284 Clerodendron. 



CI. infermedium, with which it should be aUied, belongs to 

 the subsection Sqaamata. 



40. C. Curtisii H. H. W. Pearson, Kew. Bull. 142 

 (1908): King and Gamble, Journ. As. See. Beng. LXXIV, 

 4, 833. — A small shrub; branchlets fistular, striate, minu- 

 tely puberulous as are petioles and inflorescences; /ea^es 

 membranous, obovate, base rounded, apex obtusely acu- 

 minate, upper side glabrescent, lower one minutely pube- 

 rulous; margins entire; pairs of nerves 9—12; petioles 

 stout, striate, 6— 7V2 cM.; 11— 22 by 6— 11 cM.; panicles 

 terminal, many-flowered, 12—15 cM. long, 6^j^ cM. in 

 diam.; bracts leafy below, the upper ones subulate, 0.25 

 cM.; pedicels pubescent; flowers orange-coloured; calyx 

 campanulate, minutely pubescent within and without, and 

 with many scales on both sides; tube 0.25. — 0.35 cM.; 

 lobes lanceolate, acuminate, 3-nerved, ciliate at margins, 

 0.5—0.75 cM. long, 0.25—0.3 cM. broad; coro//a-tube 

 2 — 2V2 cM., on both sides pubescent and with clavate, 

 sessile glands; lobes unequal, obovate-ellipticaL minutely 

 ciliate at margins, glabrous, 0.75 cM. long; sfamens long 

 exsert; ovary glabrous. 



Distribution: Malay Peninsula. 

 The fistular stems contain ant-nests. 



41. C. infortunatum L. Fl. Zeyl. 232 (1747) and Sp. 

 pi. ed. I, II, 637 (1753); Blume. Bijdr. 811; Williams, 

 Bull. Herb. Boiss. ser. II, T. V, 432; Schauer, DC, Prodr. 

 XI, 667; Gaertn., Fruct. I, 271; Hook, f., Fl. Br. Ind. 

 IV, 594; King and Gamble, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. LXXIV, 

 4. 835; Koord. Exk. fl. v. Java III, 138; Miq.. Fl. Ind. 

 bat. II, 876; Maxim. Bull. Ac. Sci. Imp. St. Pet. XXXI, 

 85; Zoll. u. Mor., Syst. Verz.. 53; Hall, f., Med. 's Rijks 

 Herb. Leid. no. 37, 64. — C. calycinum Turcz., Bull. 

 Soc. Nat. Mosc. XXXVI, 11, 222 (1863). — C. casta- 

 neifolium Klotzsch, Bot. Ergebn. Walden-Reise, 102 

 (year?) — C. cordatum D. Don, Prodr. Fl. Nep. 103 



