Clerodendron.] VERBENACKE (Pearson). 219 
***Cymes forming a terminal panicle : 
Leaves and branches puberulous or pubescent; 
leaves covered with minute scales above : 
Leaves opposite ee ase ws ... (8) Wilmsii. 
Leaves in whorls of 8 .., i a. ... (9) simile. 
Leaves aud branches glabrous... Gi ... (10) Schlechteri. 
1. C. glabrum (E. Meyer, Comm. 278); a shrub or small tree, 
_ 4-15 ft. high; branches finely pubescent when young, later becoming 
glabrous, with light-grey’ bark and prominent lenticels ; leaves 
opposite or in whorls of 3 or 4, petiolate, subcoriaceous, ovate, 
elliptic or lanceolate, acute or obtuse at the apex, cuneate at the base, 
entire, glabrous (or puberulous on the nerves), shining, profusely 
glandular-punetate beneath, with 4-7 primary lateral nerves on each 
side, prominent beneath, 1—4 in. long, 1—3 in, broad ; petiole slender, 
4-% in. long; cymes many-flowered, bracteate, contracted into a 
dense pyramidal or corymbose terminal panicle, lower ones in the 
axils of the upper leaves; bracts and bracteoles linear or linear- 
subulate, glabrous or pubescent, 2-3 lin. long; flowers pedicelled, 
white ; calyx campanulate, 5-lobed, glabrous, puberulous or pubes- 
cent, with numerous sessile spherical glands without, 13—3 lin. long; 
lobes about half as long as the tube, subulate, acute; corolla-tube 
straight, finely puberulous and glandular, 3-4 lin. long; lobes sub- 
equal; ovary oblong, glabrous, 2-celled; ovules 2 in each cell; 
style far exserted ; drupe about the size of a pea, glabrous, slightly 
exserted from the spreading accrescent calyx, containing 1 or 2 
l-seeded pyrenes. Walp. Rep. iv. 110; Schauer in DC. Prod. 
xi. 661 ; Baker in Dyer, Fl. Trop. Afr. v. 297 ; Wood, Natal Plants, 
t. 45. ©. glabrum, var. angustifolia, E. Meyer, l.c.; Walp. l.c. 
C. capense, Ecklon § Zeyher ex Schauerl.c. C. ovale, Baker in 
Dyer, Fl. Trop. Afr. v. 298 partly. Ehretia triphylla, Hochst. in 
Flora, 1844, 830. Amerina triphylla, A.DC. in DC. Prod. ix. 518. 
Siphonanthus glabra, Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 842. S. 
glabra, var. vaga, Hiern l.c. 
Var. B, ovale (H. H. W. Pearson); young branches pubescent; leaves 
pubescent beneath and on the nerves above ; panicle, branches, bracts and calyx 
pubescent or villous. ©. ovale, Klotsch in Peters, Reise Mossamb. Bot, 257; 
Vatke in Linnea, xiii, 537; O. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. Pl. iii. 250; Baker in Dyer, 
Fl. Trop. Afr., v. 298 partly. 
Sourn ArricA: among the stunted bush of the sand-hills near the coast, 
MacOwan, 748! 
Coast Reoion: Albany Div.; without precise locality, Cooper, 3496! 
Bathurst Div. ; Port Alfred, 50 ft., Galpin, 2937! Komgha Div.; on the banks 
of the River Kei, 500 ft., Drége. 
KALAHARTt REGION: Transvaal; near Barberton, Thorncroft, 48 (in Herb. 
Wood, 4170)! Highland Creek near Barberton, 2900 ft., Galpin, 774} 
EasterRN ReGion: Transkei; banks of the Bashee River, Drége! Fort 
Bowker, on the Xnabara River, Bowker, 549; Natal; near Durban, Gerrard 
and MecKen, 661! Krauss, 100! Hewitson! Inanda, 1000-2000 ft., Wocd, 
7551! and without precise locality, Sanderson! Gerrard, 726! Cooper, 1220! 
Zululand ; without precise locality, Gerrard, 638! Var. 8: Natal; Inanda, 
Wood, 1204! Clairmont, Kuntze, and without precise locality, Cooper, 1214! 
