Clerodendron. 249 



1.2 cM.; both surfaces covered with pale unicellular hairs; 

 cymes in a pair, about 5 cM. long and in diam., many- 

 flowered; pedicels and peduncles (1.2 cM.) densely pubes- 

 cent; calyx 5-lobed; segments lanceolate, acute, 0.5 cM., 

 .with red hairs; corolla 1.8 cM.; tube cylindric, dilated at 

 base, curved above, pinkish, pubescent; upper part crimson; 

 lobes 5—6, obovate, rounded, creamy white, hairy on the 

 back; stamens glabrous, crimson; over 1.2 cM. longer 

 than the corolla-tube; anthers linear, deeply bifid, black; 

 style filiform, crimson, glabrous, long; stigmata 2, green, 

 subulate, ovary subglobose, obscurely 4-lobed. 



Distribution: W.— Borneo (Sarawak, Mt. Matang). 



If this is really a Clerodendron (corolla-lobes S-— 6! form of 

 tube!) it is a very remarkable one. In size it should be analo- 

 gous with Pygmeeopremna, which can be considered as a 

 dwarf-form of Premna. 



2. C. lankawiensc King et Gamble, Kew Bull., 110 

 (1908) and Journ. As. Soc. Beng. LXXIV, 4, 830. — A 

 shrub ; branchlets scabrid-puberulous, obtusely quadrangular, 

 channelled; leaves chartaceous, oblong-lanceolate or oblan- 

 ceolate, acute at apex, attenuate at base; both surfaces 

 sparsely glabrous-hispid, pubescent on the nerves beneath; 

 margins entire; 7^^. — 10 by 1.2 — 2.5 cM.; midrib stout; 

 main nerves 8^ — 10 pairs, curving acutely upwards to and 

 along the margin; petioles 0.6 cM., scabrid-pubescent; 

 panicles leafy, terminal, pyramidal, thyrsoid, reaching 25 

 cM. in length and 10 cM. in diam., scabrid-pubescent; 

 cymes trichotomous, few-flowered ; , bracts leaf-like, lanceo- 

 late; bracteoles small, setaceous; pedicels slender, 0.5 cM.; 

 buds clavate up to 1.8 cM. long; calyx campanulate, 

 scabrous-hispid without, glabrous and with large peltate 

 glands within, cleft about two-thirds down, prominently 

 nerved; lobes acute, ovate, 0.5—0.6 cM. long, 0.25 cM. 

 broad at base; coroWa-tube slender, pubescent, cylindric, 

 1.2 cM. long; lobes spreading, obovate, the midlobe of 



