266 VERBENACER. | Clerodendron. 
exserted. Ovary 4-celled, with a — a ovule laterally attached at 
or above the middle of each cell ; e filiform, shortly bed. 
Fruita more or less succulent or 5 ta ow drupe, contaiing 4 or 
by abortion fewer l-celled pyrenes. Seeds solitary, erect.—Shrubs 
or undershrubs, rarely small trees, with opposite or eda simple 
or rarely lobed leaves. Flowers usually showy, in lax cymes or 
heads, usually collected into terminal corymbose or thyrsoid ‘pani 
or rarely axillary. , 
* Drupes dry, capsule-like, when fully ripe separating into : 
seth ee woody valve-like nuts. Corolla tubular- 
Unarmed ; yey eins oly minutely toothed and trunc ate. C. inerme. 
* xk yy An by abortion 1-3-lobed, the nuts 
ite sm oth. f 
x Calyx tsiasabe hag 5 short teeth. : 
oor more or less leafy-bra ns Bainicete or less mealy puberulous; : 
wers blue ; ever hte : . C. serrvatum. a 
xx — to the wide or = lowe down 6-lobed: : 
escent or tome “ ; 
Corolla-tube ae as long as "the se nicle = small bracts 
only ; goles entire, softly ee tos . C. villosum. ¥ 
Corolla- ve se 6 lin. long; panicle sintipicnduily and densely 
eaves serrate, appressed pubescent . C. infortunatum. 
Quite glabrous. 
Panicles terminal, sgprnis elongate . : ; : ‘ . C. nutans. 
Panicles raceme-like, spreading, axillary ¢ . C. gratum. 
1. C. inerme, “Bleu: Bedd, Sylv. Madr. 14; Brand. For. 
ne 363.—An evergreen straggling shrub, 3 t 5 ft. high, the 
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membranous or coriaceous, entire, ares ‘flowers midlling-s 
white, more or less rose-coloured on the outside, on 2-8 lin. lo ong 
Var. 1, gerens atl usually opposite, shorter, obovate to 
any, 0 Whe more or less rounded or blunt, about 1-2 in. Jong. 
Var. 2, neriifolium (C. neriifolivm, Wall.) : leaves opposite 
ten fats, from linear to lanceolate, acute or bluntish, 2-4 in- 
ong. | 
ss : othe Var. 1: common in the tidal le all alone the const ot nee 
son Sahai Tenasserim go ianes: var. 2: more sa : 
Fl. Pe ge All. a shag of the Arracan and Tenasserim coasts. ai 
