592 cxi. VERBENACE^. (C. B. Clarke.) [Clerodendron. 



Clerodendron. The Moulmein material has smaller, less toothed, leaves, and has more 

 pubescence and glands than the Chela plants. 



*** Panicles terminal, elongate, conspicuously bracteate ; calyx sub- 

 truncate. 



11. C. serratum, Spreng. Syst. ii. 758; shrubby, leaves subsessile 

 oblong or elliptic acuminate serrate, pedicels densely pubescent. Don Prodr. 

 108; TTfctt. Cat. 1809; Ham. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xvii. 187; Schauer in 

 DC. Prodr. xi. 664; Dalz. fy Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 200; Wight Ic. t. 1472; 

 Brand. For. Fl. 364 ; Kurz For. Fl. ii. 267. C. ternifolium, Don Prodr. 

 103. C. macrophyllum, Bot. Mag. t. 2536 ; Reich. FL Exot. t. 209 ; Schauer 

 1. c. 674. C. ornatum, Wall. Cat. 1811 ; Schauer 1. c. 675. C. herbaceum, 

 Wall. Cat. 1815; Schauer I. c. 675. C. cuneatum, Turcz.in Bull. Soc. Imp. 

 Nat. Mosc. 1863, ii. 221. Volkameria serrata, Linn. Mant. 90 ; Roxb. Fl. 

 Ind. iii. 62. V. herbacea, Roxb. Hort. Beng. 46. 



From the HIMALAYA, east of the Sutlej, to CEYLON and TENASSEBIM, alt. 0-4000 

 ft., frequent ; very common in Bengal. 



Stems usually 2-8 ft., simple, hardly woody, being burnt annually in the jangle 

 fires ; when more than a year old becoming branched, more or less hairy or glabrate. 

 Leaves usually some of them ternate, commonly 6 by 2 in., narrowly obovate-oblong 

 or subelliptic, base cuneate, mature glabrate puberulous pubescent or (in some S. 

 Indian examples) closely villous on the lamina beneath ; petiole 0-f in. Panicle 6 

 by 1 in., sublinear, or 10 by 5 in. subpyraraidal, pubescent often villous, branches 

 and pedicels patently shortly hairy ; bracts |-1| in., from obovate to lanceolate, 

 pubescent, subpersistent, often coloured ; pedicels 0- in. Calyx ^ in., cup-shaped, 

 pubescent or puberulous, limb very shortly 5-lobed, slightly enlarged in fruit. CoroUz 

 nearly glabrous without, hairy at the base of the stamens, from p Tplish-blue and 

 white to nearly white ; tube ^~| in., narrow-cylindric ; mouth oblique, 2-lipped ; 

 lobes g-| in., oblong or elliptic. Drupe % by -J in., succulent, purple-black, 4-1-pyrened. 

 ^In the form C. herbaceum, Wall., the panicle is cylindric dense subspicate ; in C. 

 ^gkitum, Wall, (only seen from Pegu), the panicle is diffuse, slender, ^nusually 

 glabrous. 



VAR. Wallichii ; leaves large often shortly petioled, panicle large pyramidal open 

 pubescent, bracteoles prominent lanceolate, calyx truncate or very nearly so. C. 

 farinosum, Wall. Cat. 1810 (not Volkameria farinosa, Roxb.}. C. divaricatum, Jack in 

 Mai. Mine. i. 2, and in Hook. Sot. Misc. ii. 89 ; Schauer I. c. 674. C. javanicum, 

 Walp. Sep. iv. 113. Eastern India ; from Sikkim and Assam to Malacca, common. 

 Distrib. Sumatra, Java, Cambodia. The upper leaves (at least) in some examples of 

 this are quite entire. 



^12. C. venosum, Wall. Cat. 1807; arboreous, leaves opposite petioled 

 elliptic acuminate glabrescent, panicle often farinose-tomentose. Volkameria 

 farinosa, Roxb. Hort. Beng. 46, and Fl. Ind. iii. 64, not C. farinosum, Wall. 

 Volkameriae sp., Oriff. Itin. Notes, 70, n. 1082. Clerodendron n. 30, Herb. 

 Ind, Or. H.f. Sf T. 



KHASIA MTS., alt. 4000 ft. ; Mamloo, Griffith (Kew Distrib. n. 6052) ; Cherra, 

 H.f.$T.,&c. 



A tree (Roxburgh), 40 ft., with well-marked trunk (Clarke). Leaves (none ter- 

 nate) 7 by 3 in., base attenuate; petiole ^-l in. (or uppermost leaves sessile). 

 Panicle 8 by 5 in., brachiate, branches divaricate; rachis acutely quadrangular; 

 bracts 1-2 in., ovate, acuminate, leaf-like ; bracteoles in., linear-oblong, persistent, 

 farinose-toraentose without spreading hairs ; pedicels secund. Calyx ^ in., truncate, 

 glabrescent. Corolla nearly as of C. serrata, but with a greenish-white tinge. Drupe 

 nearly as of C. serrata. 



* Panicles peduncled, of 1 or more heads, axillary or sometimes 

 pseudo-terminal. 



