264 Clerodendron. 



Ind. IV, 593; King and Gamble, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 

 LXXIV, 4, 828; Miq., Fl. Ind. bat. II. 875. - A shrub, 

 reaching 1.3 — 2 M. in height; branchlets somewhat qua- 

 drangular, sulcate, with petioles and inflorescences densely 

 pubescent; leaves chartaceous, elliptical' or elliptical-oblong, 

 base subtruncate, apex acute or acuminate, margins entire; 

 upper surface entirely glabrous, lower one somewhat pubes- 

 cent, densier on the nerves; pairs of nerves 6^ — 8; 18 — 23 

 by 7' — 8 cM.; petioles 4Y2 — 77^ cM.; inflorescences many- 

 flowered axillary in the upper axils of the branches, dense, 

 subumbelliform, 5 — 8 cM. long, 7 cM. in diam.; peduncles 

 3— 4V2 cM.; calyx gradually widening from the ± 0.5 cM. 

 long pedicel, 0.5 cM., teeth acute, lanceolate, as long as 

 the tube; minutely puberulous; corolla minutely puberulous; 

 tube slender, 2 cM., lobes narrow, 0.4 — 0.5 cM. long; 

 stamens 1 — 1 V2 cM. exsert, inserted in the corolla-tube 

 at about Vs of its length from the base; style somewhat 

 longer exsert than the stamens; stigma shortly bifid, 

 ovary glabrous. 



Malay Peninsula: Griffith no. 6049. 



Distribution: Malay Peninsula!, Penang (King and 

 Gamble). 



Subsection 3 Penduliflora Schauer. 



17. C. macrostachyum Tmcz. Bull. Soc. Nat. Mosc. 

 XXXVI, II, 220 (1863); Hook, f., Fl. Br. Ind. IV. 591. - 

 A herb; branchlets with petioles densely with glanduliferous 

 hairs; leaves very membranous, long petioled, deeply cor- 

 date, acute or subacute; margins coarsely dentate, upper 

 surface with papils which bear short hairs, lower one 

 glandular-dotted; nerves pubescent; lower leaves long 

 petioled, upper ones subsessile; 22 Vs by 16 cM.; petioles 

 16 cM.; inflorescences terminal, very long, somewhat pu- 

 bescent, glandular, I2V2-3O cM. in length; cymes opposite. 



