594 cxi. VERBENACE^!. (C. B. Clarke.) [Clerodendron. 



Leaves 6-15 in. diam., teeth usually scarcely | in. deep ; petiole 2-4 in. Panicle 

 often 18 by 12 in., open, red ; bracts small. Corolla nearly glabrous, scarlet ; tube 

 f-1 in., filiform ; lobes J in. Drupe ^- in. diam., blue-black ; fruiting calyx enlarged, 

 patent 1 in. diam. 



VAE. urticifolia ; teeth of the leaves i-J in. deep patent all round the leaves. V. 

 urticifolia, Wall. Cat. 1801 ; Schauer I. c. Volkameria urticifolia, Roxb. Fl. 2nd. iii. 

 61. Assam, E. Bengal, Pegu ; Wallich, &c. Distrib. Ava. 



Panicles terminal, capitate of corymbose; leaves beneath not or 

 very obscurely glandular. 



17. C. lasiocephalum, Clarke; leaves ovate acuminate dentate 

 pubescent, panicle subcapitate, calyx- segments in. linear- subulate. 



MISHMEE ; Griffith (Kew Distrib. n. 6055). 



Branches pubescent upwards. Leaves opposite, 10 by ^ in., base cuneate or 

 rounded, membranous, sparsely pubescent on both surfaces ; petiole 2 in. Panicle 

 sessile, 2-3 in. diam., dense, depressed-globose, pubescent ; bracts linear. Calyx 

 divided, nearly to the base ; segments flaccid caudate, pubescent. Corolla not seen. 

 Drupe g in. diam., red. 



18. C. Colebrookianum, Walp. Rep. iv. 114; leaves shallowly cor- 

 date ovate acute entire mature subglabrate, panicle large spreading, flowers 

 clustered, calyx - in. Schauer in DC. Prodr. xi. 672 ; Gamble Indian 

 Timbers, 299. C. glandulosum, Wall. Cat. 1806 ; Lindl. in Sot. Reg. 1844, 



19, in note ; Schauer I. c. 



ASSAM, and KHASIA MTS., alt. 1-4000 ft., frequent; H.f.#T.,&c. 

 MOULMEIN ; Parish. PROME HILLS ; Col.. Benson. SINGAPORE ; Lobb. 



A shrub, 4-8 ft. Leaves ofteu 9 in. diam., young puberulous, beneath eglandular 

 or with a few scattered large glands especially near the apex of the petiole ; petiole 

 2-8 in. Panicles 12 ft. diam., straggling, pubescent ; flowers very numerous in 

 clusters ; bracts lanceolate, caducous at flower-time. Calyx pubescent, often bearing 

 a few large glands, divided hardly half-way down ; teeth triangular or lanceolate. 

 Corolla nearly glabrous, from rose-purple to white ; tube 1 in. ; lobes \ in., elliptic. 

 Drupe \ in. diam., blue, pyrenes usually 4; calyx in fruit \-% in. diam. C. glandu- 

 losum, Wall., is a specimen from the Gale. Bot. Garden, with the leaves rather more 

 pubescent, and the bracts persistent. 



VAB. denticulate; leaves irregularly sinuate denticulate. Jaintea Hills; Jowye, 

 Clarice. 



19, C. infprtunatum, Gaertn. Fruct. i. 271, t. 57, fig. 1 ; leaves ovate 

 acuminate entire or serrulate mature hairy, panicle open villous, corolla-tube 

 exceeding the eglandular calyx-lobes in. Lamk. III. t. 544 ; Wall. Cat. 

 1796; Schauer in DC. Prodr. xi. 667; Dalz. Sf Gibs. Bomb. Fl.200; Wight 

 Ic. 1. 1471 ; Bedd. For. Man. 173, and Anal. PL xxii. fig. 1 ; Brand,\For. FL 

 363; Kurz For. FL ii. 267. C. viscosum, Vent. Jard. Malm. t. 25; Bot. 

 Mag. t. 1805 ; Bot. Beg. t. 629. C. cordatum, Don Prodr. 103 ; Schauer 

 I.e. 674. C. castaneaefolium, Klotzsch in Reis. Pr. Wald. Bot. 102, t. 65. 

 C. calycinum, Turcz. in Bull. Soc. Imp. Nat. Mosc. 1863, ii. 222. Yolka- 

 meria infortunata, Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 59. Clerodendron, Linn. FL Zeyl. 

 232 ; Burnt. Thes. Zeyl. 66 ; Humph. Herb. Amb. iv. t. 49 ; Rheede Hort 

 Mai. ii. t. 25. 



Throughout INDIA, from Gurwhal and Assam to CEYLON and Singapore, in the 

 warm region ; very common. DISTEIB. Malaya. 



A shrub, 4 ft., often gregarious, yellow- or white-villous upwards, sometimes a small 

 tree according to a note in Herb. Wallich. Leaves 4-8 in., base cordate or obtuse, 

 varying from round-ovate to broad- oblong, in the Dec-can examples usually entire, in 



