828 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



Krian, Scortechini 1382. Malacca: Griffith (K.D.) 6056,1 ; on swampy 

 ground near the sea, Maingay (K.D.) 1188. Johobe : G. King. Singa- 

 pore: Kunstler 59; Hullett 143; seashore, Deschamps. — Disteib. 

 India (Chittagong at Mascal Island), Burma (Arracan and Tenasserim 

 coasts), Sumatra (Forbes 1802), Borneo {Haviland 1018, 3555), Siam, 

 PhiHppine Islands, Chma, Australia, Polynesia. 



A coast plant, similar to C. inerme, Gaertn., of the coasts of India, and con- 

 sidered by some to be a variety of it. It is distinguished by the leaves of different 

 shape and texture, the smaller and more slender and glandular corolla, and the larger 

 drupe. The leaves are sometimes lanceolate (see Eoxb. Ic. No. 2524). 



2. Clerodendron deflexum. Wall. PL As. Ear. III. 10, t. 215 

 (1832), and Cat. 1808. A shrub, reaching in height 4 ft. {Wallich), 4 to 

 6 ft. (Kunstler) ; branches obscurely quadrangular, furrowed, pu.bescent, 

 pale-brown. Leaves opposite, membranous when dry; variable in 

 shape, elliptic oblong-obovate or oblanceolate, cuspidate-acuminate at 

 apex, rounded or cuneate at base ; upper surface slightly pubescent 

 when young, afterwards glabrous except on the nerves ; lower surface 

 softly pubescent, at length glabrate ; margins entire or slightly undu- 

 late repand ; 6 to 16 in. long, 2 to 6 in. broad ; midrib strong, promi- 

 nent beneath, pubescent ; main nerves 10 to 16 pairs, prominent 

 beneath, the lowest pair from the base at an acute angle, the rest curv- 

 ing upwards to and along the margin ; transverse nervules rather 

 regular and conspicuous in old leaves ; reticulations netted ; petiole 1 to 

 2-5 in. long, pubescent, swollen above and below, channelled on the 

 upper side. Panicles corymbose, axillary in the ultimate or penulti- 

 mate axils of the branches, usually deflexed at right angles to the 

 branch ; peduncles 1 to 8 in. long, with 1 or 2 pairs of bracts like small 

 leaves along them ; bracts of the inflorescence lanceolate ; corymbs 

 crowded with single flowers or short trichotomous cymes, very many- 

 flowered ; bracteoles many, linear ; peduncles, bracts, branches and 

 calyx all red when fresh ; buds clavate ; flowers white tinged with 

 pink. Galy x-tuhe very short, scarcely '1 in. long ; lobes linear-lanceo- 

 late, erect, pubescent, -2 to '3 in. long ; fruiting calyx enlarged and 

 stellately spreading. Gorolla-tnhe very slender, -5 to '75 in. long, 

 glabrous ; lobes subequal, spreading, spathulate, up to -25 in. long. 

 Stamens long-exsert, filaments very slender, glabrous , anthers oblong ; 

 cells parallel. Ovary rounded, obtuse ; style very slender ; stigmatic 

 branches short. Drupe purple, globose, depressed, smooth, with 4 or 

 fewer pyrenes ; pyrenes pyriform, -35 in. long, -25 in. broad ; endocarp 

 crustaceous, reticulate ; seeds conform to the pyrenes ; testa membranous ; 



