432 XCVII. A^ERBENACE.E. 



:3. Clerodendron serratum, Sprewj. S>/st. Veg. v. 2 (1825) p. 758, 

 A shrub 3-8 ft. high, scarcely woody, not much branched ; stems bluntly 

 quadrangular ; young parts usually glabrous. Leaves often some 

 ternate as well as opposite (passing into bracts above), sometimes 

 reaching as much as 11 in. long but usually 5-G by 2l-2| in., oblong or 

 elliptic, acute, coarsely and sharply serrate (sometimes but rarelv only 

 dentate), glabrous, base acute ; petioles very stout, \ in. long. Flowers 

 numerous, showy, in lax pubescent dicbotomous cymes, with a pair of 

 acute bracts at each branching and a flower in the fork, each in the axil 

 of a large leafy bract and collectively forming a long lax terminal 

 usually pyramidal erect panicle 6-10 in. long; pedicels often twisted 

 so as to make the large lower corolla-lobe appear uppermost ; bracts 

 i_l 1 in. long, from obovate to lanceolat^N pubescent, subpersistent, often 

 colored. Calyx -J- in. long, puberulous, cup-shaped, truncate, not enlarged 

 in fruit ; lobes very small, triangular, acute, ciliolate. Corolla glabrous 

 outside, pale-blue, the large lower lobe (often appearing upper in flower) 

 dark bluish-purple; tube | in. long, cylindric, hairy within at the 

 insertion of the stamens, oblique at the mouth ; the 2 upper and 2 

 lateral lobes elliptic, obtuse, flat, spreading, ^ in. long, the lower lobe 

 lip-like, more than | in. long, concave, deflexed. Filaments much 

 curved, densely hairy at the base. Ovary and style glabrous. Drupe 

 1 in. long, somewhat succulent, broadly obovoid, normally 4-lobed with 

 ] pvrene in each lobe (1-3 often suppressed). FI. B. I. v. 4, p. 592 ; 

 Grab. Cat. p. 157; Dalz. & Gibs. p. 200; Wight, Icon. t. 1472: Trim. 

 Fl Cevl. V. 3, p. 360 ; Talb. Trees, Bomb. ed. 2, p. 272 ; Woodr. in 

 Journ.'Bomb. Nat. v. 12 (1899) p. 360 ; Watt, Diet. Econ. Prod. v. 2, 

 p_ 374. — Flowers: Aug.-Sept. Yern. Bhdrang. 



Konkan: Stocksl Miradonger near Pen, Balsell ^- Gibson; Salseite, N/m mo ex 

 Graham. Deccan : Khandala, Grnhnm, Dalzell ^- Gihson, Bhiva ! ; Mahableshwar, 

 Cookel- Kartriz Gh;lt, Sirpafil; Piirandhar, Woodrowl — Distuib. More or less 

 throughout India ; Ceylon. 



4. Clerodendron infortunatum, Linn. Sj-). PI. (1753) p. 037. A 

 shrub 3-8 ft. high, often gregarious ; branchlets bluntl\' quadrangular, 

 clothed with yellowish silky pubescence. Leaves large, 4-10 by 3|-8 in., 

 ovate, acuminate, thinly hairy on both sides, more strongly so on the 

 nerves beneath, entire or denticulate, reticulately veined, base cordate 

 or rounded ; petioles 11-4 in. long, cylindric, hairy. Flowers on rather 

 long pubescent pedicels, in stalked cymes forming large pubescent 

 ])anicles ; bracts leafy, deciduous. Calyx | in. long in flower, much 

 enlarged in fruit (sometimes reaching in fruit 1^ in. across the lobes 

 when spread out), divided to within about § in. of the base, silky- 

 pubescent ; segments broadly lanceolate, very acute. Corolla densely 

 pubescent outside, white tinged with pink ; tube | in. long, slender ; 

 lobes exceeding | in. long, oblong, obtuse. Filaments glabrous. Ovary 

 and stvle glabrous. Drupe g in. in diam., black, nearly globose, seated 

 on the enlarged pink calvx, containing 4-1 pyrenes. Fl. B. I. v. 4, 

 p. 594 ; Grab. Cat. p. 157'; Dalz. & Gibs. p. 200 ; AVight, Icon. 1. 1471 ; 

 Bedd. For. Man. in Flor. 8ylvat. p. clxxiii ; Trim. Fl. Ceyl. v. 3, p. 361 ; 

 Talb. Trees, Bomb. cd. 2, p. 272 ; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 12 

 (1S99) p. 360; Watt, Diet. Econ. Prod. v. 2, p. 373.— Flowers : 

 Oct. J;in. YT.-ny. BhnndWa. 



