Clerodendron.'] ci. VERBENACEiE (baker). 301 



panicle ; pedicels pubescent, longer than the calyx. Calyx \ in. long ; 

 lobes ovate or ovate- lanceolate, rather shorter than the tube. Corolla 

 bright red, passing into bright yellow : tube |-1 in. long ; lobes obovate, 

 subequal, ^-J in. long. Stamens 1 in. long. — Benth.'in Hook. Niger 

 Fl. 486 ; Durand k De Wild, in Bull. Soc. Bot. Belg. xxxvii. 125. 

 C. aurantiuTYh^ G. Don ; Sehauer in DC. Prod. xi. 073. 



Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone, Barter ! Oldjield ! Don ! Lagos : Yero, Millen, 

 9! Abeokuta, Rowland! and without precise locality, Moloney^ 14! Lower Niger ; 

 Onitsa, Barter! Old Calabar, Thomson, 1\ Canierooiis : Bipinde, Zenker, IU48 ! 

 Yaunde, Zenker Sf Staudt, 115 ! River Cameroon, Mann, 732 ! 



Iiower Guinea. Gaboon: River Gaboon, Mann! Munda, at Sihange Farm, 

 Soyaux, 12! Congo, Smith! Burton! Bingila and Ki-binga, Dupuis. Loaugo, 

 Soyaux, 7b ! Angola, Welwitsch, 5646 ! 5664 ! 5740 ! Malange, Marques, 5 ! 



C. speciosum (Rev. Hort. 1873, 471, with coloured tigure), and Garden, xi. (1877) 

 404, pi. 74, said to be a hybrid, recedes very little tVoni typical C. splendens, but tlie 

 plant figured as C. speciosum hybridum in 111, Hort. 1869, t. 593, comes midway 

 between C. splendens and C. ThomsoncB. 



23. C. Buchholzii, Gilrke in Engl. Jahrb. xviii. 176. A climbing 

 shrub, glabrous in all its parts. Leaves distinctly petioled, oblong, 

 rounded at the base, 4-7 in. long by half as broad, acuminate, entire, 

 green and glabrous on both sides. Cymes forming axillary panicles ; 

 pedicels long; bracts minute, filiform. Calyx glabrous, J in. long; 

 tube between cylindrical and funnel-shaped ; teeth small, deltoid. 

 Corolla white, glabrous ; tube |-| in. long ; lobes obovate, \ in. long. 

 Stam.ens twice as long as the lobes. 



Upper Guinea. Cameroons: Victoria, ^mcAAoZz, between Barombi and Kumba, 

 Preuss, 404! and on the north bank of Elephant Lake, Preuss, 497! Gaboon : Come 

 River, Bates, 473 ! 



iMO-wer Guinea. Angola : Pungo Andongo, Mechoiv, 86. 



This may be identical with C. Manetti, Vis. 111. Piante Orto Padova, iii. (1856) 

 20, t. 3, a garden plant of uncertain origin. 



24. C. hamierianum, Schiueinf. Beitr. Fl.Aethiop. 119. Branchlets 

 herbaceous, tetragonous. Leaves 2-3-nate, petioled, membranous, oblong 

 or obloiig-lanceolate, narrowed to the base and acute apex, about 2 in. long 

 by 1 in. broad, pubescent on both surfaces. Cymes lax, forming a ter- 

 minal panicle ; pedicels slender, pubescent. Calyx glabrate, J in. long ; 

 tube campanulate ; lobes ovate-lanceolate, very acute, as long as the 

 tube. Corolla pubescent, purple, 2-3 times as long as the calyx. 



irile Xiand. Sennar: near Roseres, Cienkowsky. ^Vhite Nile, Harnier. 



25. C congense, Engl, in Engl. Jahrb. viii. 65. Branchlets angular. 

 Leaves shortly petioled, glabrous above, hairy on the ribs and glandular 

 beneath, the lower oblong, 4 in. long, 3 in. broad, with a rounded ba^^e, 

 the upper cordate-ovate. Inflorescence corymbose ; branchlets hairy ; 

 bracts deciduous, linear or linear-lanceolate. Calyx \ in. long ; teeth 

 deltoid, as long as the campanulate tube. Corolla-tube above A in. 



