Clerodendron.] ci. VERBENACEiE (baker). 313 



67. C. aurantiacum. Baker. An erect perennial herb, with finely 

 pubescent stems. Leaves opposite, small, sessile, lanceolate, pubescent 

 on both sides, inciso-crenate at the middle, cuneate and entire at the 

 base. Cymes many-flowered, crowded, sessile, forming a long terminal 

 panicle. Calyx pubescent, J in. long; tube cam pa nu late ; lobes orbi- 

 cular, obtuse, about as long as the tube. Corolla light orange ; tube 

 very "short. 



Mozamb. Dlst. British Central Africa : Nyasaland ; Manganja Hill.-, i/eZ/tr .' 



68. C. macro stachyum. Baker in Keiv Bulletin, 18!)8, 159. An 

 undershrub, with stout erect woody glabrous stems. Leaves sessile, 

 oblanceolate-oblong, the lower 8-4 in. long, obtuse, crenate in the upper 

 half, narrowed gradually from the middle to the bate, dark green, slightly 

 pubescent, especially beneath. Cymes dense, many -flowered, sessile or 

 the lower shortly peduncled, forming a lax panicle 6-H in. long ; bracts 

 linear or lanceolate, foliaceous. Calyx pubescent ; tube campanulate, 

 ^- in. long ; lobes ovate or oblong, unequal, finally \ in. long. Corolla 

 and stamens not seen. 



XMEozamb. I>lst. British Central Africa : Nyasaland ; Mount Zomba, 2500- 

 3500 tt., Whytel 



69. C. spinescens, Gilrke i71E71gl.Jahrb.xvm. 180. A shrub 

 with densely pubescent woody branchlets, often armed with small hooked 

 or large straight spines at the nodes. Leaves opposite, suborbicular, 

 shortly petioled, entire, pubescent, at most 1 in. long. Cymes axillary, 

 usually reduced to a single flower ; peduncle very pubescent. Calyx 

 densely hairy, J in. long ; tube campanulate ; teeth ovate, acute, rather 

 shorter than the tube. Corolla tube twice as long as the calyx ; upper 

 segments oblong, ^ in. long ; lower obovate-cuneate, j in. long. 

 Stamens 1 in. long. — Cyclonema spinescens, Oliv. in Journ. Linn. Soc. 

 XV. 96 and in Hook. Ic. PI. t. 1221. Kalaharia spinipes, Baill. Hist. 

 Plant, xi. 111. K. spinescens, Giirke in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 340; 

 Henriques in Bolet. Soc. Brot. xvi. 69. 



Jto-wer Guinea. Lower Congo : Stanley Pool, liens, 57 ! Angola, Huilla to 

 Humpata, Johnston ! between the rivers Quihumbo and Lukembe, Marques, 342. 



Soutb Central. Congo Free State : Upper Congo ; Katanga, Cornet, Lualaba 

 River, Bescamps j Lunda ; at Kimbundn, on the River Lovo, Foyge, 547. 



XVXozamb. Bist. German East Africa : Unyamwezi ; Lake Shai, on the Upper 

 Wala River, Stuhlmann, 438 ; Gondo, £ohm <^ Heichardt, 161 ; Lake Tans:an>ika, 

 Cameron! British Central Africa; Urnngii ; Fwauibo, Carson, 32! Kambole, 

 5000 ft., Nutt ! Nyasaland ; Maravi country, in Upper Shire, Kirk ! Nganiihind ; 

 between Kobis and North Shaw Valley, Baines ! Dainaralaiid and Naniaqualand, 

 Fleck, 230, Nets, 30, and Schinz, 456 (ex Giirke). 



Imperfectly k7iow7i species. 



70. C. triflorum. Vis. ; Schauer in DC. Prod. xi. 672. Bninches 

 subtetragonous, canescent. Leaves long-petioled, broadly ovate, .strongly 

 toothed at the middle, with the ribs of the underside raised. Peduncles 

 axillary. Cymes drooping, about 3-flowered ; lateral pedicels bracteolate. 



