238 Clerodendron. 



According to Ridley this species is partly described by Clarke 

 as Clerodendron Lobbii; he supposed it to have come from 

 Penang. Ridley thinks that it is certain, that Lobb collected 

 in Borneo. 



XXI. CLERODENDRON L., Gen. pi. ed. I, 136 



(1737); Blame. Bijdr. 807; R. Brown, Prodr. Fl. Nov. 



HoU. 510; Benth. et v. Muell, Fl. Austr., V. 31; Benth. 



et Hook. Gen. pi. II, 2, 1155; Blanco, Fl. Fil. ed. I. 508; 



Schauer. DC. Prodr. XI. 658; Engler u. Prantl. Nat. 



Pfl. fam. IV, 3a, 174; Koordecs en Valeton, Bijdr. Booms. 



Java no. 7, 211; King and Gamble, Journ. As. Sec. Beng. 



LXXIV, 4, 825; Hasskad, 2e Cat. 's L. PI. tuin^ 135; 



Miquel, Fl. Ind. bat. II, 867; Roxb., Fl. ind. Ill 57. - 



Shrubs (sometimes climbing), or trees; leaves simple, 



opposite or ternate; cymes usually lax, axillary, usually 



united to a large terminal panicle, which sometimes is 



very dense, umbelli- or thyrsiform ; bracts often foliaceous; 



flowers usually large, white, blue, pink or red, the calyx 

 often coloured as the corolla; calyx infundibuliform or 

 cupuliform, sometimes very wide across the middle; 5- 

 toothed or 3- or 5-lobed, sometimes nearly truncate; 

 usually enlarged in fruit, spreading or including the fruit; 

 corolla with narrow, cylindric tube, often very long, 

 sometimes widened near the throat; limb spreading or 

 somewhat recurved, 5-lobed; lobes subequal; stamens 4, 

 inserted in the throat or the upper part of the corolla- 

 tube, exserted, rolled up in bud; anther-cells with parallel 

 fissures; style with shortly bifid stigma; ovary imperfectly 

 4-celled; cells with 1 high-laterally attached ovule; fruit 

 with 4 furrows or ± 4-lobed, ± drupaceous; endocarpium 

 smooth or rippled, hard, splitting up into 4 pyrenes. 



Distribution: in the warmer regions of the old world; 

 some species in tropical America and Africa. 



