306 Clerodendron. 



usually without leaves or with 2 small leaves below; 

 bracts caducous, linear, 0.2 cM.; pedicels 0.5—0.7 cM. 

 with 2 minute, linear bracteoles; ca/yx sparsely pubescent, 

 especially in the lower part, campanulate, 0.6—0.8 cM., 

 5-cleft about halfway down, lobes narrowly deltoid, acute, 

 0.3—0.5 cM.; corolla densely and minutely puberulous; 

 tube slender, 2V3-3Va cM., lobes ovate, 1.3 by 0.7 cM.; 

 stamens and style V/^ cM. exsert; stigma shortly bifid; 

 fruit glabrous, 1 cM. long, 1.2 cM. in diam., four-lobed; 

 fruiting calyx slightly enlarged. 



Distribution: Java!, Madura! 



C. Horspeldii is closely allied to it, but distinctly different 

 by its larger calyx and its shorter corolla-tube. 



Section II. Siphonantus L. 



65. C. Siphonantus R. Br. in Ait. Kew. ed. II, IV. 

 65 (1812): Williams, Bull. Herb. Boiss. ser. II T. V, 432; 

 Schauer. DC, Prodr. XI, 670; Forbes and Hemsley, Fl. 

 sin. II. 262; Hook, f., Fl. Br. Ind. IV. 595; King and 

 Gamble, Journ. As. Soc, Beng. LXXIV, 4, 839; Koord. 

 Exk. fl. v. Java III, 137; Miq. Fl. Ind. bat. II, 883 and 

 suppl. I, 243; Hassk.. 2e Cat.- 's Lands PI. tuin, 136; 

 Maxim. Bull. Ac. Imp. Sci. St. Pet. XXXI, 83. - C. 

 verticillatum D. Don, Prodr. Fl. Nep. 102 (1825).- 

 An erect shrub, 1.3—2.6 M. high; branchlets obtusely 

 quadrangular, glabrous; leaves opposite or in whorles of 

 3—5 leaves; lanceolate, shortly petioled, acuminate at both 

 ends, margins entire or somewhat denticulate; recurved; 

 both surfaces glabrous; membranous; pairs of nerves 8, 

 the nerves straight, very short, at an angle of nearly 90° 

 with the prominent midrib, joining looped intramarginal 

 nerves which start from the base; 10 — 30 cM. long, 1—3 

 cM, broad, petioles 0.2—1 cM.; panicles terminal, leafy, 

 reaching 20—45 cM. in length and 10—15 cM. in diam.; 



