834 BENGAL PLANTS. [Clerodendron. 
ry cymes or terminal panicles, often leafy below; bracts 
conspicuous or small; bracteoles 0. Sepals 5, connate in a cam- 
panulate calyx; limb truncate or 5-toothed or almost 5-partite, 
persistent, often accrescent, sometimes coloured. Petals 5, con- 
nate in a slender, cylindric, usually long, filiform corolla; lim 
more or less oblique; lobes spreading. Stamens 4, didynamous, 
far exserted, adnate under corolla-throat ; anthers ovate or oblong; 
cells parallel. Carpels connate in an imperfectly 4-celled ovary ; 
ovules in each cell solitary; style filiform; stigma shortly 2-fid. 
Fruit a globose, oad very rarely almost dry drupe, 4-grooved, 
and separating in pyrenes, of which 1-8 may often be sup- 
pressed. Seeds elke ; albumen 0. 
*Corolla irregularly salver-shaped, 1:5 in. long or less :—[p. 835] 
icles axillary, or if (occasionally in C. eGuides terminal, ne 
panicle lax, ind below :— 
utely toothed, in fruit enti enlarged, subtruncate, 
sbheatiig the base of the berry ; fruit spongy; leaves entire :— 
eaves obovate or elliptic, sobs opposite or rarely ternate ; 
calyx in fruit deity applied to base of berry .......+.-seseee0 inerme. 
Leaves elliptic-acute, or nea Sb generally ternate; calyx 
in fruit subpatent neriifolium. 
Calyx lobed half-way down; lobes Pieler a caudate- acini 
in fruit more rigid, glisnat covering oe berry ; fruit s somew: at 
succulent; es ovate, sinuate or serrat phlomoides. 
Panicles term 
Calyx ae bracts a ‘5-15 in. long, often coloured ; 
leaves oblong or elliptic, acumin: 
Leaves subsessile; calyx sah ge 5-lobed ; eae One 
leaf-margins always serrate ... wae 
Leaves very shortly petioled ; ache almost truncate ; wie 
open ; uppermost leaves sometimes e 
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serratum var. Wallichit. 
Calyx deeply 5-lobed ; bracts small :— 
Panicle penitilincih: lax, a corolla pure white ; berry purple; 
calyx divided to near the broad base; segments ovate-lanceolate ; 
leaves narrowly obovate or aaecioas, entire ...... nae 
Panicle erect; corolla tinged with pink or rose; > berry ‘ha 
leaves wide-ovate or subrotund :— 
+Calyx large, with br roiadly lanceolate, ee suberect segments ; 
panicle open, pyramidal ; leaves entire or serrulate, acuminate, 
base cordate or obtuse [p. 835] : infortunatum 
