252 Clerodendron. 



Forbes Wand. Nat. f. Mai. Arch. II, 226; Ha//./., Med. 

 's Rijks Herb. Leid. no. 37, 61 ; Pulle in Lorentz, Nova- 

 Guinea VIII, 2, 402 and VIII, 4, 687; Hook. f.. Fl. Br. Ind. 

 IV, 589; Koord., Med. 's Lands PI. tuin XIX, 558 and 

 Exk. fl. V. Java, III, 138; Hook.. Comp. Bot. Mag." I. 

 348; Hassk., 2e Cat. 's Lands PI. t., 135; Miq.. Fl. Ind. 

 bat. II, 868; Merrill. Bur. Gov. Lab. no. 27. 68; Miq., 

 Ann. Mus. L.— B. Ill, 254; v. MuelL, Descr. notes pap. 

 pl. I, 11; Roxb., Ft. ind. Ill, 58; Rumphius. Herb. Amb. 

 VII, 86; K. Schum. u. Lauterb., Fl. D. Sudsee, 525; 

 K. Schum. u. Hollr., Fl. Kais.-W.-land, 122; Schimper, 

 Bot. Mitt. a. d. Tr. Ill, 129; Spanoghe, Linnaea XV, 329; 

 K. Schum., Engl. Jhrb. IX, 220; Vai, Bull. Dept. Agr. 

 I.-N. X, 51; Warb.. Engl. Jhrb. XIII, 427. - C. cap- 

 sulare Blco. I.e. 509 (1837); Schau. I.e. 674; Miq. Fl. 

 Ind. bat. II, 881; Merrill I.e. 68. — C. Commersonii 

 Spr. Syst. Veg. II, 758 (1825); Schau. I.e. 673; Miq. I.e. 

 882; Merrill, Phil. Journ. Sci. Bot. IX, 135. — C. in er me 

 R. Br. Prodr. 511 (1827); Cham., Linnaea VII, 105; 

 Hemsley Chall. Rep. Bot. I, 110 and 176. — C. nerei- 

 folium Wall. cat. no. 178, (1828); Schau. I.e. 660; 

 Hook. f. I.e. 589; King and Gamble, Journ. As. Soe. 

 Beng. LXXIV. 4, 827; Miq. I.e. 869; Schimper. l.c 129. - 

 A straggling shrub often elimbing, or a small tree; 

 branchlets ash-grey, round, glabrous or minutely appres- 

 sedly pubescent as are cymes and petioles; leaves ovate, 

 or ovate-lanceolate, sometimes sublanceolate; base euneate 

 or acute to rectangular, apex shortly and obtusely acumi- 

 nate or rounded, sometimes subacute; margins entire; 

 usually coriaceous, rarely membranous; pairs of nerves 

 5 — 8; glabrous on both surfaces; 2 — 13 by 0.8—8 cM.; 

 petioles 0.3^ — 2.2 cM.; cymes axillary, often in a terminal 

 more or less umbelliform panicle, branchlets 3-florous, the 

 3 pedicels equal in length or the lateral ones longer and 

 sometimes each of them bearing 1 — 3 flowers, rather 



