaequalibus. Stam. juxta 

 faucem inserta, exserta, adscendentia : antherarurn loculis 

 parallelis. Bacca pyrenis 4, monospermis. Br. 



Specific Character. 



Clerodendrum nutans; fruticosa, erecta, glabra, ramis acute 

 tetragonis, apice nutantibus ; foliis ternis vel oppositis, 

 oblongis, longe acuminatis, integerrimis, basi attenu- 

 atis, brevissime petiolatis, panicula oblonga, laxe pen- 

 dula, pedunculis bis dichotomis, calyce ventricoso 

 tubo corolla? parum breviore, limbo secundo. Wallich. 



Descr. A branchy, erect shrub, two to four feet high, 

 Mem as thick as a thumb, covered with brownish, even, 

 a nd pretty smooth bark. Branches spreading, dotted, 

 acutely four-sided, as well as all the other parts perfectly 

 smooth; their outer ends nodding. Leaves opposite or ter- 

 nate, rarely subalternate, spreading, twice or thrice longer 

 than their interstices, short-petioled, oblong, finely acumi- 

 nate, entire, slightly waved, narrowing downwards into a 

 sharp base, five to seven inches long, dark green and glossy 

 above, opaque and pallid underneath, with elevated rib 

 and oblique nerves : the latter uniting within the margins 

 "y means of curved veins. The uppermost leaves as well 

 as the floral ones much smaller than the rest, narrow- 

 lanceolate, 



