Clerodendron. 297 



puberula, tubo 1.5 cM. longo, cylindrico, lobis oblongis, 

 0.7—0.9 cM. longis, obtusis; stamina 1.4 cM. exserta, 

 fauce inserta, antheris dorso molliter puberulis, thecis- in 

 parte superiore connatis, subtus subdivaricatis ; stylus 3 — 

 4 cM. exsertus, stigmate brevissime bifido; ovarium gla- 

 brum, 4-lobum; fructus non videmus. 



Java: Buijsman no. 74, Tengger Mt., 1200 M. in alt., 

 nr. Nongho Djadjar, flow, on lO-VII-1907. 



Japan: in H. A. R.— T. sub no. 049914. 



This must be a very beautiful and decorative plant, worth 

 cultivating. 



57. C. Bethuneanum Lowe, Hist, of Borneo (Sarawak), 

 378 (year?); Hook., Comp. Bot. mag. 30 (1848); Bot. Mag. 

 t. 4485 (1849). — A shrub or small tree; branchlets 

 tetragonous, with interpetiolar margins, with panicles very 

 minutely puberulous; feaves cordato-rotundate, membranous, 

 apex acute or very shortly acuminate, margins subentire 

 or minutely denticulate, upper side with sparse thick hairs, 

 lower one glabrous sparsely scaled; pairs of nerves 5 — 7, 

 the lowest pair with rather strong transverse nerflets 

 downward; 17. — 31 by 17^ — 36 cM.; petioles stout, glabrous, 

 10—42 cM. long, 0.5—0.6 cM. in diam., with large pith 

 in transversal lamels, as have the branchlets, striate; 

 panicles terminal, pyramidate, 15 — 30 cM. long and wide; 

 peduncles 10 — ^15 cM. ; bracts lanceolate, Ys — IV2 ^^• 

 long, 0.05—0.1 cM. broad; pedicels slender, 0.2—1 cM.; 

 calyx membranous, glabrous, 0.5 cM. wide, 0.6 cM. long, 

 5-ribbed, 5-cleft halfway down; lobes deltoid, acute; enlarged 

 in fruit up to 0.8—1.5 cM., the lobes 0.5—0.8 cM. broad, 

 including the drupe; corolla glabrous, tube 1 — 1.4 cM. long, 

 very narrow in the lower, subinfundibuliform in the upper 

 part; lobes elHptical, 0.6—0.8 cM. long; stamens inserted 

 in the throat, with the shortly bifid style 3V3— SVa cM. 

 exsert: ovary glabrous, 4-lobed; fruit deeply 4-lobed, gla- 

 brous, 0.-5 cM. long, 0.8 cM. in diam., included in the calyx. 



