Clerodendron. 265 



dichotomous, 2-flowered (..ramulis oppositis prope basin 

 bipartitis bifloris" Tmcz); bracts linear-lanceolate or ovate 

 or oblong, 0.4 cM.; pedicels 1.2 cM.; flowers blue; ca/yx 

 glabrous or nearly so, cup-shaped, subtruncate, 0.2— 0.25 cM., 

 red-glandular, ± unaltered in fruit; corolla glabrous; tube 

 0.5 cM., lobes 0.5 cM., obovate; stamens long exserted; 

 ovary and drupe with red glands, the latter 0.25 c.M. long. 

 Distribution: Khasia Mts., Moulmein, Singapore. 



18. C. pcnduliflorum Wall. Cat. no. 1795 (1828); 

 Hook, f., Fl. Br. Ind. IV, 591; King and Gamble, Journ. 

 As. Soc. Beng. LXXIV, 4, 830; Schauer, DC. Prodr. 

 XI, 664. — A shrub; branchlets tetragonous, farinose; 

 leaves opposite or ternate, membranous, oblong-lanceolate, 

 long attenuate (Schauer) or cuneate and sometimes obtuse 

 (Hooker f.). long acuminate; margins crenulate or entire; 

 both surfaces glabrous; 12—22 by 2"4— 10 cM.; petioles 

 very long; inflorescences terminal, glabrous or nearly so, 

 very lax, pendulous; cymes shortly peduncled, ±3-flowered; 

 ca/yx 0.65-0 8 cM., very deeply 5-fid; segments pubescent, 

 acute, ultimately reflexed; corolla very sparsely pubescent 

 and glandular; tube 1.25 cM.; drupe 0.6—0.8 cM. in diam. 



Distribution: Burma, Tenerassim, Tavoy, Nicobar-isl., 

 Penang, Malay Peninsula (K. and G.). 



19. C. umbratile King and Gamble, Kew Bull. 110 

 (1908) and Journ. As. Soc. Beng. LXXIV, 4, 831. — A 

 shrub or small tree, reaching 2.7—5 M. in height; branchlets 

 pale-brown, smooth, fistular; leaves membranous, variable 

 in shape, usually oblong or obovate or oblanceolate, the 

 broadest part about two-thirds up or even higher, long 

 and rather suddenly acuminate at apex, usually rounded, 

 but sometimes attenuate at base; glabrous on both sides; 

 entire; 20—40 cM." long, 5—15 cM. broad; pairs of nerves 

 8—12; petioles 2V2— 7V2 cM., long flaccid; pan ic/es from 

 the uppermost axils, elongate, lax, somewhat curving, 

 glabrous, usually 10—15 cM. long and about 7V2 cM. 



