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tive enlarged behind. Style slender, as long as the longer pair of 

 stamens ; stigma 2-lobed, lobes unequal. Dnipe globose, yellow when 

 ripe, fleshy, -75 in. in diam. ; pyrene pyriform, -5 in. long, with a cavity 

 opening on one side at the base ; endocarp very hard, thick. Seeds 

 usually 1 to 2 only fertile, compressed, acute at the ends ; cotyledons 

 fleshy, obcordate, -25 in. long ; radicle very small. Jack in Mai. Misc. I. 

 17, and in Hook. Bot. Misc. I. 284; Wall. Cat. 1816 ; Schauer in DC. 

 Prodr. XI. 679 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. II. 867 ; Clarke in Hook. f. M. Br. 

 Ind. IV. 582 ; Koord. & Val. Bijdr. VII. 198. G. asiatica, Wall. Cat. 

 1818 [in part) ; Kurz For. Fl. II. 265 [not of Linn.). Gmelina, sp. n. 2, 

 Griff. Notul. IV. 179. " Badix deipara," Eumph. Herb. Amb. II. 124, 

 t. 39. 



Kbdah: Langkawi Island, Cwr^^s. Penang: WalUchl816; PhilUpis ; 

 G. King ; Curtis 454. Perak : Wray 734 ; Scortechini 740. Malacca : 

 Griffith 6057 ; Maingay (K.D.) 1189. Singapore: G. Thomson; Kurz; 

 T. Anderson; Deschamps; Kunstler 103. — -Distrib. Burma {Kurz), 

 Nicobars (Kurz), Siam, Java, Sumatra {Forbes 1576, 2642). 



9. Clerodendron, Linn. 

 Trees or shrubs, sometimes straggling or climbing. Leaves opposite 

 or rarely verticiUate, simple,- entire or dentate or angularly-lobed. 

 Flowers small or large, of various colours, in axillary cymes or termi- 

 nal panicles, often leafy below ; bracts conspicuous or small ; bracteoles 

 or very small. Calyx campanulate, rarely tubular, truncate, 5-toothed 

 or almost 5-partite, persistent, often accrescent, often coloured in fruit. 

 Corolla hypocrateriform or infundibular ; tube usually long, slender ; 

 limb usually oblique, more or less 2-lipped, 5-lobed, the lobes spreading. 

 Stamens 4 didynamous, long-exserted ; filaments filiform, involute in 

 the bud ; anthers ovate or oblong, more or less uniform ; cells parallel, 

 adherent above, separate below; filaments attached at the notch. 

 Ovary imperfectly 4-celled, the cells 1-ovuled ; style filiform ; stigma 

 shortly bifid. Fruit a globose, succulent or rarely dry drupe, 4-grooved 

 or 4-lobed, separating into 4 pyrenes, of which 1 to 3 are sometimes 

 suppressed ; exocarp usually fleshy ; endocarp bony or crustaceous. 

 Seeds oblong or pyriform ; albumen ; cotyledons thick, fleshy ; radicle 

 very small, inferior. — Distrib. 100 to 120 species, in the warm regions 

 of both hemispheres, but chiefly in the eastern. 



Corolla hypocrateriform, the tube rarely more than 1 in. in 



length (Subgenus 1. Euclerodendhon) : — 

 Cymes axillary : — 



Cymes few-flowered from most axils; leaves small; calyx- 

 teeth very short . . . . . . . . 1. C. neriifolium. 



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