DURANTA. 27 



Distribution: tropical America, imported into Java! and 

 Luzon (Merrill). 



Subtribe E. CiTHAREXYLE^. 



VII. DURANTA L. Gen. PL ed. I, 367 1 1737); Bentham 

 and Hooker, Gen. PI. II, 2, 1150; Schaaer, DC: Prodr. 

 XI, 615; Engler u. Pranti, Nat. Pfl. Fam, IV, 3a, 159. — 

 American shrubs, imported into Asia. Leaves small, simple, 

 opposite or verticillate, entire or serrate-dentate; inflores- 

 cences spicate, axillary and terminal, forming a large 

 terminal panicle; flowers apart; calyx regular, 5-ribbed, 

 5-toothed, persistent, including the fruit; corolla 2-lipped, 

 upper lip 2-lobed, lower lip 3-lobed, middle-lobe longer; 

 stamens 4, with short filaments, inserted above the middle 

 of the cylindrical corolla-tube, ± didynamous; style shorter 

 than or as long as the corolla tube with club-shaped, sub- 

 obhque stigma; ovary 8-celled; cells 1-ovuled; fruit a 

 drupe with 4 pyrenes; pyrenes 2-seeded, 2-celled. 



Distribution: tropical America, imported into and culti- 

 vated in tropical Asia, and there sometimes escaped. 



1. D. Plumieri facqain, Select. Am., 186, t. 176, fig. 

 76, (1763); Schauer. DC. Prodr. XI, 615 ; Elbert, Meded. 

 's Rijks Herb. Leiden, no. 12, 15; Gaertner De Fruct. et 

 Sem. PI. I, 272; Koorders, Exk. fl. v. Java, III, 134; 

 Martins in Flora Brasil. IX, 271 ; Merrill, Bur. Gov. Lab. 

 no. 6, 35; Bot. Mag. tab. 1759. — A shrub; young parts 

 softly scarcely hairy, glabrescent; leaves variable in form 

 and dimensions, ovate, base cuneate, apex subacute or 

 somewhat rounded, margins entire on more or less crenate 

 towards the apex, opposite or subverticillate, pairs of 

 nerves 4 — 5; upper side very sparsely hairy, lower side 

 somewhat less sparsely, glandular, 2Vs^5 by 0.8—2 cM.; 

 petioles 0.4—0.5 cM.; spikes lax, elongated, the lower 

 axillary, one terminal, composing together a large terminal 



