434 XCVTI. VEKBEyACE.T;. 



Clerodendron emirneme, Boj. ex Hook. Bot. Mag. (1829) t. 2925. A 

 much-branched shrub 10-20 ft. high, with ovate or oblong-ovate smooth 

 shining leaves and large terminal corymbs of white flowers sometimes 

 tinged w'ith purple, a native of Emirue in Madagascar, whence its specific 

 name. Grab. Cat. p. 158 ; Woodr. in Jouru. Bomb. Nat. v. 12 (1899) 

 p. 360 & Gard. in Ind. ed. 5, p. 419 (by eiTor emirense). — Flowers : 

 tSept.-Oct. 



Clerodendron Thomsonce, Balf. in Edinb. New Phil. Journ. N. S. v. 15 

 (Jan.-Apr. 18G2) p. 233. A climbing shrub, a native of Tropical Africa, 

 with ovate leaves 3-6 in. long, a white pentagonal calyx, and light crimson 

 corolla with tube 1 in, long. Woodr. in Jouru. Bomb. Nat. v. 12 (1899) 

 p. 3G0 & Gard. in Ind. ed. 5, p. 419. — Flowers : Sept.-Dec. 



12. SYMPHOREMA, Roxb. 



Scandent shrubs. Leaves opposite, entire or toothed. Flowers in 

 pedunculate capitate usually 7-flowered cymes; bracts 6, oblong, involu- 

 crate, accrescent in fruit. Calyx short, obovoid, 4-8-lobed, somewhat 

 accrescent. Corolla small, white ; tube cylindric ; limb with 6-16 sub- 

 equal narrowly oblong lobes. Stamens 6-16 (as many as thecoi'olla-lobes); 

 anthers exserted, ovate, the cells parallel. Ovary 2- or imperfectly 

 4-celled ; ovules 4 ; style tiliforra ; stigma shortly 2-fid. Fruit dry, 

 included in the calyx, 1-seeded. Seed erect ; cotyledons fleshy. — Distmb, 

 Species 3, a Philippine Island one and the 2 following. 



Corolla ^ in. long, 6-8-lobecl 1. S. inrolucratum. 



OoroUa ^ in. long or more, 12-16-lobed 2. S. polyandrum. 



1. Symphorema involucratum, Roxh. Cor. PI. v. 2 (1798) p. 46, 

 t. 186. A cliniliiiigshrub ; stems slender ; young parts stellately tomen- 

 tose. Leaxt'S 2-3 by 1^-lf in., ovate or elliptic, subacute, crenate- 

 serrate or toothed, glabrous above or nearly so when mature, white or 

 pale-buff with close stellate pubescence beneath, base usually rounded ; 

 petioles i in. long. Flow'ers crowded in about 7-flowered capitate 

 ])eduiiculate cymes ; bracts in flower ^ by ^ in., lanceolate, densely 

 pubescent or villous ; bracts in fruit enlarging to 1| by 4 in. and then 

 spatliulate-elli|)tic, thinly pubescent, submembranous, reticulately veined. 

 Calyx ^-4- in. long, stellately toinentose, slightly enlarged in fruit ; lobes 

 y"^ in. long, triangular-oblong, subacute. Corolla white, glabrous, less 

 than 3 in. long, 6-8-lobed ; lobes g in. long, linear-oblong, obtuse. 

 Stamens inserted at the top of the corolla-tube, exserted ; filaments 

 glabrous. Ovary and style glabi'ous. Fruit -i- in. in diam., subglobose, 

 glabrous or nearly so. Fl. B. I. v. 4, p. 599 ; Dalz. & Gibs. p. 199 ; 

 Wight, Icon. t. 362; Trim. Fl. Ceyl. v. 3, p. 363; Talb. Trees, Bomb, 

 ed. 2, p. 273 ; AYoodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 12 (1899) p. 360 ; Prain, 

 Beng. PI. p. 837 ; Watt, Diet. Econ. Prod. v. G, part 3, p. 396.- Flowers : 

 Mar.-May. 



7>r//^fW witliout Icicality in Herb. Kew. Konkan : between Nagotnn and Alibag, 

 Ddhell tf" Gilison ; Wassind (I'lu'ina districts), Woodrovj. Ivanaiia : Law], SforAs'.; 

 nujist f(jrests near Yellapur, Talhot; Arbail Ghiit, Tulhotl — Distiub. India (W. Penin- 

 sula, Birina) ; Ceylon. 



2. Symphorema polyandrum, ^yi'Jllt, Icon. (1840) t. 363. A 

 climbing or spreading shrub, bare of leaves when in flower {Talhot); 



