278 Clerodendron. 



lobi angusti; stamina 2^^, stylus 2 cM. exserta; arbor 

 vel frutex. 



New-Guinea (Dutch-): Moszkowski no. 388, a large 

 tree, firs, yellow; Naumoni-station, v. Rees-Mts., 75—300 

 M. in alt., flow, in Oct. 1910; id. no. 280, Tana-station; 

 a shrub with white flowers in July 1910. 



Var. (J dentata H. J. Lam, nov. var. — folia ut in 

 var. a, sed margine grosse irregulariterque sinuato-dentata ; 

 corollas tubus 1.6—1.7 cM. longus; ceteroquin ut in var. a. 



New-Guinea (N.-Dutch-): Gjellerap nos. 420a-fc, 

 Hollandia, 75 M. in alt.; a shrub, 1 M. high, calyx green, 

 corolla, stamens and stigma white, anthers brown, style 

 ruddish; lower surface of leaves white; branchlets and 

 petioles brown-red-pubescent, one specimen, flow, on 

 2-1-1911. 



Distribution of the species: New-Guinea! probably 

 endemic. 



The cause that Schumann considered C. porphyrocalyx and 

 C. rhytidophyllum as being two separate species, is probably 

 the following that he saw of C. porphyrocalyx only the fruiting 

 calyx and of C. rhytidophyllum all but this. The 2 species are, 

 however, undoubtedly identical, and C. porph. s.a. is a very 

 characteristical, polymorphous species, the varieties of which, 

 though clearly separate, often show transitory forms, and are 

 conform with each other in most important and typical points. 



31. C. Friesii K. Schum. in K. Schum. u. Lauterb. 

 Nachtr. Fl. D. Sudsee, 372 (1905). - A small tree; 

 branchlets round, glabrous, with much pith; leaves lan- 

 ceolate, subchartaceous, acuminate at base and at apex; 

 margins entire, pairs of nerves 8—11 ; both surfaces entirely 

 glabrous: 20—27 by 5V2-8V2 cM.; petioles 2V2— 4 cM.; 

 inflorescences 12 cM. long, 4Y2 cM. wide, the cymes 

 few-flowered, opposite, small, sessile, thus forming a sub- 

 spicate raceme, bracts lanceolate, 2— 5V3 cM. long, sessile; 

 pedicels 1.5 cM.; ca/yx gradually narrowing into the pedicel, 



