62 XCII. VERBENACEZ. [ Clerodendron. 
acuminate, entire, mostly 2 to 3 in. long. jegu me E ND often 
nearly as lon ng as the leaves, bearing usuall me cyme 
or even more pedicellate fowers. Bracts e Calyx penis 
crustaceous endocarp. - Seeds ith: thick cotyledons and a very hon 
radicle. —Schau. in DC. Prod. xi. 660. 
Australia. Islands of the Gulf of Carpentaria, = Brown; Albert river, F. 
Mutiier; Port mete Armstrong; Adams Day, 
ueensland. Bay of Inlets and Terek river, Parks and Solander ; ia a 
along the coast from Cape York totes n on, A. Cunningham, M‘ Gillivr 
Mueller, Dallachy, and many othe 
N. S. Wales. Richmond river, ai MESE 
um, F. Muell. A tall shrub or small tree, a 
bare of foliage, the young cows! af mo Aa and inflorescence more 
minate, rounded or gwyn gardat at the base, 4 to 8 in . lo ong or more, 
on petioles of 1 to 4 Hlowers i in terminal trichotomous cymes, very 
dense at the time of foire 3 to 4 in. diameter when in fruit. Bracts 
ko de small and deciduous. Calyx shortly mart eh sioi outside 
glabrous inside, turbinate-campanulate and about ines long at the 
time of flowering, divided to near the middle into acute lobes enlarged 
and coloured after flowering, in some specimens with the fruit a appa- 
rently ripe broadly campanulate and about 4 lines diameter, in others 
still more enlarged and opening almost flat to about 5 lines diameter. 
Corolla-tube above 3 lines long, slender and the 5 lobes of the limb | 
nearly equal and spreading as in the rest of the genus. Stamens rather 
longer than the corolla-lobes. st ath succulent, 3 to 4 lines diameter, 
enclosing 4 distinct l-seeded pyren — Premna Trac; yana or Vites 
cyana Muell. Fragm. v. 61. 
Queen Rockingham "en Dallachy. Although the flowers are small, their 
Structure us "that of the fruit appears to me to be entirely those of Clero den dron, and 
not at all those of Premna o E inem 
4. C. tomentosum, R. Br. Prod. 510. A tall shrub or small tree, . 
the foliage and inflorescence usually velvety-pubescent, the older leaves ' 
rarely quite glabrous. Leaves on rather fs: petioles, ovate elliptical 
or almost lanceolate, shortly acuminate, acute or rarely rounded at the 
base, 2 to 4 in. long. Flowers in the normal state n numerous in com- 
pact bearing small cymes | 
in the upper axils. Calyx campanulate, softl ly ieie, about 3 lines : 
obtuse lobes. Corolla-tube under 1 in. long, the lobes 3 to 4 lines. 
Stamens protruding by from } to lin. Fruiting calyx Ola : 
i diameter, the drupe black and shining.—Andr. Bo 5 
ot. Mag. t. 1518; Schau. in DC. Prod. xi. 662. 
