DECEMBER 14, 1908] TungE Score or New PLANTS 515 
Type specimen 8679, A. D. E. Elmer, Baguio, Province of 
Benguet, Luzon, March, 1907. 
Named after Mr. W. Klemme of the Forestry Bureau, who 
first discovered it in the province of Lepanto. 
Its much smaller leaves, much larger and more numerously 
branched paniculate cymes, and the double length of its corolla 
tube serve to segregate it from C. similis Merr. 
Clerodendron preslii Elm. n. sp. 
Strict tree, 7 m. high; wood soft, white, odorless and 
tasteless; bark smoothish, brown; branches lax, slender, di- 
varicate, mostly above the middle; the twigs angular and densely 
covered with a short dark rusty brown pubescence. Leaves op- 
posite, flat, horizontally spreading, submembranous, dull green 
and glabrous above except the nerves, yellowish green beneath 
caused. by the very numerous fine glands, exceedingly va- 
riable in size, the average blade 15 cm. long by 5 em. wide 
below the middle, entire or merely apiculate to even den- 
tate, ovate, slenderly tapering into the long acuminate point, 
base broadly obtuse or subtruncate, ovate; petioles slender, 
varying from 1 to 10 cm. long, similarly pubescent as the 
twigs; nerves 5 to 7 lateral pairs, prominent beneath, short 
brown pubescent, the basal pair arising from near the base, 
ascending, tips obscurely united, the cross bars parallel and 
quite prominent. Inflorescence terminal, sparsely paniculate, 
the basal pair of branches subtended by small leaves, less 
than 1 dm. long, sparsely flowered; secondary peduncles strict, 
terete, pubescent, ascending, 1 to 3 em. long; pedicels 8 mm. 
long, similarly covered with dense woolly hairs; calyx tubular, - 
somewhat flattened, dark purple, ascending, 2.5 cm. long, 
6 mm. thick above the middle, rufous pubescent toward the 
base, terminated by 5 acuminate teeth; 6 mm. long co- © 
rola deciduous, white throughout, 3 to 5 cm. long, glab- | 
rous, the basal 2 to 3 em. slenderly tubular, terminated by 5 
lobes; the lobes 1.5 cm. long, oblong to obovate; stamens 
4; filaments whitish, glabrous, inserted upon the throat of a 
the corolla, as long as the segments, the upper portion re- 
curved; anthers dark brown or nearly black, dorsifixed, ver- - 
satile, 2.5 mm. long, oblong, bifid at the base; style very 
slender, glabrous, nearly 5 cm. long; stigma 2-lobed; ovary 
