286 Clerod'endron. 



ceolate, acuminate, 0.8 cM.; with purple hairs; corolla- 

 tube 2 cM. long, 0.2 cM. broad, lower part glabrous, 

 upper part with sparse hairs; lobes rounded-elliptical, 

 0.8—0.9 cM. long, sparsely pubescent without; filaments 

 0.9 cM. exsert. 



Distribution: Leyte (Philippines). 



43. C. Vanoverberghii Merrill, Phil. Journ. Sci. Bot. 

 VII, 98 (1912). — A shrub; branchlets tetragonous, with 

 panicles softly tawny-pubescent ; leaves ovate, chartaceous, 

 base rounded or ± cordate, apex acutely acuminate, 

 margins entire; upper side sparsely, nerves and lower side 

 densier pubescent, lower side glandular; pairs of nerves 7; 

 10—14 cM. long, 10 cM. broad or less; petioles 4—5 cM.; 

 panicles terminal, 15 cM. long and in diam.; bracts 

 narrowly oblong, 0.5—0.6 cM., pubescent; bracteoles smaller 

 with same shape ; flowers white, red in throat ; calyx pubescent, 

 0.9 cM., lobes ovate, acute, 0.3 — 0.4 cM. long; coroWa-tube 

 1.8^ — 2 cM. long, 0.2 cM. in diam., somewhat puberulous; 

 lobes oblong, obtuse or acute, 0.7 — 0.8 by 0.3 cM.; stamens 

 1,8 — 2 cM. long; fruit globose, 0.5 cM. in diam. 



Distribution: Luzon. 



44. C. heematolasium Hall, f., Med. 's Rijks Herb. 

 Leid. no. 37, 69 (1918). — A shrub; branchlets hirsutely 

 ferruginous-woolly, as are petioles and panicles; leaves 

 ovate or oblong-ovate, base rounded or subcuneate and 

 subattenuate, apex long acuminate, margins serrulate, the 

 serrulations mucronulate; membranous; both sides" rather 

 densely, softly tawny-tomentose ; pairs of nerves 6 — ^8; 

 1172—37 by 5.3—17 cM.; petioles 2— QVg cM.; panicles 

 terminal, leafed below, bracts becoming smaller towards 

 the top and there linear, 1.3 cM.; few-flowered; 9-— 15 

 cM> long, 6—7 cM. wide; peduncles Vs— 2V3 cM.; calyx 

 on a 0.4—1 cM. long pedicel, hirsutely tawny-pubescent, 

 wide, 1.2 cM.; lobes 5, lanceolate-acuminate, ribbed, 1.1 

 cM. long, 0.15 — 0.25 cM. broad; already enlarging before 



