Caryopteris.] cxi. VERBENACE^E. (C. B. Clarke.) 597 



XVI. CARVOPTERIS, Bunge. 



Shrubs, erect or rambling. Leaves opposite, acuminate, toothed or sub- 

 entire, minutely punctate with yellow glistening glands. Cymes small, 

 dense, many-fid., axillary or running into a terminal thyrse; bracts small. 

 Calyx deeply 5-fid ; segments triangular or lanceolate, somewhat accrescent. 

 Corolla-tu^e short, cylindric ; limb spreading, middle lobe of the lower lip 

 larger, crisped or (in the typical non-Indian species) fimbriate. Stamens 4, 

 didynamous ; anthers exserted, cells divaricate (in the Indian species), con- 

 fluent. Ovary imperfectly 4-celled, 4-ovuled ; style filiform, shortly 2-fid. 

 Capsule small, globose, dividing into 4 concave valves with incurved margins 

 holding the seeds. Seeds oblong, erect. Species 5, two JST.E. Asiatic and 

 the following. 



Though the genus is near Clerodendron, two of the Indian species are easily dis- 

 tinguished by their very short corolla : the third, C. Wallichiana, has the corolla-tube 

 scarcely \ in. The capsule is hardly less succulent than in several species of Cleroden- 

 dron, nor is the incurving of the edges of the valves different from what occurs in 

 that genus. 



1. C. Wallichiana, Sckauer in DC. Prodr. xi. 625; leaves elliptic 

 acuminate, cymes collected mostly in terminal thyrses, corolla ^ in., calyx- 

 segments in fruit lanceolate erect 1-3-ribbed. Brand. For. Fl. 370. Volka- 

 meria odorata, Roxb. Hart. Benq. 46. Clerodendron odoratum, Don Prodr. 

 102 ; Wall. Cat. 1812. Volkamerias sp., Griff. Itin. Notes, 128, n. 504. 



SUBTROPICAL HIMALAYA, alt. 0-4500 ft., from the Punjab to Bhotan; frequent. 



A spreading shrub, 4-12 ft. ; shoots ashy-pubescent or subtomentose. Leaves 4 by 

 1| in., base cuneate, toothed or nearly entire, ashy-pubescent or puberulous; petiole 

 in. Ciimes mostly in terminal thyrses 3-5 by 1 in., ashy-pubescent, glandular. 

 Calyx ^ in., in fruit | in. Corolla-tube | in., pubescent, glandular ; middle lobe of 

 lower lip nearly | in. blue, 4 other lobes about i in., white. Capsule - ^ in. diam., 

 globose, closely pubescent. 



2. C. grata, Benth. in Gen. PI. ii. 1158; leaves elliptic acuminate 

 pubescent, cymes mostly axillary small corymbose, corolla 3 in., calyx- 

 segments in fruit subpatent triangular. Clerodendron gratum, Wall. Cat. 

 1813 ; Schauer in DC. Prodr. xi. 674, not of Kurz. C. fcetidum, Don Prodr. 

 103; Schauer I. c. 672, not of Bunge. Yitex sex-dentata, Wall. Cat. 1759; 

 Schauer I. c. 696. 



KUMAON ; below Nynee Tal, alt. 4000 ft., Thomson, Strachey ty Winterlottom. 

 NEPAL; Wallich. 



A rambling shrub ; branches pubescent or tomentose. Leaves 4% by 1| in. (mostly 

 smaller), base rhomboid or almost rounded, toothed or subentire, mature softly pubes- 

 cent or almost villous beneath ; petiole J in. Cymes ^-f in., densely pubescent, 3-8- 

 flil., dichotomous, without a common rachis. Calyx ^ in., densely pubescent, in 

 fruit - in., membranous, not ribbed. Corolla pubescent, glandular. Capsule in. 

 diam., globose, nearly glabrous, somewhat ribbed. 



3. C. paniculata, Clarke ; leaves elliptic acuminate mature glabrate, 

 panicles axillary small dense many-fid., corolla in., calyx- segments in fruit 

 small lanceolate. Clerodendron gratum, Kurz For. Fl. ii. 268, not of Wall. 

 Callicarpa n. 9, Herb. Ind. Or. H.f. Sf T. 



SUBTROPICAL HIMALAYA, alt. 1-4000 ft., frequent; from E. Nepal, J. D. JET., to 

 Mishmee, Griffith (Kew Distrib. n. 6044). DISTEIB. Ava. 



A spreading shrub; branches terete, slender, pubescent. Leaves mostly obtuse 01 

 rounded at the base. Panicles axillary, subsessile, ^-2J in., distinctly pauicled, rachis 



