592 CXI. vERBENACEiE. (C. B. Clarke.) [Glerodendron. 



Clerodendron. The Monlmeiu material has smaller, less toothed, leaves, aad has more 

 pubescence and glands than the Chela plants. 



*** Panicles terminal, elongate, conspicuously hracteate ; calyx sub- 

 truncate. 



11. C. serratuxn, Spreng. Syst. ii. 758; shrubbj, leaves subsesBile 

 oblong or elliptic acuminate serrate, pedicels densely pubescent. Don Prodr. 

 103 ; Wall. Cat. 1809 ; Sam. in Trans, linn. Soc. xvii. 187 ; Sehauer in 

 DC. Prodr. li. 664; Dalz. Sf Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 200; Wight le. t. 1472; 

 Brand. For. Fl. 364 ; Kwz For. Fl. ii. 267. C. ternifolium, Don Prodr. 

 103. 0. macropbyllum, Bot. Mag. t. 2536 ; Beich. Fl. Focot. t. 209 ; Sehauer 

 I. c. 674. 0. omatum, Wall. Cat. 1811 ; Sehauer I. c. 675. 0. herbaceum, 

 Wall. Cat. 1815; Sehauer I. c. 675. 0. ewaeatum, Twrcz.in Bull . Soc. Imp. 

 Nat. Mosc. 1863, ii. 221. Volkameria serrata, Jjinn. Mant. 90 ; Boxb. Fl. 

 Ind. iii. 62. V. herbacea, Boxb. Sort. Beng. 46. 



From the Himaiaza, east of the Sutlej, to Cbylow and Tenassbbim, alt. CMOOO 

 ft., frequent ; very common in Bengal. 



Stems usually 2-8 ft., simple, hardly woody, being burnt annually in the jungle 

 fires ; when more than a year old becoming branched, more or less hairy or glabrate. 

 Leaves usually some of them teruate, commonly 6 by 2 in., narrowly obovate-oblong 

 or subelliptic, base cuneate, mature glabrate puberulous pubescent or (in some S. 

 Indian examples) closely villous on the lamina beneath ; petiole 0— ^ in. Panicle 6 

 by 1 in., sublinear, or 10 by 5 in. subpyramidal, pubescent often villous, branches 

 and pedicels patently shortly hairy ; bracts J— 1| in., from obovate to lanceolate, 

 pubescent, subpersistent, often coloured ; pedicels 0-i in. Calyx J in., cup-sbaped, 

 pubescent or puberulous, limb very shortly 5-Iobed, slightly enlarged in fruit. Corollx 

 nearly glabrous without, hairy at the base of the stamens, from pnrplish-blue and 

 white to nearly white ; tube ^J in., narrow-cylindrie ; mouth oblique, 2-lipped ; 

 lobes J-| in., oblong or elliptic. Drupe J by ^-\ in., succulent, purple-black, 4-1-pyrened. 

 — In the form C. herhaceum. Wall., the panicle is cylindric dense subspicate ; in C. 

 omatmn. Wall, (only seen from Pegu), the panicle is diffuse, slender, ^unusually 

 glabrous. 



Vab. Wallichii ; leaves large often shortly petioled, panicle large pyramidal open 

 pubescent, bracteoles prominent lanceolate, calyx truncate or very nearly so. C. 

 farinosum, Wall. Cat. 1810 [not Volkameiia farinosa, Moxb.). C. divaricatum. Jack in 

 Mai. Misc. i. 2, and in Hook. Bot. Misc. ii. 89 ; Sehauer I. e. 674. C. javanicum, 

 Walp. Rep. iv. 113. — Eastern India • from Sikkim and Assam to Malacca, common. 

 Sistrib. Sumatra, Java, Cambodia. — The upper leaves (at least) in some examples of 

 this are quite entire. 



12. C. venosum, Wall. Cat. 1807 ; arboreous, leaves opposite petioled 

 elliptic acuminate glabresoent, panicle often farinose-tomeutose. Volkameria 

 farinosa, Boxb. Sort. Beng. 46, and FL Ind. iii. 64, not C. farinosum. Wall. 

 -^Volkamerise sp., Griff. Itin. Notes, 70, n. 1082. Clerodendron n. 30, Serb. 

 Ind. Or. S.f. Sf T. 



Khasia Mis., alt. 4000 ft. ; Mamloo, Griffith (Kew Distrib. n. 6052) ; Cherra, 

 S.f.^T.,ko. 



A tree (Roxburgh), 40 ft., with well-marked trunk (Clarke). Leaves (none ter- 

 nate) 7 by 3 in., base attenuate; petiole ^-1 in. (or uppermost leaves sessile). 

 Panicle 8 by 5 in., braehiate, branches divaricate; rachis acutely quadrangular; 

 bracts 1-2 in., ovate, acuminate, leaf-like ; bracteoles J in., linear-oblong, persistent, 

 farinose-tomentose without spreading hairs ; pedicels secund. Calyx \ in., truncate, 

 glabrescent. Corolla nearly as of C. serrata, but with a greenish-white tinge. Drupe 

 nearly as of C. serrata. 



**** Panicles peduncled, of \ or more heads, axillary or sometimes 

 pseu do- terminal. 



