312 Clerodendron. 



part; branchlets rounded, glabrescent; leaves shortly 

 petioled, membranous, oblong-obovate or ovate-lanceolata, 

 base subtruncate or acute and attenuate, apex, sometimes 

 subabruptly, acuminate, margins entire; both surfaces very 

 minutely and sparsely puberulous, glandular below; 9V2 — 30 

 by 3V2 — 10 cM.; petioles 0.3. — 0.9 cM.; pairs of nerves 

 8^ — 10; panicles small, without the corolla 2 cM long and 

 3 cM. wide, terminal, dense, short and broad, few-flowered, 

 with bracts, the rhachis suddenly narrowed on the upper- 

 most clavate internode; pedicels 0.8 — 1 cM.; caZi/jc glabrous, 

 or very minutely puberulous, 5-cleft nearly down to the 

 base, 0.8 cM„ lobes lanceolate, acuminate, 0.7 cM. long; 

 corolla glabrous, or very minutely puberulous, white; tube 

 8—9 cM. long, lobes narrow or spathulate, 1.1 by 0.2 

 cM.; stamens 0.7 cM. exsert; style 0.9 cM. exsert, with 

 shortly bifid stigma. 



Distribution: Borneo! 



The hollow intemodes are inhabited by ants (Colobopsis 

 Clerodendri Emery ^ 



73. C. Ridleyi King et Gamble, Kew Bull., Ill (1908) 

 and Journ, As. Soc. Beng. LXXIV, 4, 840. — A small 

 tree, 5 M. high; branchlets quadrangular, shining; leaves 

 opposite, membranous, elliptic, eUiptic-lanceolate or ovate, 

 caudate-acuminate at apex, rounded or cuneate at base, 

 margins entire; both surfaces glabrous, the lower one pale; 

 pairs of nerves 5—7; 772—20 by 2V2— 7 cM.; petioles 

 1.8—5 cM.; acumen IV2— 3 cM.; panicles terminal, few- 

 flowered, with the peduncle at most 15 cM. long (coroUae 

 included) and 7V2 cM. in diam., peduncles IV2— 2 cM.; 

 bracts leafy, lanceolate, acuminate, glabrous; bracteoles 

 linear, 0.4 cM.; pedicels slender, 0.3—0.8 cM.; flowers 

 white or pale yellow; calyx glabrous, divided nearly to 

 the base, 1.3—2 cM. long; segments narrowly lanceolate, 

 very long acuminate, often with peltate scales (glands, 

 K. et G.). in fruit enclosing the drupe, 4 cM. in diam., 



