292 Clerodendron. 



51. C, Lindawianum Lauterb. in K. Schum. u. Lauterb. 

 Nachtr. Fl. D. Sudsee, 372 (1905); Ridley, Transact. Linn. 

 Soc. IX, I. 2nd. Ser. Bot., 137; Gibbs, Dutch N.W. New 

 Guinea, 218. — C. Versteegi Pulle. in Lorentz, Nova- 

 Guinea, VIII. 2, 403 (1910) and VIII, 4, 687; Hall, f., 

 Med. 's Rijks Herb. Leid. no. 37, 67. — A shrub, 2—5 

 M. high, sometimes treelike (Ledermann), a herb {Leder- 

 mann, mountain-form? 2070 M. !); branchlets round, with 

 petioles and inflorescences appressedly tawny- or ful- 

 vous- tomentose; leaves subcordato-ovate, base some- 

 times rounded, 'Usually somewhat cordate, apex shortly, 

 acutely or obtusely acuminate, margins entire; membranous 

 or thinly chartaceous; both surfaces rather densely appres- 

 sedly pubescent, densier on the nerves, lower side glan- 

 dular; pairs of nerves 7—9; 14—22 by 7— I6V2 cM.; 

 petioles 4 — IIV2 cM.; panicles terminal, pyramidate, 

 10—21 cM. long, 7—16 cM. wide; peduncles 3— 71/3 

 cM.; bracts leafy; bracteoles lanceolate-Hnear, 0.5 cM., 

 cymes di- or trichotomous; pedicels 0.3—0.5 cM. ; calyx 

 0.5—0.7 cM., lobes 5, 0.2-0.3 cM. long; pubescent, 

 often with peltate scales without, glandular within ; 

 coroWa-tube 0.6—1 cM., glabrous or nearly so, glandular; 

 lobes rounded, puberulous and glandular along the midrib, 

 0.4 cM. long; stamens 1.5—2 cM. exsert, inserted in the 

 throat; style somewhat shorter exsert; stigmatic lobes 

 slender, rather long; ot;ary glabrous; drupe giobose, 

 glabrous, usually seated on the somewhat enlarged calyx, 

 the lobes of which are spreading or reflexed. 



New-Guinea: Nyman no. 831, Simbang (K.-W.-land), 

 flrs. white in Aug. 1899. — Ledermann, Kais.-W.-land, 

 no. 6615, Camp Malu, 40—60 M., fr. dark-green with 

 red calyx, on 14-III-1912; id. no. 8219, Hunstein-peak, 

 Camp V, 200 M. in alt.; flrs. white, bark greyish, flow, 

 on lO-Vin-1912; id. no. 11889, Schrader-Mt., 2070 M., 

 herb, 1 M. high, calyx red with white tomentum, flow. 



