1252 CONTRIBUTIONS FROM THE NATIONAL HERBARIUM, 



DOUBTFUL SPECIES. 



CoENUTiA LONGiFOLiA (H. B. K.) Spreiig. Syst. Veg. 1: 39. 1825. Hosta 

 longifoUa H. B. K. Nov, Gen. & Sp. 2: 247. 1817. The type locality is given 

 doubtfully as Mexico. The corolla is described as glabrous. 



11. CLERODElSrDIlUM L. Sp. PL 637. 1753. 



Trees or shrubs, sometimes scandent; leaves opposite or ternate, entire or 

 dentate ; flowers large or small, in axillary or terminal cymes ; calyx campanu- 

 late, truncate or 5-dentate; corolla tube straight or curved, the limb spreading, 

 4 or 5-lobate ; stamens 4 ; fruit a globose or 4-lobate di-upe, containing 4 nutlets. 



Cymes axillary; leaves entire 1. C. ligustrinum. 



Cymes terminal ; leaves sinuate-dentate 2. C. fragrans. 



1, Clerodendrum ligustrinum (.Tacq.) R. Br.; Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 4: 64. 



1812. 



VoUcameria Ugitstrina Jacq. Coll. Bot. Suppl. 118. pi. 5, f. 1. 1796. 



Clerodendrum mexicanum T. S. Brandeg. Univ. Calif. Publ. Bot. 3: 391. 1909. 



Aegiphila paludosa T. S. Brandeg. Univ. Calif. Publ. Bot. 6: 191. 1915. 



Tamaulipas, Veracruz, Yucatan, Campeche, Tabasco, Puebla, and Oaxaca. 



Shrub, 1.5 to 3 meters high ; petiole bases indurate and persistent ; leaves 

 ovate to elliptic-oblong, 4 to 10 cm. long, acute or acuminate, abruptly sliort- 

 decurrent at base, glabrous or nearly so, punctate beneath ; cymes pedunculate, 

 few-flowered, sometimes longer than the leaves ; calyx 6 to 8 mm. long ; corolla 

 white, the tube slender, about 1 cm. long, longer than the lobes; fruit about 1 

 cm. in diameter. " Muste " (Tabasco). 



This has been reiwrted from Yucatan as C. aculeatnm (L.) Schlecht., but it 

 is quite distinct from that West Indian species. 



2. Clerodendrum. fragrans Vent. Jard. Malm. 2: pi. 70. 1804. 



Commonly cultivated in Mexico and sometimes naturalized; specimens seen 

 from Nuevo Leon, Veracruz, and Yucatan. Native of southeastern Asia ; cul- 

 tivated and naturalized in tropical America. 



I'lauts suffrutescent, 0.5 to 1.5 meters high ; leaves long-i-,etiolate, broadly 

 deltoid-ovate or rounded-ovate, 10 to 30 cm. long, usually truncate at base; 

 flowers in very dense terminal cymes, fragrant ; corolla white, about 2.5 cm. 

 long. " Bocamelia " (Oaxaca, El Salvador, Nicaragua); "metroceder" 

 (Oaxaca, Rcko) ; " jazmin de Amelia" (Guatemala); " camelia " (Panama); 

 " viuda alegre" (El Salvador). 



The form cultivated in tropical America has double flowers ; it is C. fragrans 

 pleniflora Schauer.^ 



12. PETITIA Jacq. Enum. PI. Carib. 1. 1760. 



1. Petitia oleina (Benth.) Benth. & Hook; Hemsl. Biol. Centr. Amer. Bot. 2: 

 539. 1882. 



Sclcroon oleinum Benth. in Edwards, Bot. Reg. 29: Misc. 65. 1843. 



Described from cultivated plants grown from Mexican seeds. 



Shrub ; leaves opposite, entire ; flowers greenish white, in few-flowerd axil- 

 lary cymes ; calyx campanulate, shortly 4-dentate ; corolla funnelform, the limb 

 4-lobate ; stamens 4 ; fruit a 4-celled drupe. 



Known to the writer only from the original description. 



'In DC. Prodr. 11: 666. 1847. 



