Clerode?tdron.'] Verbenacecu. 359 



pair, oblong-oval, acute at base, obtuse, entire, glabrous, or 

 very slightly pubescent beneath, rather thick, venation pellu- 

 cid, finely reticulate, fl. moderate-sized, on short pubescent 

 ped., C3nnes axillary, long-stalked, dichotomous, lax, spreading, 

 bracts long, linear; cal. pubescent, segm. shallovvly triangular, 

 acute; cor. densely pubescent outside, the 4 upper lobes oval- 

 oblong, obtuse, the lowest larger, crisped, hairy in the centre ; 

 drupe supported on enlarged flattened cal., about f in, broadly 

 oblong-ovoid, very blunt, smooth, dark purple, stone large, 

 4~celled and -seeded. 



Dry country ; common, especially near tanks. Fl. July, Aug.; white 

 with purplish hair. 



Also in -Southern India. 



First noticed by Koenig. Wood dark grey, hard, fine-grained, durable, 

 shining. 



10. CZiERODENDRON,^ L. {Clerodendnim). 



Shrubs or small trees, rarely sub-scandent; 1. opp., simple; 

 fl. rather large, in small cymes, usually combined into terminal 

 panicles; cal. campanulate, segm. 5, sometimes enlarged in 

 fruit; cor.-tube usually long, lobes 5, the lowest one usually 

 longer than the rest ; stam. 4, didynamous, much exserted ; 

 ov. 2- (or 4-) celled, ovules 4, style bifid ; fruit dry or succu- 

 lent, with 4 pyrenes (i to 3 often suppressed). — Sp. 70; 22 in 

 Fl. B. Ind. 



Cymes small, axillary, distinct . . . . i. C. inerme. 

 Cymes collectively forming a terminal panicle. 

 Cal. not enlarged in fruit. 



Cal. -segm. long, ovate, acuminate . . 2. C. Phlomidis. 



Cal.-segm. very short, broadly triangular . 3. C. serratum. 



Cal. much enlarged in fruit . . . . 4. C. INFORTUNATUM. 



I. C. inerme, Gaertn. Fruct. i. 271 (1788). Wal-gurenda, S. 

 Pinchil, Pinari, T. 



Herm. Mus. 23. Burm. Thes. 127. Fl. Zeyl. n. 231. Volkameria 

 inerinis, L. Sp. PI. 637. Moon Cat. 46. Thw. Enum. 243. C. P. 1947. 

 Fl. B. Ind. iv. 589. Rheede, Hort. Malab. v. t. 49. 



A shrub, 3-5 ft., much-branched, with virgate glabrous 

 twigs, bark pale brown; 1. small, i-i| in., oval or oblong- 

 oval, acute at base, obtuse, entire, quite glabrous, rather thick, 

 copiously gland-dotted beneath, petiole \ in. ; fl. moderate- 

 sized, on rather long ped., cymes 3-fld. axillary, peduncles 

 shorter than 1.; cal. glabrous, segm. triangular, acute, rather 



* From /cXjJpof, a lot (in a lottery). Name given by Burman, sug- 

 gested by Hermann's Latin name for No. 4. 



