Clerodendron.| VERBENACE (Pearson). 223 
Eastern ReGIon; Natal; Mooi River Valley, 2000-3000 ft., Gerrard and 
McKen, 1252! Sutherland ! and without precise locality, Gerrard and McKen, 
2024! Swaziland ; near Jackson’s Mission, Mrs. K. Saunders ! 
The foliage does not possess a disagreeable odour (Gerrard). See C, myricoides. 
7. C. myricoides (R. Br. in Salt, Abyss. Append. Ixv.); a low 
erect or scandent shrub, 3-6 ft. high, with leaves and young parts 
pubeseent with short multicellular hairs, or glabrescent ; old branches 
angled, glabrous, striate, with light-brown bark and prominent leaf- 
scars and lenticels ; leaves opposite or whorled, petiolate or sub- 
sessile, membranous, oblong, acuminate, acute or rounded at the apex, 
cuneate at the base, coarsely, irregularly and acutely or obtusely 
serrate or inciso-serrate towards the apex or subentire, with 4—6 
primary lateral nerves on each side, conspicuous beneath, 14-3} in. 
long, 4-2 in. broad ; petiole puberulous or pubescent, j—} in. long ; 
cymes bracteate, lax, 1-3-flowered, forming short, loose, glabrous or 
puberulous panieles, terminal from short leafy axillary branches ; 
bracts and bracteoles linear or linear-lanceolate, pubescent, 13-3} lin. 
long, lower ones frequently larger and leafy; calyx broadly cam- 
panulate, 5-lobed, glabrous or glabreseent, {—} in. in diam. ; lobes 
spreading, broadly ovate, obtuse or rounded at the apex, profusely 
glandular, Jeafy, slightly exceeding the tube; corolla-tube short, 
bent, villous in the throat, otherwise glabrous, up to 4 in. long; 
4 upper lobes subequal, oblong, obtuse or rounded at the apex, 
greenish-white, about + in. long; the lower 1 obovate-spathulate, 
about twice as long as the upper, concave, usually pale blue ; stamens 
and style far exserted ; filaments thickened and densely villous, with 
shaggy hairs in the lower half; ovary globose, black, glabrous, 
glandular, 2-celled; ovules 2 in each cell; drupe deeply lobed, 2—3- 
seeded, 5-6 lin. in diam. near the apex. Vatke in Linnea, xliii. 
535; Baker in Dyer, Fl. Trop. Afr. v.310. Cyclonema myricoides, 
Hochst., in Flora, 1842, 226; Walp. Rep. iv. 101; Schauer in 
DC. Prod. xi. 675; Hook, f. Bot. Mag. t. 5838. C. myricoides, 
Hochst., var. sylvaticum, Schauer lc, 676. C. sylvaticum, and C. 
serratum, Hochst. in Flora, 1842, 227, and 1845, 68; Walp. 
Rep. l.e, 
Var. 8. cuneatum (H. H. W. Pearson); leaves cuneate or cuneate-oblong, 
pubescent ubove, densely so beneath, 14-24 in. long, 14-2 in. broad; cyme 
branches pubescent. C. cuneatum, Giirke in Engl. Jahrb. xxviii. 303, 
Eastern Recion: Natal; in woods near the Umlaas (Umlazi) River, 
Krauss, 383! 335! near Durban, Gueinzius ! Gerrard and McKen, 798! Inanda, 
Wood, 657! Congella, Sanderson, 718! and without precise locality, Gerrard, 
21! 382! Zululand; Eshowe, Mrs. K. Saunders / and without precise locality, 
Mrs. K, Saunders ! 
Katauart ReGion: Var. 8: Transvaal; in a kloof near Schoemanns farm, 
in the Lydenburg District, Wilms, 160! amongst scrub near the water at 
Uwvoti Creek, near Barberton, 3000 ft., Galpin, 601 ! Houtbosch, Rehmann, 
6188. 
Also in Tropical Africa. 
Gerrard states (under C. carulewm) that the foliage possesses a disagreeable 
odour. 
