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23 he felt somewhat uncertain, and marked as species requiring further examination, and the remaining 
are said to be “species dubiz,” meaning by that, many of them are probably described under other names, 
but which he cannot with certainty ascertain for want of specimens. Of the 92 species named, 34 a 
from India, and about half the number from the Eastern Islands and China; Australia, Africa and America 
contribute the rest. Many are plants of great beauty, “and are prized as conservatory and hot-house plants 
in English collections, and several have been figured in English Botanica! periodicals. 
Some of the species are remarkable for the very heavy disagreeable odour their leaves give out when 
bruised, somewhat similar to that of the well-known green-bug of India. The C. 1nexme which is, or used 
to be, employed as a substitute for the Privet, as an edging for garden walks about Madras and elsewhere 
near the coast, partakes of this quality in a very marked degree. In addition to the C. serratum, there is 
another with pretty large white flowers, not uncommon on the Hills about Coonoor and the slopes below 
that station, called C. infortunatum in allusion to some supposed unhappy property. The name Cleroden- 
dron means — big dirteT ae e we have among its species the curious specific names of C. fortu- 
natum, C. calamitosum, C. infortunatum, though — is no reason to believe them better or worse than 
their neighbours. "We have again among its species, C. fragrans and C. putre, the latter being described as 
a “planta fetidissima.” One of the Indian ite is said to be used medicinally by the Natives but 
Ido not know for what purpose. 
{In regard to the extent of its geographical oan C. serratum is remarkable, Nepaul, Silhet, Assam, 
Java, Ceylon, and generally over the Peninsular mountai 
CLERODENDRON SERRATUM renee ramuli eas A rather common plant, in re woods and sub- 
drangular, furrowed, and with the leaves glabrou eping jungles. Abundant on the Se aga and 
leaves opposite or tani ate, pice aah Sa peaoled, ther So teate in open pasture ground, a very con- 
ovate, oblong or even lanceolate, cuniato-attenuate, spicuous objec 
entire at the base, acuminate, remotely mucronato-ser- The Fe ti are deep green, the flowers blue, 
rato-dentate, somewhat shining above, pale beneath: deeper at the apex, toceutiy paler downwards, 
panicles terminal, raceme-like, whitish, from mealy sometimes with a considerable tinge of rose, whic 
pale, membranaceous, acuminate, bracts ovate, round- plant. es varies from one to six feet in 
ish, bracteoles metre cymes two or tikes: tnd eight, rarely so low as the first, or higher than the 
trifid, loose: calyx cup-shaped, sub-truncated, very las 
ci 5-toothed : uke of the corolla “églindslesh 
e than twice the length of the calyx. 
GMELINA. 
Calyx cup-shaped, 4-5-toothed, persistent, somewhat enlarged with the fruit. Corolla tubular at the 
base, greatly enlarged at the throat, ventricosely bell-shaped; limb spreading, bilabiately 4-5-lobed, the 
anterior one larger, inflexed in estivation. amens 4, didynamous, ascending, scarcely exserted ; anthers 
2-celled, attached by the middle, cells distinct, opening pe aa te Ovary 2-4-celled, cells 1-ovuled ; 
style filiform; stigma equally bifid. Drupe baccate, nut solitary, berry smooth, 4-celled, perforated at the 
Seed pendulous radicle inferior, Shrubs or Sascuk large trees, branches usually thorny: leaves 
simple, opposite, entire or lobed; inflorescence cymoso-paniculate, panicles raceme-like or composed 0 
short few-flowered decussating cymules, or simply racemed ; bracts often caducous; corolla conspicuous. 
Drupe —— oblong. 
This is a small genus of some 10 or 11 species, only 7 of which are defined in Schauer’s iat 
eg its publication, Sir W. Hooker aeper one, I believe the one here represented, under the nam 
dii, accompanied by a figure. I have seen neither the figure nor description and therefore Aiea 
. be his reasons for considering it distinct from Roxburgh’s G. arborea. 
When I published the accompanying plate in the Icones, I was, as will be seen by the remarks 
appended to the specific character which accompanied, of opinion that the Malabar plant was not distinct 
from the Bengal one. I am now quite satisfied that they are different species and most easily distinguished, 
so easily that I now almost wonder how I then overlooked the palpable difference, even though the same 
specific character, with the exception of a single word might serve for both, That exception is found in 
the corolla. In Roxburgh’s plant it is 4-lobed with the larger anterior one emarginate, in ours it is 5-lobed 
with “ larger lobe entire. But for this difference of structure, I should have hesitated to consider them 
