280 Clerodendron. 



the apex; leaves acuminate, margins serrulate, upper sur- 

 face minutely pubescent when young, ultimately glabrous 

 except near the base, lower one tawny-pubescent on the 

 nerves; pairs of nerves 11 — 13; 15—25 by 5— 6V2 cM.; 

 petioles 2Vs— 3V2 cM.; panicles terminal, reaching 20 cM. 

 in length, 10—13 cM. in diam., puberulous; cymes lax 

 2— 5-flowered; bracts lanceolate to filiform; pedicels 1 — 

 1.8 cM.; calyx 5-partite, lobes 1.0—1.3 cM., lanceolate, 

 acute, pubescent, enlarged in fruit; coro/ia-tube slender, 

 IV2— 2 cM. long, pubescent; lobes subequal, subspathu- 

 late, apiculate; stamens and style 1.8 cM. exsert. 



Distribution: Borneo (Penokok). 



As Sfapf mentions that this species is allied to C. dispari- 

 folium, C. calamitosum and C. Griffithianum, it may be that 

 it had better be brought to the subsection Axilliflora. But as 

 Siapf speaks only of a „terminal panicle" we provisorily placed 

 it among the Paniculafa. 



34. C. myrmecophilum Ridi, Journ. Bot. XXXIII, 42 

 (1895); Bot. Mag. t. 7887; King and Gamble, Journ. As. 

 Soc. Beng. LXXIV, 4, 832. — An undershrub; branchlets 

 glabrous; internodes swollen, hollow, fistular; bark white; 

 leaves opposite or alternate, membranous, oblong-lanceolate, 

 base obtuse or ' acuminate, apex acuminate; 15 — 30 by 

 5— lO.cM.; petioles fistular, 6 — 18 cM. long; 'panicles 

 terminal, pubescent, reaching more than 30 cM. in length 

 and 7^/ 2' — 10 cM. in diam.; cymes rather few-flowered; 

 bracts linear, caducous, 0.6 cM. ; calyx with 5 linear teeth, 

 cleft down to the base, 0.8 cM., pubescent, in fruit 

 enlarged to 2Y2 cM. in diam., lobes red, reflexed; coro/Za- 

 tube puberulous, 2V2 cM. {Ridley), 1.2 cM. (King et Gamble), 

 red; lobes pubescent, orange-coloured, as long as the tube 

 (King et Gamble); stamens 2V3 cM. exsert, red; anthers 

 purple, oblong-reniform ; style as long as the stamens 

 (K. et G.), or shorter (Ridley), red; stigmatic lobes seta- 

 ceous, slender; ovary glabrous; drupe black, globose, 



