VERBENACEAE 401 
1. C. cana L. (C. bicolor Juss.). Tambabasi, Tubang-dalag (Tag.). 
A shrub 2 to 4 m high, the young branches, inflorescences, petioles, and 
lower surface of the leaves densely covered with short, grayish or whitish, 
stellately arranged hairs. Leaves oblong-ovate, acuminate, base acute or 
acuminate, margin sharply toothed, 6 to 14 cm long, 2.5 to 5 em wide, 
the lower surface pale, the upper glabrous, green, dark-colored when dry. 
Cymes axillary, short-peduncled, dichotomous, 2 to 4 cm long. Flowers 
pale-purplish or lavender, about 3 mm long. Fruits fleshy, globose, pale- 
lavender, 4 to 5 mm in diameter when fresh. 
In thickets, Masambong, fl. June—Oct.; widely distributed in the Phil- 
ippines. Malay Peninsula and Archipelago. 
2. C. blancoi Rolfe. Tambabasi, Tubang-dalag (Tag.). 
A shrub 1 to 3 m high, the younger parts thinly or densely covered 
with short, stellately arranged, brownish or pale’hairs. Leaves ovate- 
lanceolate to oblong-lanceolate, slenderly long-acuminate, base acute or 
obtuse, 5 to 15 cm long, of about the same color on both surfaces when 
dry, the lower surface thinly stellate-pubescent and with numerous, small, 
waxy, yellow glands. Inflorescence and flowers as in the preceding species. 
(Fl. Filip. Pl. 417, C. americana.) 
In dry thickets Masambong to Guadalupe, fi. March—Oct.; widely dis- 
tributed in the Philippines. Formosa. 
9. CLERODENDRON Linnaeus 
Shrubs or trees, sometimes climbing. Leaves opposite, simple, entire 
or toothed. Cymes axillary and forming terminal panicles, the bracts 
small or large. Calyx campanulate, truncate, toothed, or lobed, persistent, 
often enlarged and colored in fruit. Corolla-tube slender, cylindric, often 
very long, the limb spreading, 5-fid, more or less oblique.. Stamens 4, 
exserted. Ovary imperfectly 4-celled, 4-ovuled. Fruit a globose, fleshy 
drupe, rarely nearly or quite dry, 4-grooved, and separating into 4 pyrenes, 
1 to 3 of which are often suppressed. (Greek “chance” and “tree,” the 
application of the name not evident.) 
Species about 100 in the tropics of both hemispheres, mostly in the Old 
World, about 25 in the Philippines. 
1. A slender vine; calyx-lobes white; corolla-lobes red; cultivated. 
1. C. thomsonae 
1. Erect undershrubs, shrubs, or small trees. 
2. Corolla-tube 5 cm long or more. 
3. Calyx in flower about 2.5 cm long, inflated................ 2. C. minahassae 
3. Calyx in flower about 1 cm long, not inflated... 3. C. quadriloculare 
2. Corolla-tube 1 to 3.5 cm long. 
3. Inflorencesce mostly terminal. 
4, Cymes very dense; flowers white or pink, double, 3 to 5 cm in 
EE ee ey Ee rs Sa Soe Sane eae 4. C. fragrans 
4, Cymes lax; flowers single, red, slender................ 5. C. intermedium 
3. Inflorescence axillary. 
4. Leaves toothed; cultivated, sparingly pubescent plant, not or 
slightly branched (yes lessee .4e 6. C. calamatosum 
4, Leaves entire, glabrous; peduncles mostly 3-fiowered; fruit dry, 
splitting into 4 PYTeMeS.....5:.20..--22. civssesenencnniines 7. C. commersonii 
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