268 Clerodendron. 



(1796). — C. javanicura Walp. Rep. IV. 113(1844) — 

 C. macrophyllum Sims. Bot. Mag. t. 2536 (1825). — 

 C. ornatum Wall. Cat. no. 1811 (1828). - C. ser- 

 r a turn Bl. Bijdr. 810 (1825); Zoll. u. Mor. Syst. Verz. 

 53. — C. ternifolium D. Don, Prodr. Fl. Nep. 103 

 (1825). — A shrub; branchlets tetragonous, with petioles 

 glabrous; leaves lanceolate or lanceolate-oblong or oblan- 

 ceolate or -oblong, apex shortly acuminate or acute, base 

 attenuately acuminate; margins entire or denticulate or 

 dentate except near the base, the teeth varying from 

 minute to nearly setaceous and long; membranous or 

 chartaceous; opposite or ternate; glabrous on both sides; 

 pairs of nerves 6—8; 12—30 by 5—12 cM.; petioles 

 0.8—2 cM.; inflorescences long and narrow, minutely 

 pubescent. 17—20 cM. long, 6—7 cM. wide, with many 

 leafy bracts, the lower ones subrotundate, the upper ones 

 lanceolate, glabrous, 1—3 cM. long; bracteoles linear, 

 pubescent, 0.7 cM., pedicels 0.5 cM.; calyx cup-shaped, 

 0.4(— 0.7) cM., margin variably shaped, from nearly trun- 

 cate to distinctly 5-toothed, the teeth deltoid; glabrous 

 or more or less pubescent; corolla glabrous; tube rather 

 wide, 0.8 cM. long; lobes broadly ovate, 0.8 cM. long; 

 stamens 2V2 cM. exsert, slender, inserted in the corolla-tube 

 at about Vs of its length from the base, didynamous; base of 

 filaments and the lines within the tube beneath them with 

 thick short hairs; style very long, 3 cM. exsert, slender; 

 stigma unequally bifid; ovary glabrous, 4-lobed; drupe gla- 

 brous, 0.7 cM. long; the lower third included in the some- 

 what enlarged calyx, distinctly 4-lobed, with, a central cavity. 



Var. y. Wallichii C. B. Clarke in Hook f., Fl. Br. Ind. 

 IV, 592 (1885) — leaves minutely denticulate, sometimes 

 dentate, the upper ones often entire ; calyx subtruncate or 

 with 5 very minute teeth. 



forma a psilocalyx H.J. Lam, nov. f. — calyx glaber 

 vel subglaber. 



