296 Clerodendron. 



glandular above, scaled beneath; 12—17 by 14— 20 cM.; 

 petioles IV3 — 19 cM.; panicles terminal, somewhat thyr- 

 soid, leafed below, upper leaves entire. H— 45 cM. long, 

 10—25 cM. wide; lower peduncles 6 cM. long; bracts 

 lanceolate to linear, 0.2—1.5 cM. long; bracteoles linear, 

 0.2 cM.; pedicels very slender, 0.3—0.8 cM.; flowers 

 peripherically arranged; calyx minutely pubescent, 0.25— 

 0.3 cM., lobes obtuse, twice as long as the tube; coroWa 

 minutely pubescent; tube subinfundibuliform, 1.3— 1.5 cM. 

 long, 0.1 cM. in diam. near the base; lobes rounded, 0.4 

 cM. long; stamens inserted near the throat, with the 

 shortly bifid style 2V2 cM. exsert; ovary glabrous, some- 

 what obconoid. 

 Java: in H. A. R.-T. sub no. 043900. 

 Distribution: Lower Burma, Malay Peninsula, Formosa 

 {Matsumara and Hayata), Hainan, Siam, Cochin China, 

 Sumatra, Java!, Ternate (Hallier). 



56. C. coccineum H. J. Lam, nov. spec. — Frutex?; 

 ramuli cum marginibus- interpetiolaribus, paniculis totis, 

 innovationibus setis multicellularibus coccineis vestiti ; folia 

 cordato-rotundata, apice breviter acuminata, marginibus 

 denticulata, lobis basaHbus duobus partim aliis alios tegenti- 

 bus, rotundatis; basi sub-3-7-nervia ; membranacea; utrinque 

 glabra, subtus dense squamata; nervis utrinque 10—12, 

 in hervum intramarginalem coarctatis; 12 — 18 cM. longa 

 (sinu incluso), IOV2— 16Vs cM. lata; petiolo IV2— 5 cM. 

 longo; panicala terminalis, ampla, laxiuscula, pyramidata, 

 usque ad 27 cM. longa, 25 cM. lata; cymis oppositis, in 

 axillis foliorum superiorum bractearumque positis, inferio- 

 ribus longe pedunculatis, laxis, gracilibus, trichotomis, 

 bracteis linearibus sufFultis; paniculas bracteae subtus orbi- 

 culares, supra lanceolatae; pedicelli gracilissimi, ^l^ — 'i cM. 

 longi; calyx membranaceus, 1 — 1.4 cM. longus, fere usque 

 ad basin 5-partitus, laciniis lanceolato-acuminatis, extus 

 setis coccineis, intus squamis peltatis vestitis; corolla extus 



