838 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



long ; flowers white to rose-purple. Calyx pubescent, "15 to "25 in. 

 long, cleft half-w^ay down ; tube with often a large gland under each 

 lobe ; lobes triangular-lanceolate, acute ; fruiting calyx scarcely 

 enlarged. Coj-olla-tuhe cylindric, slender, nearly glabrous, -75 to 1 in. 

 long ; lobes elliptic or obovate, "25 in. long. Stamens long-exsert ; 

 filaments glabrous ; anthers oblong-reniform, -075 in. long ; cells parallel. 

 Ovary glabrous, obtuse ; style very long and slender ; stigmatic lobes 2, 

 short. Drupe glabrous, blue, '3 to -35 in. in diam. with usually 4 pyrenes. 

 Schauer in DC. Prodr. XI. 672 ; Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. IV. 594. 

 C. glanchdosum, Colebr. MS. ex Wall. Cat. 1806 ; fide Walp. ; Lindl. in 

 Bot. Eeg. t. 19 (1844) in note ; Schauer I. c. 



Singapore : Lobb. — Disteib. India (Sikkim, Assam, Burma). It 

 is not quite certain that it is really indigenous in the Peninsula ; Lobb's 

 specimen may have been from a cultivated plant. 



Var. Forbesii, King & Gamble. Leaves and branchlets puberulous ; 

 panicles reduced to a terminal corymb of closely packed flowers 4 to 

 5 in. long ; no glands on calyx or midrib of leaf ; flowers dark scarlet. 



Sumatra (near Kagoengan Katoe, Lampongs, at 500 ft. alt., Forbes 

 1786). 



13. Clerodendron paniculatum, Linn. Mant. 90 (1771). A shrub, 

 reaching 4 to 6 ft. in height ; branchlets quadrangular, channelled 

 below the leaf-petioles, glabrous or puberulous, the bases of the leaves 

 (as also the branches of the inflorescence) joined at the nodes by a belt 

 of soft brown hairs. Leaves membranous ; variable in shape, usually 

 orbicular or ovate, from almost simple to deeply 3- to 7-lobed, cordate 

 or hastate at base, acuminate at apex and at the apices of the lobes ; 

 upper surface sparsely hispid or glabrescent, lower pale and densely 

 covered with round peltate glands ; margins entire or minutely denticu- 

 late ; 4 to 8 in. in diam. ; midrib stout, ribs usually 3 pairs radiating 

 from the base, the lower deflexed ; main nerves of middle lobe 5 to 6 pairs, 

 of side lobes about the same but stronger on the lower side ; reticula- 

 tions slender, netted ; petiole variable, 1 to 6 in. or more. Panicles ter- 

 minal, thyrsoid, pyramidal, spreading, 4 to 12 in. long by 3 to 8 in. broad, 

 with opposite branches bearing trichotomous cymes with racemose red- 

 dish branches, the rhachises channelled ; bracts foliaceous, like the leaves 

 but smaller ; bracteoles small, linear, numerous, red ; pedicels slender, red, 

 •25 to '75 in. long ; buds clavate, the head globose ; flowers red, orange 

 or almost white ; the calyx red. Calyx divided nearly to the base ; lobes 

 oblong-lanceolate, acute, '15 to '2 in. long, much enlarged in fruit, stel- 

 late, the lobes closely embracing the drupe. Corolla-tube slender, 

 cylindric, puberulous, '5 to '7 in. long ; lobes nearly equal, elliptic, "2 to 

 •4 in. long, patent. Stamens long exserted ; filaments red, glabrous ; 



