224 VERBENACES (Pearson). [ Clerodendron. 
8. €. Wilmsii. (Giirke in Engl. Jahrb. xxviii. 304); a low 
undershrub ; young branches subangular, dark brown ; finely pubes- 
cent, later with glabrous cinereous more or less tuberculate wrinkled 
bark; leaves opposite, sessile or shortly petioled, subcoriaceous, 
oblong or oblong-lanceolate, acute, obtuse or rounded at the apex, 
cuneate at the base, puberulous on the nerves beneath, otherwise 
glabrous, with very numerous minute scales on the upper surface, 
9-19 lin. long, 21-6 lin. broad ; primary lateral nerves 4—5 on each side, 
ascending, obscure above, prominent beneath, with margins entire or 
with 1-3 serrations towards the apex ; cyme terminal, few-flowered, 
bracteate, 14-14 in, long; bracts leafy, sessile, lanceolate, entire or 
serrate, puberulous, 5-8 lin. long; calyx tubular, narrowed at the 
base into the short pedicel, with a sinuate shortly 5-toothed limb, 
puberulous or glabrous without, 2-4 lin. long; corolla-tube narrow, 
straight, glandular-puberulous without, 3-4 times as long as the 
calyx ; 4 upper lobes subequal, subrotund ; lower 1 oblong, exeeed- 
ing the upper; ovary 4-lobed, glabrous; drupe not seen. 
KataHArt ReGion: Transvaal; near Lydenburg, Wilms, 1082! Waterval 
River, near Lydenburg, Wilms, 1159! Bosch Veld, at Kameel Poort, Rehmann, 
4825 ! Komati Poort, 1000 ft., Schlechter, 11861! 
9. C. simile (H. H. W. Pearson) ; a low undershrub about 1 ft. 
high ; stems erect from a woody rootstock, subangular, dark coloured, 
finely pubescent, later with glabrous cinereous wrinkled bark ; 
leaves in whorls of 3, sometimes opposite, sessile, coriaceous, oblong 
or elliptic, subacute, obtuse or rounded at the apex, cuneate at the 
base, distantly and acutely serrate towards the apex, puberulous on 
the nerves beneath, otherwise glabrous, with very numerous minute 
seales on the upper surface, with 4-5 ascending primary lateral 
nerves on each side, obscure above, prominent beneath, 1-12 in. 
long, 3—5 lin. broad ; cymes 1-3-flowered, shortly pedunculate, form- 
ing a loose terminal few-flowered panicle about 4 in. long ; bracts 
leafy below, above linear-subulate, ciliate on the margin, otherwise 
glabrous, }—1 lin. long; calyx campanulate with a 5-toothed spread- 
ing sinuate limb, 5-ribbed, puberulous without, 11-2 lin. long ; 
corolla-tube narrow, straight, glandular-puberulous without, 2—1 in. 
long; 4 upper lobes subequal, obovate, glandular-puberulous 
without, about 2 lin, long ; lower 1 oblong, concave, exceeding the 
upper; ovary black, glabrous, 4-lobed ; drupe not seen. 
Katanart Reoion: Transvaal; Boshveld, at Klippan, Rehmann, 5210! 
*€ Gold-fields,”” Baines / ‘ 
In habit this species resembles C. triphyllum and C. hirsutum. In the 
characters of the inflorescence and flower it is allied to OC, Wilmsii, chiefly 
differing in the longer terminal panicle, longer corolla-tube and the whorled 
leaves. 
10. C. Schlechteri (Giirke in Engl. Jahrb. xxviii. 802); alow 
shrub, with glabrous branches; leaves coriaceous, opposite, shortly 
petiolate, brcadly ovate, acute, cuneate at the base, coarsely serrate, 
glabious, 2}—4 in. long, 1-22 in. broad; petiole 5-8 lin. long ; panicle 
