218 VERBENACES® (Pearson). [ Vitex. 
stamens inserted above the middle of the corolla-tube, far exserted ; 
filaments densely villous at the base; ovary conic, densely villous 
and glandular in the upper half; drupe not seen. 
EasteRN REGION: Delagoa Bay; Mrs, Monteiro, 20! 
XIII. CLERODENDRON, Linn. 
Calyx campanulate, rarely tubular, truncate, 5-toothed or 5-lobed, 
unchanged or accrescent in fruit. Corolla: tube narrow cylindric, 
straight or curved, equal or somewhat wider at the throat; limb 
spreading or reflexed, 5-lobed; lobes subequal or the 4 upper shorter 
and the anterior produced, sometimes concave. Stamens 4, inserted 
at the base of the corolla-throat, exserted, incurved in bud ; anthers 
ovate or oblong with parallel cells. Ovary of 2 carpels imperfectly 
4-chambered, with 1 ovule in each chamber inserted laterally above 
the middle of the septum; style long; stigma apical, shortly and 
acutely 2-lobed. Drupe globose or obovate, usually 4-furrowed or 
4-lobed, with more or less fleshy epicarp and bony or crustaceous 
endocarp, separating into 4 (or, by abortion, fewer) pyrenes, distinct 
or cohering in pairs. Seeds oblong, exalbuminous. 
Glabrous, hairy or rarely felted, sometimes climbing, usnally unarmed trees or 
shrubs; leaves opposite or whorled, entire, rarely toothed or lobed; cymes 
usually lax, pedunculate in the axils of the upper leaves or paniculate at the 
apices of the branches or crowded in a terminal corymb or head; flowers usually 
large and beautiful, white, blue, violet or red; calyx frequently coloured like the 
corolla, white or green. 
About 100 species, chiefly in the warm parts of the Old World; a few in 
Tropical America. 
Section 1. Evu-Cieropenpron, Corolla funnel-shaped with a broad sub- 
equally 5-lobed limb; tube straight, less than 1 in. long. 
Leaves profusely gland-dotted beneath ; corolla-tube 
not exceeding } in. long +e cae ees PLS 
Leaves not gland-dotted ; corolla-tube not less than 
Zin.long.., igs iv “#8 tas ... (2) Rehmanni. 
(1) glabrum. 
Section 2. Cycnonema. Corolla-limb obliquely 5-lobed; anterior lobe 
ear g the posterior 4.and more or less concave; tube bent, less than 1 in. 
ong. 
*Cymes axillary: 
Leaves entire : 
Unarmed shrubs: 
Whole plant glabrous (very rarely more 
or less hirsute) ; leaves profusely and 
minutely gland-dotted beneath ... (3) triphyllum. 
Leaves and branches hirsute; leaves 
with a few relatively large sessile 
black glands beneath .., ak ... (4) hirsutum, 
Shrub armed with spines... a ... (5) spinescens. 
Leaves toothed _... ers res = ... (6) ceraleum. 
*#Cymes long-peduncled, terminal or clustered at the 
ends of short leafy axillary branches <a .. (7) myricoides. 
