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thickened ; anthers oblong, -075 in. long ; cells parallel. Ovary glabrous, 

 truncate at top ; style very long, slender ; stigmas 2, rather long. 

 Drupe purple, succulent, when dry -25 in. long, and as much broad at 

 top, with 4 (or less) well-marked pyrenes ; pyrenes obovoid, plane or con- 

 cave on inner faces ; endocarp crustaceous. Seeds obovoid, "15 to -2 in. 

 long, concave on the inner, convex on the outer face, which is wrinkled ; 

 testa thin ; cotyledons fleshy, unequal, one convex, the other concave ; 

 radicle minute. C.farinosum, Wall. Cat. 1810 (not Volkameria farinosa, 

 Eoxb.). C. divaricatum, Jack in Mai. Misc. I. 2, and in Hook. Bot. 

 Misc. II. 89 ; Schauer in DC. Prodr. XI. 674. 



Peeak: Wray 1871; at Ipoh, Cicrtis 3198, 3328; at Ipoh and 

 Baton Gaja, Deschamps ; near Thaiping, Scortechmi 507 ; at Goping, 

 King's Collector (Kunstler) 480. Selangob : Goodenough 10478 ; Cecil 

 C. Smith. — DiSTRiB. India (Sikkim, Assam and Burma), Sumatra, 

 Java, Celebes, Cambodia. 



We have not followed Clarke in quoting C. javaniciim,, Walp. Eep. IV. 113, as we 

 consider the description therein given does not sufficiently fit our specimens. 



10. Clerodendron infortunatum, Linn. Sp. PL 637 (1753). A 

 shrub, usually about 3 to 8 ft. high, occasionally a small tree, gregari- 

 ous ; branchlets obtusely quadrangular, slightly furrowed, clothed with 

 yellowish pubescence. Leaves somewhat coriaceous ; ovate, acuminate 

 at apex, rounded or cordate at base ; both surfaces roughly strigosely 

 hairy, lower sometimes with small obscure round glands ; margins 

 dentate or denticulate, rarely entire ; 4 to 10 in. long, 3-5 to 8 in. broad ; 

 midrib prominent ; main nerves also prominent, about 8 pairs, the 

 lowest two pairs near the base spreading, the rest gradually curving 

 upwards, all joined by prominent transverse nervules which branch 

 and anastomose ; reticulations netted ; petiole 1 to 4 in. long, densely 

 pubescent. Panicle terminal, pyramidal, spreading, 6 to 12 in. long 

 and broad, densely tawny-pubescent ; the branches trichotomous, ending 

 in many-flowered cymules ; bracts leafy, ovate-lanceolate, deciduous ; 

 bracteoles lanceolate, also deciduous ; pedicels slender, -25 to '5 in. long ; 

 buds clavate, rounded at top ; flowers white, tinged with pink ; the 

 calyx red at the base (Ic. Eoxb.). Calyx cleft nearly to the base, silky 

 pubescent, often with scattered, large, round, peltate glands ; the lobes 

 lanceolate, acute, suberect, "3 to '4 in. long ; fruiting calyx enlarged, 

 crimson, reaching 1-5 in. in diam. when spread out. Corolla densely 

 pubescent without ; tube cylindric, slender, -5 to -75 in. long; lobes 

 spreading, as long as the tube, the 2 upper somewhat spathulate, the 

 3 lower ovate, oblong, rounded. Stamens long-exsert ; filaments gla- 

 brous ; anthers oblong ; the cells parallel. Ovary rounded, glabrous ; 



