Verbena. — Duranta. — Clerodendron. 811 
the lower part. Leaves lanceolate, auriculate at the base, half- 
stemclasping, acute, incised-serrate, revolute, pinninerved, on both 
sides hirtulous, scabrid. Panicle terminal, cymose, fastigiate, cymes 
long pedunculate; spikes densely flowered, cylindrical; bracts lan- 
ceolate acuninate, ciliate as long as the calyx. Corolla violet, outside 
villous; tube as long as the calyx. Fruit 2 mm long, 4-cocced. — 
Flow. March. 
N. d. Alexandria, bank of the Mahmudiya-Canal. 
Widely distributed throughout the Tropics. 
461. (4.) Duranta. 
Calyx subcylindrical; teeth 5; minute. Corolla-tube cylindrical; 
lobes 5, spreading, short, obtuse, unequal. Stamens 4, didynamous, 
included in the corolla-tube; anther-cells parallel. Ovary 8-celled; 
cells 1-ovuled; style short; stigma oblique, dilated, 4-lobed. Drupe 
enclosed in the accrescent calyx; pyrenes 4. 2-celled. Seeds exalbu- 
minous. — Shrubs, unarmed or spinous. Leaves opposite or verti- 
cillate, entire or toothed. _ Flowers racemose. 
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Species 4—5, wild only in Tropical America. 
1134. Duranta Plumierii Jacq. Select. Am. (1763), p.186 tab.176 
fig. 76. — Schauer in DC. Prodrom. XI, p.615. — Bot. Regist., tab. 244. 
— Aschers.-Schweinf. Ill. Flor. d’Eg., p. 119 no.811. — Duranta repens 
L. Spec. Plant. I, p.637. — Duranta erecta L. Spec. Plant. I, p. 637. 
— A shrub 1,5—3 m high, with glabrous or finely pubescent 
branchlets, unarmed or spinous. Leaves opposite, distinctly petioled, 
oblong, acute or obtuse, entire or inciso-crenate. Flowers in copious 
long terminal racemes; bracts linear. Flower-calyx 8—10 mm long. 
Corolla bright lilac, more than twice as long as the calyx; lobes 
suborbicular, pubescent inside; expanded limb 5—6 mm diam. . Drupe 
yellow, the size of a pea, much shorter than the closed accrescent 
calyx. — Flow. December to February. 
M. ma. M. p. N.d. N.f. N. v. Cultivated everywhere in gardens 
as on ornamental shrub, often naturalized. 
Local name: benefshig frengy (Ascherson). 
A native of Tropical America, now widely spread in the Old World. 
462. (5.) Clerodendron. 
Calyx not accrescent; tube campanulate; lobes 5, equal, longer 
or shorter than the tube. Corolla-tube cylindrical; lobes 5, obovate, 
spreading or slightly-reflexed, subequal or unequal. Stamens 4, 
inserted below the throat of the corolla-tube; filaments long, filiform, 
