Clerodendrum. didynamia angiospermia. 57 



according- to age, from four to six inches long, and from three 

 to four broad. Floral leaves small, and very downy. Pa- 

 nicles axillary and terminal, composed of many ascending, 

 opposite pairs of tomentose branches, giving support to the 

 opposite, single, peduncled umbellets of small, white flow- 

 ers. Blades from oblong to cordate, very downy, solitary, 

 sessile, one at the base of each peduncle. /« uo/wcye three- 

 leaved, from six to nine-flowered; leaflets elliptic, downy, 

 pink-coloured, some few of them emarginate, above an inch 

 long, and above half an inch broad. Perianth tubular, very 

 hairy, five-toothed. Carol ; tube the length of the calyx ; bor- 

 der bilabiate ; the exterior lip very long, and bifid ; the under 

 or rather interior one of three oval, equal, sessile segments. 

 JFilamenls didynamous, very long, much exceeding the exte- 

 rior lip of the corol, variously bent. Anthers two-Iobed. 

 Germ sub-turbinate, &c. &.c. exactly as in the former species. 

 Pericarpium not seen. 



A native of Coromandel, where it flowers in the cold season. 



CLERODENDRUM. Schreh. gen. N. 1057- 

 Calyx five-cleft. Corol irregular, fuunel-shaped, Sta^ 

 mina very long. Germ superior, seenis four-celled. Cells 

 one-seeded ; attachment sub interior. Bnry or capsule dry, 

 four-lobed, with a single seed in each, £mbryo erect, with- 

 out perisperm. 



1. C. phlomoides. Willd. iii. 306. 



Arboreous. Leaves ovate-cordate, scollop-dentate, downy. 

 Panicles terminal ; berries turbinate, dry. 



Volkameria multiflora. Burm. Ind. 137. t» 45. y*. 1. 



Telaki of the Telingas. 



Of this small tree, there are two varieties, one, the common 

 one, with white flowers ; the other with red, this variety is 

 rare, a native of the mountainous parts of the coast of Coro- 

 mandel, and diflfers from the white variety in the colour of 



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