268 VERBENACER. | [ Clerodendron, 
the Andamans, freely springing up in deserted hill toungyas and in the shade of 
village woods.—Fl. Feb.-March.—sx1.—SS.= o. 
EMARKS.— Wood yellowish white, turning brownish, rather heavy, coarse- 
fibrous, rather loose-grained, soft, soon attacked by xylophages. 
4. C. villosum, Bl.—An evergreen meagre shrub, often growing 
out into a little tree of 15 to 20 ft. height, all softer parts softly 
velvety-pubescent ; leaves cordate, on a densely tomentose petiole 
3-13 in. long, acuminate, 4-6 in. long by 3-5 broad, entire, mem- 
branous, softly and densely velvety-pubescent on both sides ; flowers 
rather small, white, on very short densely pubescent pedicels, form- 
ing a brachiate velvety-pubescent panicle at the end of the branches ; 
lower bracts diminutively leaf-like, upper ones very deciduous; 
calyx softly greyish pubescent or velvety, about 4 lin. long, the 
obes lanceolate, acuminate ; corolla pubescent outside, the tube 
about as long as the calyx-lobes or somewhat longer or shorter, the 
lobes obovate-oblong, a little shorter than the teeth; stamenslong- 
exserted ; drupes globular, the size of a large pea (unripe green), 
very shining, supported by the enlarged velvety calyx. 
re mas ee unfrequent in the drier hill forests of the M artaben, bila 
re free rin i 
to 4,000 ost oa Mek deserted upper toungyas, at elevations from 2,00 
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5. C, nutans, Wall.—A small shrub, all parts quite glabrous ; | 
_ leaves obovate- to linear-oblong, shortly petioled, acuminate at both | 
ends, remotely repand-toothed, 3-7 in. long, membranous, glabrous ; | 
flowers white, rather showy, on capillary pedicels, cymose and form- 
ing a siender, elongate, nodding, glabrous panicle at the end of the 
branchlets ; bracts subulate, minute ; calyx ample, deeply cleft, 
glabrous, the lobes lanceolate ; corolla glabrous, the tube very — 
slender and at least twice the length of the calyx-lobes, som oe 
curved ; calyx in fruit stellately spreading, crimson ; drupes globose, _ 
the size of a small cherry, glossy black. 7 
Has.—Ava, Kakhyen hills.—F]. Oct. 
6. C. gratum, Wall—A small shrub, all parts glabrous 0F 
nearly so ; leaves ovate to ovate-lanceolate, rounded or obtuse at the 4 
base, on a slender petiole 2-3 lin. long, acuminate, crenate, meme 
branous, glabrous ; flowers small, very shortly pedicelled or sessile, 
zontally spreading or recurved puberulous panicles in the axils | 
the leaves and much shorter than them ; ois puberulous, about : 
line long, the teeth subulate ; corolla thrice the length of the caly%s 
pubescent outside ; drupes globose, the size of a pepper-kernel. 
