VERBENACEAE 401 



1, C. cana L. (C. bicolor Juss.). Tambabasi, Tubang-dalag (Tag.). 



A shrub 2 tO)4 m high, the young branches, inflorescences, petioles, and 

 lower surface of the leaves densely covered with short, grayish or whitish, 

 stellately arranged hairs. Leaves oblong-ovate, acuminate, base acute or 

 acuminate, margin sharply toothed, 6 to 14 cm long, 2.5 to 5 cm wide, 

 the lower surface pale, the upper glabrous, green, dark-colored when dry. 

 Cymes axillary, short-peduncled, dichotomous, 2 to 4 cm long. Flowers 

 pale-purplish or lavender, about 3 mm long. Fruits fleshy, globose, pale- 

 lavender, 4 to 5 mm in diameter when fresh. 



In thickets, Masambong, fl. June-Oct.; widely distributed in the Phil- 

 ippines. Malay Peninsula and Archipelago. 



2. C. blancol Rolfe. Tambabasi, Tubang-dalag (Tag.). 



A shrub 1 to 3 m high, the younger parts thinly or densely covered 

 with short, stellately arranged, brownish or pale hairs. Leaves ovate- 

 lanceolate to oblong-lanceolate, slenderly long-acuminate, base acute or 

 obtuse, 6 to 15 cm long, of about the same color on both surfaces when 

 dry, the lower surface thinly stellate-pubescent and with numerous, small, 

 waxy, yellow glands. Inflorescence and flowers as in the preceding species. 

 (Fl. Filip. PL U17, C. americana.) 



In dry thickets Masambong to Guadalupe, fl. March-Oct.; widely- dis- 

 tributed in the Philippines. Formosa. 



9. CLERODENDRON Linnaeus 



Shrubs or trees, sometimes climbing. Leaves opposite, simple, entire 

 or toothed. Cymes axillary and forming terminal panicles, the bracts 

 small or large. Calyx campanulate, truncate, toothed, or lobed, persistent, 

 often enlarged and colored in fruit. Corolla-4ube slender, cylindric, often 

 very long, the limb spreading, 6-fid, more or less oblique. Stamens 4, 

 exserted. Ovary imperfectly 4-celled, 4-ovuled. Fruit a globose, fleshy 

 drupe, rarely nearly or quite dry, 4-grooved, and separating into 4 pyrenes, 

 I to 3 of which are often suppressed. (Greek "chance" and "tree," the 

 application of the name not evident.) 



Species about 100 in the tropics of both hemispheics, mostly in the Old 

 World, about 25 in the Philippines. 



1. A slender vine; calyx-lobes white; corolla-lobes red; cultivated. 



1. C. thomaonae 

 1. Erect undershrubs, shrubs, or small trees. 

 2. Corolla-tube 5 cm long or more. 



3. Calyx in flower about 2.6 cm long, inflated 2. C. minahaaaae 



3. Calyx in flo.wer about 1 cm long, not inflated.... 3. C. guadriloculare 

 2. Corolla-tube 1 to 3.5 cm long. 

 3. Inflorencesce mostly terminal. 

 4. Cymes very dense; flowers white or pink, double, 3 to 5 cm in 



diameter 4. C. fragrana 



4.. Cymes lax; flowers single, red, slender 5. C. intermedium 



3. Inflorescence axillary. 

 4. Leaves toothed; cultivated, sparingly pubescent plant, not or 



slightly branched 6. C. ealamatoaum 



4. Leaves entire, glabrous; peduncles mostly 3-flowered; fruit dry, 

 splitting into 4 pyrenes 7. C. commeraonii 



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