276 Clerodendron. 



Vriese et Teijsmann in H. L.-B. sub nos. 908.267-1093 

 and 1094 (C. catalpifolium). 



30. C. porphyrocalyx Laut. et K. Schum. in Fl. D., 

 Siidsee 526 (1900). — C. rhytidophyllum K. Schum. in 

 K. Schum. u. Lauterb. Nachtr. Fl. D. Sudsee, 371 (1905). ~ 

 An undershrub, 0.8—1 M. (Ledermann), a climbing shrub 

 (Schlechter); a shrub, 1—2 M. (Moszkowski. Gjellemp, 

 Lauterbach), a large tree ^) (Moszkoivski) ; branchlets qua- 

 drangular, with petioles and panicles ferruginous-pubescent; 

 leaves variable in shape, usually oblong or elliptical, some- 

 times subrotundate, oblong-lanceolate or lanceolate, base 

 usually truncate or rounded, sometimes subcordate or 

 obtuse or even cuneate, apex shortly acuminate; margins 

 entire or irregularly sinuate-dentate or scalloped; mem- 

 branous or chartaceous; pairs of nerves 5^ — ^10; both sides 

 glabrous, pubescent on the midrib, sometimes with some 

 hairs above; glandular and sometimes with some peltate 

 scales beneath; upper side sometimes indistinctly glandular; 

 9—28 by 2.3— I8V2 cM.; petioles 0.8— IOV2 cM.; pani- 

 cles lax, few-flowered, with many caducous, below leafy 

 bracts, becoming linear towards the top of the panicle 

 and pubescent on both sides; 7—13 cM. long, 9—12 cM. 

 in diam.; calyx on a 0.7 — 2 cM. long pedicel, campanu- 

 late, 5-fidj halfway down, the segments acute, deltoid; 

 densely pubescent and with sessile glands without, with 

 glanduliferous hairs within^ tube 0.4 — 0.6 cM.; lobes 0.4— 

 0.6 cM., sometimes reflexed; corolla softly pubescent, glan- 

 dular, the tube with some glanduliferous hairs as are in 

 the inner side of the calyx; tube 1.6—2 — 2.5 cM.; lobes 

 elliptical, 0.6 — 0.8 cM. long, sometimes narrow; stamens 

 1.7— 2V3 cM. exsert, inserted in the throat; anthers rather 



') Notwithstanding these quite different quahflcations, we could not 

 by any means separate the variaties, as their many transitory forms did 

 not justify us to raise it to the specific rank. 



