Clerodendron. 283 



chotomous; bracts and bracteoles small, almost linear; 

 pedicels 0.3^ — 0.5 cM.; calyx deeply 5-partite; lobes lan- 

 ceolate;- calyx with panicle with glanduliferous hairs; 0.2 

 cM.; in fruit very enlarged, spreading, 1 cM. long, red 

 within; coro//a-tube 0.8 cM.; lobes 0.7 cM.; stamens 2 

 cM. exsert.; drape globose, black-purple (?), somewhat 

 pulverulent, 0.6—0.7 cM. in diam. (if ripe?). 



Distribution: Borneo (Sarawak). 



Characterized by its extremely short corolla-tube. 



38. C. papuanum Scheff. Ann. J. bot. Btzg. I, 41 

 (1876). — A shrub?; branchlets with petioles and panicles 

 densely and softly pubescent; leaves ovato-cordate, shortly 

 acuminate, margins coarsely dentate, mucronate-sinuate ; 

 upper side hirsutely, appressedly pubescent, lower one 

 softly pubescent; 6—16 by 5—12 cM.; petioles 5 — 15 

 cM.; panicles terminal, erect, shorter than the leaves, 

 few- flowered; bracts and bracteoles caducous; ca/yx small, 

 segments 5, ovate, acute; in fruit enlarged but twice as 

 short as the fruit; corolla 5 times as long as the calyx. 



Distribution: New-Guinea (Mansinama-isl.). 



39. C. puberulum Merrill Phil. Journ. Sci. Bot. X, 72 

 (1915). — An undershrub; innovations puberulous; leaves 

 ovate, broad, chartaceous, base sinuate- cordate, sinus deep; 

 margins dentate; upper side hirsute with sparse stiff hairs, 

 lower one softly pubescent, glandular; 10—20 by 9—17 

 cM.; petioles puberulous, reaching 15 cM. in length; 

 panicles terminal, narrowly pyramidate; 20 cM. long, 

 10—14 cM. in diam.; cymes 7 cM.; pubescent; bracts 

 1 — iVa cM., narrow; flowers many, red; pedicels 1 — IV2 

 cM.; caZyx-lobes pubescent, oblong, obtuse, 0.3 cM., in 

 fruit enlarged to 0.5—0.6 cM.; coro//a-tube 1.2 cM. long, 

 0.1 cM. in diam., somewhat puberulous without; lobes 

 0.5—0.7 cM., obtuse; stamens 2 cM. exsert; drupe 0.5 

 cM. long, 0.8 cM. in diam. 



Distrubution : Mindanao. 



