Clerodendron. 259 



Subsection 2 Densiflora ') Schau. 



9. C. flagrans Vent. Jard. Malm. t. 70 (1804); Schauer, 

 DC. Proflr. XI, 666; Forbes et Hemsley, Fl. Sin. II, 260; 

 King and Gamble, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. LXXIV. 4, 826 (C. 

 /ragr. R. Br.); Bot. Mag. t. 1834; Kuntze, Rev. Gen. I. 

 505; Miq., Fl. Jnd. bat. II, 875; Hall f., Med. 's Rijks 

 Herb. Leid. no. 37, 71; Maximowicz, Bull. Ac. Imp. Sci. 

 St. Pet. XXXI, 84; Hassk., 2e Cat. 's Lands Pl.tuin Btzg.. 

 136. — C. foetidum Hort. Par. ex Planch, in Fl. d. 

 Serr., ser. I, IX, 17 (1853-54). - C, Lindleyi Decne. 

 ex Planch. I.e. — ? C fragrans R.Bv. in Ait. Kew. ed. 

 II, IV, 63 (1812) (see under: ..Doubtful species"). — A 

 shrub; branchlets quadrangular, with cymes and petioles 

 minutely grey-brown pubescent; leaves broadly ovate, 

 chartaceous; base subcuneate to somewhat cordate and 

 abruptly attenuate, with some large glands on the lower 

 side; apex acute or somewhat acuminate; margins entire 

 or denticulate above the middle, the teeth abrupt; pairs 

 of nerves ± 5; both surfaces softly pubescent, densier on 

 the nerves; 8—24 by 372—21 cM.; petioles iVs — H cM.; 

 inflorescences terminal, very dense, with many large, 

 lanceolate, sessile, on both sides pubescent bracts, which 

 bear large glands on their lower side; 6-9 cM. long, 

 6—10 cM. in diam.; peduncles 1 cM., bracts 2 cM. long; 

 calyx on 0.2 cM. long pedicel which gradually widens 

 into it, 1.6 cM. long, the 5 very narjow, almost subulate 

 segments as long as the tube; sparsely pubescent and with 

 some large glands; corolla entirely glabrous, simple or 

 double; tube slender, 2V2 cM., lobes ovate, 1 cM. long. 



^) This subsection does not seem a uniform one, showing transitory 

 forms to the Paniculata. of which it seems to be a particular branch, 

 whilst in the Siphonanthas-sectiOD occur species, which too, show a 

 very dense inflorescence (see System, notes). 



