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cotyledons unequal, fleshy ; radicle very small. Schauer in DC. Prodr. 

 XI. 665; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. II. 875; Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. 

 IV. 593. 



Penang : Porter {Wallich 1808a) ; Curtis 81. Perak : at Gunong 

 Ijuk, &c., ScortecUni 433, 1230 ; at Tapa, Waterfall, Maxwell's Hill, 

 &c., Wray 1359, 1414, 2661, 3231, 4203 ; at Coping, Bukit Bingarang, 

 &c., King's Collector (Kunstler) 168, 307, 1875, 6818. Malacca : Cuming 

 2368 ; Griffith ; Maingay (K.D.) 1185 ; Hullett 404 ; at St. John's Hill, 

 Hervey ; at Ayer Punas, Derry 296. Johore : G. King. Singapore : 

 Wallich (cf. PI. As. Ear.) ; Walker 257, 288 ; G. King. 



3. Clerodendeon disparifolium, Blume Bijdr. 809 (1826). A 

 shrub or small tree, reaching sometimes 20 ft. or more in height ; 

 branches pale brown, lenticellate, obscurely quadrangular; branchlets 

 similar, slender, puberulous. Leaves membranous, the pairs more 

 usually equal but occasionally unequal in size ; oblong- or elliptic-lanceo- 

 late, long-acuminate at apex, acuminate or acute occasionally almost 

 rounded at base ; glabrous and pale on both surfaces except sometimes on 

 the midrib beneath ; margins entire or undulate, or obscurely toothed ; 

 variable in size as in shape, 2 to 7 in. long, -75 to 2'5 in. broad ; midrib 

 slender ; main nerves 5 to 7 pairs, the lowest from close above the base 

 and at about 20° to 30° with the midrib, the rest distant, starting at 

 50° to 60° with the midrib and curving upwards to near the margin, the 

 upper ones joining in an intramarginal looped nerve ; reticulations 

 distant, transverse, not prominent ; petiole slender, variable, '5 to 2*5 in. 

 long, often twisted at base. Cymes puberulous, in lax spreading ter- 

 minal or axillary brachiate panicles ; the branches slender, repeatedly 

 trichotomous ; terminal ones sometimes up to 6 in. long, axillary ones 

 about 2 to 3 in. long ; peduncles very slender ; bracts linear, usually 

 about '25 in. long, those of main branches sometimes leafy, caducous 

 after flowering ; pedicels filiform, -25 to '5 in. long ; buds clavate ; 

 flowers pale yellow. Calyx reddish ; tube campanulate, about -1 in. 

 long ; lobes as long as tube, triangular, acute, prominently nerved ; the 

 calyx enlarged in fruit to about -5 in. long, with dark red reflexed lobes. 

 Corolla-tuhQ slender, -5 to -75 in. long, glabrous without, puberulous 

 within; lobes 5, subequal, spathulate, "2 to -25 in. long. Stamens 

 exsert. Ovary glabrous ; style as long as stamens ; stigma shortly bifid. 

 Drupe globose, succulent, -25 in. in diameter. Seeds usually 2 fertile, 

 ovoid; testa thin, wrinkled ; cotyledons thick, fleshy; radicle minute. 

 Schauer in DC. Prodr. XI. 672 ; Hassk. Eetzia i. 57 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. 

 II. 871 ; Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. IV. 589 ; Koord. & Val. Bijdr. 

 VII. 212. C. acuminattim, Wall. Cat. 1792 ; Schauer I. c. 662 ; Miq. 

 I. c. 869. C. Jackianum, Wall. Cat. 1794, and in Hook. Bot. Misc. I. 284 



