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C. CALAMiTOsuM, Linn. Mant. 90 (1767). A slender white-flowered 

 shrub, native of Java and often found in gardens. In the Fl. Br. Ind. 

 it has been described as a Malacca species on the authority of Main- 

 gay's specimen, but Mr. Eidley informs us that in his opinion the 

 plant is not indigenous and that Maingay's specimen came, in all 

 probability, from a garden escape. 



C. Thomsons, Balf. f. in. Trans. Bot. Soc. Edinb. VII. 265, t. 7, and 

 580, t. 16 (1863). A climbing shrub, native of Tropical Africa, with 

 opposite ovate leaves and terminal lax cymes of flowers with a white calyx 

 and crimson corolla. — Penang : Curtis 124. Singapore : Beschamps. 



C. SQUAMATUM, Vahl Symb. II. 74 (1791). An erect shrub, native 

 of India, China, and Sumatra, with ovate cordate leaves and scarlet 

 flowers in large panicles. — Singapore : Bidley 9209. 



1. Clerodendeon neriifolium. Wall. Cat. 1789 (1828). A strag- 

 gling shrub ; branches ashy-grey, lenticellate ; branchlets slender, grey- 

 ish-brown. Leaves membranous, ternate or opposite ; elliptic, acute or 

 rounded often slightly emarginate at apex, shortly attenuate at base ; 

 glabrous, or, when young, sparsely pubescent on both surfaces ; margins 

 entire; 1*5 to 3'5 in. long, -75 to 1-75 in. broad; midrib slender; main 

 nerves about 5 pairs, straight or branched to meet in an obscure looped 

 intramarginal nerve ; reticulations finely netted ; petiole slender, -25 to 

 •5 in. long. Cymes axillary, umbellate, sometimes in a 7-flowered 

 dichasium, often only 3-flowered ; peduncle 1 to 1-5 in. long ; bracts 

 linear, setaceous; bracteoles similar but smaller; pedicels -15 to -25 in. 

 long ; flowers white, purplish-pink (Forbes). Calyx tubular-campanu- 

 late, enlarged in fruit and then cup-shaped ; tube -15 in. long, pubescent 

 and gland-dotted without ; teeth 5, minute. Corolla-tuhe very 

 slender, -75 to 1 in. long; gland-dotted without, villous within; lobes 5, 

 spreading, unequal, somewhat oblong, about -25 in. long. Stamens red, 

 long-exserted ; anther-cells oblong, parallel. Ovary cylindric, obtuse ; 

 style very slender ; stigma shortly bifid. Drupe obovoid, -5 in. long, 

 4 in. in diameter ; top depressed; exocarp spongy; pyrenes 4 readily sepa- 

 rating, endocarp crustaceous. Seed obovoid ; testa thin ; cotyledons 

 oblong, thick, fleshy ; radicle very short, thick. Schauer in DC. Prodr. 

 XL 660 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. II. 839 ; Clarke in Hook, f . Fl. Br. Ind. IV. 589 ; 

 Prain Beng. Plants 835. C. inerme, Benth. Fl. Hongk. 271, and Fl. 

 Austral. V. 61 ; Schauer I. c. {in part) ; Wall. Cat. 1788, Sheet 1 or a. 

 G. inerine var. neriifolia, Kurz For. Fl. II. 266. Volkameria nerufolia, 

 Eoxb. Fl. Ind. III. 64. " Jasminum litoreum," Kumph. Herb. i\.mb. V. 

 t. 46. 



Kedah : in Langkawi Island, Curtis (Hamad). Penang : at Batu 

 Ferengy, Curtis 2782; (or Singapore), Wallich 1788,1. Perak : at 



