598 cxi. VERBENACE^B. (C. B. Clarke.) \Caryopteris. 



distinct, of ten 20-f)0-fld., pubescent or glabrate. Corolla pubescent, deep red. Drupe 

 pubescent ; calyx hardly accrescent. Otherwise much resembling C. grata: the whole 

 panicle usually 'is red ; but in C. grata it is often more or less red. 



XVII. QliOSSOCARYA, Wall. 



Grey-torn entose, scandeut shrubs. Leaves opposite, ovate, shortly 

 petioled, entire. Cymes many-fld., in a dense terminal corymbose panicle ; 

 flowers sessile ; bracts small. Calyx campauulate, 5-toothed, hardly accres- 

 cent. Corolla-tube narrow-cylindric ; limb 2-lipped, 5-lobed. Stamens 4, 

 didynamous ; anthers long-exserted, ovate ; cells parallel. Ovary imperfectly 

 4-celled, 4-ovuled ; style tiliform, 2-fid. Capsule oblong, somewhat widened 

 upwards, exserted, 4-valved ; valves narrowly obovoid, substipitate, margins 

 inflexed holding the seed, one produced downwards as a 1-sided wing. Seeds 

 narrowly oblong, erect. Species 3, an Australian and the following. 



1. Cr. Xiinnaei, Benth. in Gen. PZ. ii. 1158; leaves ovate or obovate 

 subcordate mature glabrescent, capsule grey strigose. Clerodendron Linnsei, 

 Thwaites Enum. 243. 



CEYLON, in hot dry places ; Walker, Thwaites. 



Scandent ; branches pubescent. Leaves 3| by \\ in., apiculate ; petiole \ in. 

 Corymbs 3 in. diam., grey-tomentose ; bracts \ in., elliptic, or some of the lower 

 foliaceous. Calyx ^ in., or in fruit in., limb shallowly roundly lobed. Corolla 

 strigose, white; tube i in., slender; lobes 4-4 in. filaments exserted 1 in. Capsule 

 Hi by fe in. 



2 . G-. mollis. Wall. Cat. 1741 ; leaves ovate mature softly pubescent 

 beneath, capsule patently grey-hairy. Griff, in Calc. Journ. Nat. Hist. iii. 

 366; Schauer in DC. Prodr. xi. 626; Kurz For. Fl. ii. 257. 



Griffith (Kew Distrib. n. 6017), Lobb. 

 Closely resembling G. Linncei, but generally more hairy ; branchlets and panicles- 

 densely softly grey-villous. Capsule rather longer, in. 



XVIII. HYIVIENOPYRA1VIIS, Wall. 



A large, rambling shrub ; branches grey-tomentose. Leaves opposite, 

 ovate, entire. Cymes lax, in large, pyramidal, axillary or terminal panicles; 

 flowers very small ; bracts minute. Calyx minute, 4-fid ; greatly accrescent 

 in fruit, membranous, 4-winged, utricular. Corolla-tube cylindric ; limb 

 oblique, 4-fid. Stamens 4 ; anthers exserted, ovate ; cells parallel. Ovary 

 2 -celled, 4-ovuled ; style filiform, shortly 2-fid. Capsule small, obovoid, 

 included, 4-valvular ; valves obovoid- oblong, margins inflexed holding the 

 seed. Seeds pendulous, subtriquetous. 



H. brachiata, Wall. Cat. 774; Griff, in Calc. Journ. Nat. Hist. iii. 

 365 ; Schauer in DC. Prodr. xi. 626 ; Bocq. Rev. Verben. 113, 1. 11, fig. 1-10 ; 

 Kurz For. Fl. ii. 258. 



Wallich. DISTEIB. Ava. In N. and Central India cultivated. 

 Leaves 3 by in., acuminate, base obtuse or rhomboid, mature glabrate above, 

 grey-tomentose or pubescent beneath ; petiole ^ in. Panicles 12 by 8 in., leafy below, 

 grey-tomentose. Calyx ^ in. Corolla | in., pubescent, white. Capsule |- in., ful- 

 vous-hirsute; utricle %-% in., ovoid, acutely 4-winged, mouth minute. 



