266 Clerodendron. 



broad; peduncles slender, lO^l/Vs cM. long; branches 

 divaricate; cymules few-flowered; rhachis flattened and 

 slightly winged; bracts leafy, lanceolate, up to 2V2 cM. 

 long, bracteoles many, linear-setaceous; pedicels slender, 

 puberulous, 0.25—1.25 cM.; buds spathulate, curved, 2 V2 

 cM. long; flowers white tinged with pink; the calyx white 

 or pale green turning red in fruit; calyx large, slightly 

 puberulous, deeply divided nearly to the base; lobes ovate- 

 acuminate, cuspidate about 1.5 cM. long by 0.6 cM. broad, 

 enlarging in fruit to 4 cM. in diam., and then spreading; 

 coro/Za-tube slender, cylindric, 1 — 1 Vs cM. long; lobes 

 spathulate, rounded, as long as the tube; stamens exsert; 

 style very slender, with shortly bifid stigma; ovary rounded, 

 obtuse; drupe black, smooth, globose, 1.2 cM. in diam. 



Distribution: Malay Peninsula, Sumatra (Lampongs). 



20. C. laevifolium Blame, Bijdrage 808 (1825); Decne. 

 Nouv. Ann. Mus. Nat. Par. Ill, 399; Schauer. DC. Prodr. 

 XI, 674; Miquel. Fl. Ind. bat. II, 872; Hassk. 2e Cat. 

 's Lands PI. tuin Btzg., 136; Spanoghe, Linnaea XV, 329. — 

 C. nutans Wall. Cat. n. 1793 (1828) and Bot. Mag. t. 

 3049; Schauer. I.e. 663; Hook. /., Fl. Br. Ind. IV, 591; 

 Hall, f., Med. 's Rijks Herb. Leid. no. 37, 72. — A shrub, 

 2 M. high; branchlets somewhat tetragonous, glabrous; 

 leaves membranous or chartaceous, oblong-obovate or 

 oblanceolate, base attenuate, gradually widening to near 

 the abruptly acuminate apex; margins entire; pairs of 

 nerves 8 — 12; both surfaces entirely glabrous; 10—26 by 

 3.7—10 cM.; petioles V2 — 1 cM.; acumen 0.8—2 cM.; 

 panicles terminal, long, lax, relatively narrow, leafed below; 

 cymules 3-florous; cymes 2- or 3-chotomous; the whole 

 panicle 18—28 cM. long, 7—14 cM. broad; peduncles 

 5V2— 9 cM.; bracts leafy, lanceolate, 0.4— 4V2 cM. long, 

 0.1—0.8 cM. broad; bracteoles linear-setaceous, 0.2 cM.; 

 calyx glabrous, on a slender, 0.8—1.2 cM. long pedicel 

 1 — 1.2 cM. long, lobes 0.8—1 cM. ovate-lanceolate, acute, red- 



