Clerodendron. 255 



Britain!, New-Ireland!, Palau-Isl!. Marianne-Isl.!, Caroline- 

 IslJ, Aru-Isl.. Queensland, N.-Australia. N.-S.-Wales, 

 New-Caledonia, Fitchi-, Samoa- and Tonga-Isl. (see 

 Hallier f.. I.e.). 



The species is a rather polymorphous one, being variable in 

 form of leaves, form and tomentum of calyx, and in the cymes. 



5. C. Thomsonae Balf., Edinb. New Phil. Journ. N. 5, 

 XV. 233 (1862); Bot. Mag. t. 5313; King and Gamble, 

 Journ. As. Soc. Beng, LXXIV, 4, 827; Merrill, Phil. Journ. 

 Sci. Bot. XI, 310; Hall. f. Med. 's Rijks Herb. Leid. no. 

 37, 72. — A climbing shrub; branchlets quandrangular, 

 with cymes and petioles minutely pubescent; leaves, sub- 

 chartaceous, broadly ovate, base subcordate or truncate, 

 abruptly' attenuate, apex acute; margins entire; upper sur- 

 face minutely and rather densely pubescent, lower one 

 glabrous, glandular, pubescent on the nerves; base charac- 

 teristically 3-nerved, the side-nerves curving along the 

 margins up to Ys of the length of. the leaf from its base; 

 other nerves short, few, indistinct; 4^8 by 2— 5V2 cM.; 

 petioles 0.7^1.5 cM.; cymes axillary, 7—15 cM. long, 

 peduncles 4—6 cM.; pedicels Vq^^ cM.; bracts foliaceous, 

 pubescent above, lanceolate; calyx subinflate, wide, mem- 

 branous, white or greenish, 1.8—2.7 cM. long, 1—2.5 

 cM. wide, with 5 broadly lanceolate, acute segments; 

 glabrous or somewhat minutely pubescent near the mar- 

 gins; corolla red, tube as long as the calyx, somewhat 

 widening towards the throat with minute hairs and some 

 glanduliferous hairs; lobes obovate, 0.3—0.5 cM. long; 

 stamens slender, 2.5 cM. exsert, inserted in the throat; 

 style 1.3 cM. exsert, with bifid stigma. 



New-IRELAND (Neu-MeCKLENBURQ): Peekel no. 526, 

 Namatanai, Kaselsel, flow, on 23-VII-1910, cultivated. 



Caroline-Isl.: Ledermann no. 13855, Ponape, Paila- 

 palap. Government-garden, 40—50 M. in alt., cultiv., flow, 

 on 26— XII— 1913— C/jarZey Gibbons no. 1006, same 



