CI,eroden(iron.] cxi. verbbnace^. (C. B. Clarke.) 689 



XIT. CI.E&.OBENDRON, Zinn. 



Trees or shrubs, sometimes rambling. Leaves opposite, rarely 3-4-nate, 

 simple, occasionally lobed. Cymes axillary or in terminal panicles, often 

 leafy below ; bracts prominent or small. Calyx campanulate, truncate or 

 5-toothed, or sub-5-partite, persistent often accrescent or coloured. Corolla- 

 tube slender, cylindrio, usually long filiform ; limb 5-fid, .spreading, more or 

 less oblique. Stamens 4; anthers long-exserted, cells parallel. Ovary 

 imperfectly 4-celled, 4-ovuled ; style filiform, shortly bifid. Drupe globose, 

 succulent, more rarely nearly dry, 4-grooved, separating into 4 pyrenes of 

 which 1-3 are often suppressed. Seeds oblong. — Species 70, in the warmer 

 regions of both Hemispheres, chiefly in the Eastern. 



Clerodendron aculeatum, Linn, (under Volkameria), a native of America, is culti- 

 vated in Indian gardens ; it is allied to C. inerme, but has axillary spines. C. fragrant. 

 Vent., a Chinese species, is extensively cultivated, piirtictilarly the double-flowered 

 variety ; it is allied to C. bracteatum. C. canescens, Wall., also Chinese, and closely 

 allied to the last, is occasionally cultivated. 



Subgenus 1. Euclerodendron. Corolla-tube less than 1^ in. 

 * Peduncles mainly axillary, or panicle lax leafy below, 



1. C. Inerme, Gaertn. Fruct. i. 271, t. 57, fig. 1; leaves obovate or 

 elliptic subobtnse entire glabrate, CHlyx i-J in. minutely toothed, in fruit 

 somewhat enlarged subtruncate closely embracing the base of the obovoid 

 drupe. Roxb.M.Ind.^i.&S; Wall. Cat. 1788, chiefly. Schauer in DC. 

 Frodr. xi. 660 ; Dalz. §■ Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 200 ; Bedd. For. Man. 174 ; Brand. 

 For. Fl. 363 ; Kurz For. Fl. ii. 266. Volkameria, Linn. Fl. Zeyl. 231.— 

 Bheede Sort. Mai. v. t. 49. 



India and Cetlon near the sea, from BonDbay to Tenasserim. 



A stragg-ling shrub, 3-7 ft.; shoots grey-pubescent. Leaves opposite, rarely 

 ternate, |-1J in., young somewhat grey-pubescent, base cuneate ; petiole | in. 

 Peduncles J-l J in., all axillary, 3-7-fld. ; bracts jlj in., linear j pedicels J-J in. Calyx 

 grey-pubernlons or glabrate. Corolla white ; tube f in., glabrate; lobes ; in., oblong. 

 Drupe i by J in., spongy, hardly succulent, smooth hardly sulcate, separating into 4 

 woody pyrenes. 



2. C. neriifollum, Wall. Cat. 1789; leaves elliptic acute or linear- 

 oblong entire glabrate, calyx ^ in. shortly toothed, in fruit enlarged sub- 

 patent striate distinctly toothed or lobed. Schauer in DC. Prodr. xi. 660. 

 C. inerme, Benth. Fl. Honglc. 271, and Fl. Austral, v. 61 ; Schauer I. c, in 

 great part ; Wall. Cat. 1788, type sheet. C. inerme var. neriifolia, Kurz 

 For. Fl. ii. 266. Volkameria neriifolia, Boxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 64. — Bumph. 

 Serb. Amb. v. t. 46 (drupe very immature). 



Maiat Peninsula near the sea, from Chittagong to Malacca, frequent. — 

 DiSTBlB. Malaya, China, Australia, Polynesia. 



Leaves mostly ternate, 3^ by ij in. ; or, in the extreme type form of Koxburgb, 

 sublinear, 4^ by ^ in. Cymes and drupe rather larger than in C. inerme. Calyx 

 often J in. diam. in fruit. — Otherwise as C. inerme, of which this may be a var., as 

 Bentham and Kurz have treated it. 



Vae. macroca/rpa. Wall. ms. ; drupe IJ by J in. — Martaban ; Wallich. Eangoon ; 

 M'Zelland. 



3. C. disparifolium, Blume Bijd. 809; leaves oblong or elliptic 

 acuminate siibentire glabrate, calyx \ in. deeply 5-lobed nearly glabrous. 

 Schauer in DC. Prodr. xi. 672; Bassk. Betzia, i. 57. 0. acuminatum. Wall. 



