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A shrub or small tree, the branchlets, inflorescenees, and 
lower surfaces of the leaves very densely stellate-pubescent with 
pale or yellowish indumentum, the hairs simply stellate, not at 
all plumose-stellate. Branches terete, grayish, older ones 
glabrous. Leaves ovate to oblong-ovate, chartaceous to sub- 
coriaceous, 9 to 11 cm long, 4 to 5.5 cm wide, rather abruptly 
narrowed below to the distinctly decurrent-acuminate base, the 
apex somewhat acuminate, the margins crenulate in the upper 
two-thirds, the upper surface, when dry, very dark-brown, shin- 
_ing, the reticulations impressed, rather close, ultimately glabrous 
except for the stellate hairs along the midrib and lateral nerves, 
the lower surface pale yellowish-brown or somewhat straw- 
colored, uniformly and densely stellate-pubescent, the glands, if 
present, entirely obscured by the indumentum; lateral nerves 5 
on each side of the midrib, prominent, curved-ascending, anas- 
tomosing; petioles densely stellate-pubescent, 10 to 12 mm long. 
Cymes axillary, one in each axil, peduncled, the peduncles 7 mm 
long or less, dichotomously branched, the whole cyme 2 cm 
long and wide or somewhat less, all parts densely stellate-pubes- 
cent. Flowers numerous, rather crowded. Calyx densely stel- 
late-pubescent, obovoid, truncate or minutely 4-toothed, base 
acute, about 1.5 cm long and nearly as wide. Corolla 3 mm long, 
glabrous, the lobes 4, broadly elliptic-ovate, rounded, about 1.3 
mm long. Stamens exserted; anthers ellipsoid, waxy-glandular 
on the back with small yellow glands, about 1.2 mm long. Fruit 
depressed-globose, glabrous, 2 mm in diameter. 
Guam Experiment Station 292, in rocky places at Asan, January, 1912. 
A species much resembling the Philippine Callicarpa erioclona Schauer, 
and probably as closely allied to that species as to any other. It differs 
notably in its much fewer-nerved leaves. 
CLERODENDRON Linnaeus 
CLERODENDRON COMMERSONII! (Poir.) Spreng. Syst. 2 (1825) 758. 
Volkameria commersonii Poir. in Lam. Encycl. 8 (1808) 688. 
Clerodendron nereifolium Wall. Cat. (1829) No. 1789. 
Clerodendron inerme W. F. Wight ex Safford in Contr. U.S. Nat. Herb. 
9 (1905) 231, non Gaertn. 
McGregor 463, G. E. S. 141, 482, locally known as lodtgao. 
The Guam species is the form named by Wallich Clerodendron nerei- 
folium, which is retained by most authors as distinct from Clerodendron 
inerme Gaertn. Poiret’s name is the older and is here retained. The 
species extends from Burma and the Malay Peninsula to southern China, 
Formosa, Malaya, Australia, and Polynesia. 
