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anthers oblong-reniform ; cells parallel. Ovary glabrous, cylindric ; 

 style very slender ; stigmatic branches short. Dru2)e obovoid, 1- to 4- 

 pyrened (usually 1 only) ; pyrenes pyriform ; endosperm crustaceous, 

 reticulate. Seeds conform to the pyrene ; testa membranous ; cotyledons 

 unequal, fleshy ; radicle very small. Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 2, IV. 64 

 Vahl Symb. II. 74 ; Bot. Eeg. t. 406 ; Reichb. Fl. Exot. t. 208 ; Hassk 

 PL Jav. Ear. 488 ; Schauer in DC. Prodr. XI. 668 ; Blume Bijdr. 811 

 Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. II. 879 ; Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. IV. 593 

 Hook. f. Bot. Mag. t. 7141. C. pyramidale, Andr. Bot. Rep. t. 628 

 "Wall. Cat. 1802. G. splendidum, Wall. Cat. 1803. Volkameria angulata, 

 Lour. Fl. Cochinch. 389. 



Kbdah : on low ground near sea-level. King's Collector (Kunstler) 

 1792. Penang : Wallich 1802 ; at Tanjong Bunga, Curtis 313. Peeak : 

 Wray 42, 2435 ; at L. W. Resthouse, Scortechini 915 ; at Ipoh, Deschamps ; 

 at Lariit, on rocks at 300 to 800 ft. alt.. King's Collector 6437. Selangor : 

 gap on Pahang side, at 2000 to 3000 ft. alt., Curtis 3759. Malacca : 

 Griffith 6050. Singapoee : Bidley ; gardens, hedges, and waste places, 

 Deschamps; Bukit Mandai, Goodenough. — Distrib. Siam (Hemsley in 

 Journ. Linn. Soc. XXVI. 262). 



14. Clerodendron Siphonanthus, Br. in Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 2, 

 IV. 65 (1812). An erect, usually single-stemmed, little-branched shrub, 

 reaching 4 to 8 ft. in height ; branchlets channelled, smooth-barked. 

 Leaves membranous when dry, verticillate, 3- to 5-nate or opposite, the 

 bases of the petioles joined by a pubescent ring ; narrowly lanceolate 

 or oblong-lanceolate, shortly acuminate at apex, attenuate at base ; 

 both surfaces glabrous, the lower pale ; margins entire or sinuate, re- 

 curved ; 4 to 8 in. long, -5 to 1 in. broad ; midrib prominent ; main nerves 

 10 to 12 pairs, very short, straight, joining prominent looped intra- 

 marginal nerves which start from the base ; transverse nervules very 

 few ; petiole none or extremely short. Panicle terminal, thyrsoid, 

 leafy, reaching 8 to 18 in. in length, and 4 to 6 in. in diam. ; branches 

 red, verticillate, of lax peduncled few-flowered cymes ; bracts linear- 

 lanceolate, -5 in. long ; bracteoles subulate ; pedicels -5 to 1-5 in. long, 

 puberulous ; buds long, clavate ; * flowers white, changing to cream- 

 colour. Calyx puberulous, divided three-fourths down ; lobes ovate- 

 lanceolate, acute, densely clothed within with minute round glands, 

 ■3 to '4 in. long, -15 in. broad ; fruiting calyx greatly enlarged, leathery, 

 up to 1'5 in. in diam., crimson. Corolla-tnhe funnel-shaped, glabrous, 

 curved, 3 to 4-5 in. long, about -1 in. broad below, widening above; 

 lobes spreading, obovate- or oblong-obtuse, -3 to -4 in. long. Stamens 

 long exsert ; filaments slender, glabrous ; anthers oblong, -1 to '15 in. 

 long ; cells parallel. Ovary glabrous, obtuse ; style very long, slender ; 



