Clerodendron. 305 



Java: Horspeld in H. A. R.-T. sub no. 049915. 

 Its affinity is with C. Blumeanum var. «, but its calyx is 

 much longer and the corolla-limb broader. 



63. C. utakwense Wernham, Rep. Bot. Woll. exp. 

 Transact. Linn. See. Bot. IX. I, 137 (1916). - A shrub; 

 branchlets more or less quadrangular, glabrous; leaves 

 large, elliptical-ovate, base rotundate or somewhat cordate; 

 8—20 by 7—16 cM.; petioles 1 cM. in the upper to 14 

 cM. in the lower leaves; panicles large, 20 cM. long and 

 wide; calyx 2-lipped, 1.6 cM.; lower lip broadly ovate, 

 upper one lanceolate-acuminate; corolla glabrous, dark-red, 

 tube very slender, 2 cM. longer than the calyx; lobes 

 unequal, viz. 2 with a length of 1.5 and a breadth of 

 0.7 cM., and 3 of a length of 1 and a breadth of 0.4 cM.; 

 stamens 7 cM. exsert or more. 



Distribution : Dutch-New-Guinea. 



We placed this curious Clerodendron — if it is one at all — 

 in the Sqaamafa-subsection, since Wernham informs us that it 

 has an affinity with C. Bethaneanum. Its 2-lipped calyx, however, 

 may give rise to the founding of a new section; perhaps it 

 belongs to our section Tridens, of which in that case, the 

 diagnosis has to be extended. A final decision is only possible 

 by examining specimina and these we had not to our disposition. 



64. C. speciosissimum Paxt., Mag. Bot. Ill, 217 et 

 271 (1837); Elbert, Med. 's Rijks Herb. Leid. no. 12, 16; 

 Hall f. ibidem, no. 37, 80. — A shrub?; branchlets 

 obscurely tetragonous, hollow, with interpetiolar margins,, 

 with petioles and panicles minutely and softly pubescent; 

 leaves cordato-rotundate, basal sinus V2 — 2 cM. deep, apex 

 acute or shortly acuminate, margins rather distantly dentate, 

 sometimes coarsely, sometimes minutely; with some long 

 and many minute hairs above, minutely tomentose beneath 

 and with some scales; pairs of nerves 7—8; 12— 22V2 by 

 9V2— 21 cM.; petioles 6—26 cM. ; panicles terminal, 17 

 cM. long, 8—12 cM. in diam., peduncles 0—2 cM.; 



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