CLEBODENDEON.] VERBENACEM. 225 



9. CLERODENDRON, Linn.; Fl. Brit. Ind. iv, 589. 



Trees or shrubs, sometimes sarrnentose. Leaves opposite, rarely 

 3-4-nate, simple entire or lobed. Flowers in axillary cymes or 

 terminal panicles, often leafy below, bracts conspicuous or small. 

 Calyx campanulate ; limb truncate 5-toothed or almost 5-partite, 

 persistent, often accrescent, sometimes coloured. Corolla-tube slender, 

 usually long, limb more or less oblique ; lobes 5, spreading. Stamens 

 didynamous, much exserted ; anthers ovate or oblong, the cells 

 parallel. Ovary imperfectly 4-celled, with 1 ovule in each cell, style 

 filiform, stigma shortly bind. Fruit a globose usually succulent 

 drupe, 4-grooved and separating into 4 pyrenes of which, 1-3 are 

 sometimes suppressed. Species about 100, chiefly in the warm regions 

 of the Old World, a few in Trop. America. 



Corolla irregularly salver-shaped, f in. long or less : 

 Calyx not or only slightly enlarged in fruit : 

 Calyx-lobes long, ovate-acuminate; leaves 

 opposite, less than 3 in. long . . . 1. C. Phlomidis. 



Calyx-lobes very short, broadly triangular ; 

 leaves often in whorls of 3, reaching more 

 than 6 in. long 2. C. serratum. 



Calyx much enlarged in fruit and turning 



red . . 3. C. infortunatum. 



Oorolla narrowly funnel-shaped, 3-4 in. long or 



longer . . . . . . . . 4. C. Siphonanthus. 



1. C. Phlomidis, Linn. /. Suppl. 292; Cooke FL Bomb, ii, 431. C. 

 phlomoides, Linn.}.; Roxb. Fl.Ind.iii, 57 ; Roylelll. 299; Brandis For. 

 Fl. 363 ; Ind. Trees 507 ; F. B. I. iv, 590 : Watt E. D. ; Gamble Man. Ind. 

 Timb. 543; Prain Beng. PI. 835. Vern. Urui. 



A large shrub, or small tree, up to 30 ft. high ; young parts pubescent. 

 Leaves l|-2^ in. long, ovate or subhomboid, obtuse or acute, coarsely 

 crenate-dentate or entire, undulate, glabrous above, more or less 

 puberulous beneath, base truncate or subcordate, petioles i-f in., 

 pubescent. Flowers medium-sized, in small 2-chotomous axillary cymes 

 forming a rounded terminal panicle ; pedicels slender ; bracts leaf -like, 

 obovate or lanceolate, acute, Calyx about f in. long., divided about - 

 way down, glabrous or puberulous, slightly enlarged in fruit ; lobes 

 ovate, acutely acuminate, veined. Corolla white or pink ; tube in. 

 long., sparingly pubescent outside ; lobes under in. long, elliptic, 

 obtuse, veined. Drupe % in. long,, broadly obovoid, black when ripe. 



Common in the drier parts of the area, and often found in hedges, also in 

 the Sub-Himalayan tracts of Eohilkhand and N. Oudh. Flowers during 



