Clerodendron, 299 



bracteole; calyx glabrous, 5-cleft nearly down to. the base, 

 0.4—0.5 (—0.8) cM. long or shorter (Schauer); segments 

 lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, acuminate; shape and dimen- 

 sions apparently rather variable; corolla softly and spar- 

 sely, minutely puberulous; tube somewhat infundibuliform 

 in the upper half, (1.2 cM. Schauer), 1.5— 2.3 cM. long; 

 lobes rather narrow, obtuse, 0.8 cM. long (1.1 cM. Schauer), 

 0.2 cM. broad; stamens and the shortly bifid style 2—3 cM. 

 exsert'; stamens inserted in the throat; anthers 0.2 cM. long; 

 ovary glabrous; fruiting calyx enlarged to 0.8 cM. 



Distribution: Sumatra!, Celebes! Mindanao), Negrosl, 

 Luzon!, Panay, Cebu, Sulu-isl. (Hallier). 



A species, closely allied to C. Bethuneanum, C. Blumeanum 

 and C. squamatum, but distinguished by 'its calyx, which is 

 5-cleft nearly down to the base. 



59. C. Blumeanum Schauer, DC. Prodr. XI, 669 (1847); 

 Koord., Exk. fl. v. Java, III, 138; Kuntze, Rev. Gen. I, 

 505; Hall, f., Med. 's Rijks Herb. no. 37, 78; Miq.. Fl. 

 Ind. bat. II, 881; Valeton, Bull. Dept. Agric. Ind. Neerl. 

 X, 52 — A shrub or undershrub, 1—4 M. high; branchlets 

 with rather indistinct interpetiolar margins, quadrangular, 

 with petioles and panicles softly pubescent; internodes 

 often clavate, with large pith often in transversal lamels; 

 leaves often crowded towards the tips of the branchlets, 

 cordate- or subcordate-ovate or -subrotundate, membra- 

 nous, apex acuminate, sometimes obtuse or even rounded; 

 margins sinuate or undulate, the undulations often 

 mucronulate; pairs of nerves 6—8, the 2 lowest pairs 

 often close to the base; upper side sparsely pubescent, 

 usually with some thick hairs, intermixed with many 

 minute ones; lower one softly and minutely pubescent and 

 with sparse scales; both sides sometimes glabrous or nearly 

 ■ so ; both sides somewhat glandular ; margins usually fim- 

 briate; the nerves in sicco often undulate in consequence 

 of the contraction of the intervenium; 12—24 cM. long, 



