310 Clerodendron. 



70. C. longiflorum Decne., Nouv. Ann. Mus. Par. Ill, 

 400 (1834); Schauer, DC. Prodr. XI. 670; Forbes, Wand. 

 Nat. f. Mai. Arch. II, 226; Miquel (CI. spec). Fl. Ind. 

 bat. II, 884; Palle in Lorentz, Nova Guinea VIII, II, 402; 

 iHlemsleg. Chall. Rep. Bot. I, 110 and 176; Hall. f. Med. 

 *s Rijks Herb. Leid. no. 37, 76; Miquel,, Ann. Mus. L.— B. 

 Ill, 251; Spanoghe, Linnaea XV, 329. — A shrub?; 

 branchlets obtusely quadrangular, minutely puberulous, 

 glabrescent; leaves chartaceous or somewhat membranous, 

 ovate, both ends attenuate; both sides entirely glabrous 

 or lower one with some short hairs; margins entire; pairs 

 of nerves 6 — ^8; 7 — ^21 by 4Va^ — 12 cM.; petioles glabrous, 

 iVs— 6 cM.; panicles terminal, subumbelliform, dense, 

 5 Vs.— 13 cM. long, 10^ — 13 cM. in diam. ; branchlets stout, 

 sparsely puberulous or glabrous; bracts ovate-lanceolate,' 

 leafy, caducous; pedicels 0.2—0.7 cM.; calyx usually 

 membranous, (0.5— )0. 7— 1.1 cM., glabrous or nearly so, 

 5-cleft halfway down, lobes broadly ovate, acuminate; 

 corolla glabrous; tube rather stout, 7 — 10 cM.; lobes ovate, 

 somewhat pubescent without, 0.5 — 0.9 by 0.3 — 0.6 cM.; 

 stamens and the shortly bifid style 2 cM. exsert; stamens 

 inserted in the throat; ot;ary glabrous; drape black-purple, 

 seated on the spreading, glabrous, enlarged calyx, which 

 is dark-purple and has a diametre of 2.1—2.7 cM., the 

 lobes being coriaceous and broadly deltoid. 



Timor: Teysmann no. 8943, Kupang. — Decaisne? in 

 H. L.— B. sub no. 908.265—1154. - Zippel in H. L.-B. 

 sub nos. 908.265—1153 and 908.266-37. — Spanoghe 

 in H. L.-B. sub nos. 908.265—1158 and 7908.266— 112 

 (Kupang). 



New-Guinea: Branderhorst no. 74, Dutch-N.-G. - 

 Zippel in H. L— B. sub no. 908.266—648. 



Distribution: Timor!, Luzon (Miquel), New-Guinea! 



According to Merrill (Bur. Gov. Lab. Bull. no. 35, 63) this 

 species does not occur in the Philippines. In his opinion 



