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9. CLERODENDRON, Linn. J Fl. Brit. Ind. iv, 589. 



Trees or shrubs, sometimes Barmentose. Leave* opposite, rarely 

 3-4-nate. simple entire or lobed. Flowers in axillary cymes or 

 terminal panicles, often leafy below, bracts conspicuous or small. 

 Calyx oampanolate ; limb truncate 5-toothed or almost 5-partite, 

 persistent, often accrescent, sometimes coloured. Corolla -tithe slender, 

 usually long, limb more or less oblique ; lobes 5, spreading. Stamens 

 didynamons, much exserted; anthers ovate or oblong, the cells 

 parallel. Ovary imperfectly 4-oelled, with I ovule in each cell, style 

 liliform, stigma shortly bitid. Fruit a globose usually succulent 

 drape, 4-grooved and separating into 4 pyrenes of which. 1-3 are 

 sometimes suppressed. — Species about 100, chiefly in the warm regions 

 of the Old World, a few in Trop. America. 



Corolla irregularly salver-shaped, % in. long or less: — 



Calyx not or only slightly enlarged in fruit : — 



Calyx-lobes long, ovate-acuminate ; leaves 



opposite, less than 3 in. long . . . 1. C. Pldomidis. 



Calyx-lobes very short, broadly triangular ; 

 leaves often in whorls of 3. reaching more 

 than 6 in. long . . . . . 2. C. serratum. 



Calyx much enlarged in fruit and turning 



red . . . . . . . . 3. C. infortunatum. 



Corolla narrowly funnel-shaped, 3-4 in. long or 



longer . . . . . . . . 4. C. Siphonanthus. 



1. C. Phlomidis, Linn. f. Suppl. 292; Cooke Fl. Bonrh. it, 431. C. 

 phlomoides. Linn. f. ; Roxb. Fl. Ind. Hi, 57 ; RoylellL 299; Brandis For. 

 Fl. 363 ; hid. Trees 507 ; F. B. I. iv, 590 ; Watt E. D. ; Gamble Man. Ind. 

 Titnb. 543 ; Praia b&r.a. PI. S35.— Vera. Urui. 



A large shrub, or small tree, up to 30 ft. high; young parts pubescent. 

 Leu • 1 . --I in. long, ovate or subhomboid, obtuse or acute, coarsely 

 crenate-dentate or entire, undulate, glabrous above, more or less 

 puberulous beneath, base tru7icate or subcordate, petioles i~| in., 

 pubescent. Flov.ers medium-sized, in small 2-chotomous axillary cymes 

 forming a roundel terminal panicle ; pedicels slender ; bracts leaf-like, 

 obovate or lanceolate, acute, Calyx about f in. long., divided about £- 

 way down, glabrous or puberulous, slightly enlarged in fruit ; lobes 

 ovate, acutely acuminate, veined. Corolla white or pink ; tube $ in. 

 long., sparingly pubescent outside ; lobes under { in. long, elliptic, 

 obtuse, veined. Drupe i in. long,, broadly obovoid, black when ripe. 



Common in the drier parts of the area, and often found in hedges, also in 

 the Sub-Himalayan tracts of Kohilkhand and X. Oudh. Flowers during 



