VERBENACEAE. — CLERODENDRON 375 



CLERODENDRON L. 



Clerodendron foetidum Bunge in Mem. Sav. £tr. Acad. Sci. St. Pe- 

 tersbourg, II. 126 {Enum. PI. Chin. Bor. 52) (non D. Don) (1833).— 

 Schauer in De Candolle, Prodr. XI. 672 (1847). — Hooker in Bot. 

 Mag. LXXXI. t. 4880 (1855). — Maximowicz in Bidl. Acad. Sci. 

 St. Petersbourg, XXXI. 84 (1886); in Mel. Biol. XII. 518 (1886).— 

 Hemsley in Jour. Linn. Soc. XXVI. 259 (1890). — Diels in Bot. Jahrb. 

 XXIX. 549 (1900); in Not. Bot. Card. Edinburgh, VII. 29, 72, 184 

 (PI. Chin. Forrest.) (1912). — Schneider, III. Handb. Laubholzk. II. 

 595, fig. 384 h-i, 386 g-i (1911). 



Clerodendron Bungei Steudel, Nomencl. Bot. ed. 2, I. 382 (1840). — Planchon 

 in Fl. des Serres, IX. 17, t. 863-64 (1853). 



Western Hupeh: Patung Hsien, glens at low altitudes, alt. 300 

 m., June and August 1907 (No. 2224; sub-shrub 1 m., flowers pink); 

 without precise locality, A. Henry (Nos. 262, 2307). Yunnan: near 

 Tengyueh, woods, alt. 1800 m., October 1914, C. Schneider No. 2573; 

 bush 0.5-1.5 m.); near Yangpi (Tali Fu), in hedges, alt. 2300 m., 

 October 1914, C. Schneider (No. 3272). 



Clerodendron mandarinorum Diels in Bot. Jahrb. XXIX. 549 

 (1900). 



Western Hupeh : Hsing-shan Hsien, cliffs, alt. 600-1000 m., 

 July and October 1907 (No. 425; small tree 5-7 m. tall, flowers white, 

 fruits blue-black). Yunnan: Mengtze, mountains to southeast, 

 alt. 1500 m., A. Henry (Nos. 9026, 9026*; flowers white). 



The inflorescence of Wilson's specimens is from 8 to 12 cm. high, and from 10 to 

 20 cm. broad, while Diels gives 25 by 30 cm.; it is distinctly cymose with from 4 to 

 6 subumbellate primary branches, the lowest pair more strongly developed than 

 the others. The fruit, which is not described by Diels, is bluish black, from 8 to 10 

 mm. high, and according to the number of seeds it contains ovoid to subglobose and 

 slightly 2-4-lobcd; at the base it is surrounded by the enlarged, irregularly split 

 and finally reflexed calyx; seeds 1-4, light grayish-brown, oblong-ovoid, about 8 

 mm. long and 5 mm. broad, plain on the ventral sides and with a deep curved furrow 

 on one side, strongly reticulate on the dorsal side. Henry's No. 9026" differs in the 

 more densely tomentose undersurface of the leaves and in the densely tomentose 

 inflorescence and calyx. Young plants raised from seeds of Wilson's No. 425 and 

 growing in the Arnold Arboretum have the leaves coarsely crenate-dentate. 



Clerodendron trichotomum Thunberg, Fl. Jap. 256 (1784). — 

 Schauer in De Candolle, Prodr. XL 668 (1847). — Debeaux in Act. 

 Soc. Linn. Bordeaux, XXX. 100 (Fl. Shanghai, 48) (1875). — Hooker 

 f. in Bot. Mag. CVII. t. 6561 (1881). — Maximowicz in Bull. Acad. 



