12. Gmelina.] 105. VERBENACE^. 



2. G. asiatica, L. Nag-phul, H. 



A large shrub, with yellow, often spinescent, branchlets, small 

 ovate to obovate or rhomboid entire or usually lobed obtuse leaves 

 •5-1-5" long, cuneate on a slender petiole, and yellow flowers 1'5" long 

 in short tomentose racemes 1-2" long. Drupe "75" ovvDid or obovoid, 

 2-seeded. 



Wild or, probably, escaped on the sandstones near Rairakhol, not far from the 

 town! Often grown in prardens. Fl. April- June. 



Leaves in the Rairakhol plant somewhat fleshy. Calyx and corolla with small 

 glistenino^ glands as well as somewhat pubescent. 



13. CLERODENDRON, L. 



Trees or shrvibs, sometimes rambling, or subherbaceous, Avith oppo- 

 site or 3-nate, often palminerved and glandular, simple leaves and 

 large or mod. -sized usually showy flowers in axillary or terminal 

 panicled cymes. Calyx campanulate, persistent, often accrescent and 

 brilliantly coloured in fruit. Corolla zygomorphic with a slender 

 iisually filiform tube and a more or less oblique 5-fid spreading limb. 

 Stamens 4, exserted. Ovary imperfectly 4- celled. Fruit usually a 

 succulent, more rarely nearly dry, drupe, frequently depressed and 

 4-grooved, separating into 1-4 pyrenes or drupels. 



I. Corolla-tube under 2" long : 



A. Straggling subscandent shrubs with white flowers :— 



L. obovate rounded fleshy. Calyx ■l-*2" in flower . . 1. inerme. 

 L. ovate or rhomboid. Calj^x '3" in flower . . . .2. iMomidis. 



B. Compact or rigid shrubs or undershrubs : — 



1. Panicle large spreading, usually' red in fruit. Leaves 



broadly ovate, usually cordate. Calyx deeply lobed : — 



Corolla white with pink, L. 4-8" 3. infortunatiim. 



Corolla scarlet. L. 6-12" 4. squamafum. 



2. Panicle narrow. Leaves narrow. Calyx very shallowly 



lobed, Fls. usually blue 5. serratatn. 



II, Corolla-tube 3" and over : — 



L. narrow, usually whorled. Fls. white . , . . .6. siphonanthus. 



Besides the above there are several species of Clerodendron commonly grown 

 in gardens. One of these, C. Ihoixsoni, is a climber Avith pure white calyx and 

 crimson corolla, 



1. C. inerme, Gaertn. 



A straggling shrub, Avith a very strong rutaceous odour from the 

 numerous glands, with grey very lenticellate, patent, minutely closely 

 pubescent twigs. Leaves •75-l"5" elliptic or obovate with rounded 

 or retuse tip and cvineate base, glabrous, closely punctulate with 

 glands beneath. Flowers white with bright red filaments, mostly in 

 axillaiy 3-flowered cymes from the uppermost leaves. Corolla-tube 

 slender 1" long. Drupe pyriform -5" by "4", somewhat 4-grooved, base 

 embraced by the accrescent calyx. 



Near the sea, from Balasore ! to Puri ! Fl. April and Dec. (perhaps Dec- 

 April). Fr. Dec. and old fruits found in April, mostly insect-punctured and 

 oblique. Evergreen. 



Leaves somewhat fleshy, young minutely pubescent. Petiole •15-"2". Peduncles 

 •5-'75", sometimes up to 7-fld. Calyx •l-"2" in flower with 5 short equal triangular 

 teeth, enlarging to 25" or "6" in fruit with a thickened pedicel. Cor.-lobes '25" 

 oblong. Drupe ultimately hard and splitting into 3-4 ijyreues. 



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