594 CXI. VBRBBNACE^. (C. B. Clarke^) [Glerodendron. 



Leaves 6-15 in. diam., teeth usually scarcely f in. deep ; petiole 2-4 in. Panicle 

 often 18 by 12 in., open, red j bracts small. Ooroila nearly glabrous, scarlet j tube 

 f-1 in., filiform ; lobes J in. Drupe ^J in. diam., blue-black ; fruiting calyx enlarged, 

 patent 1| in. diam. 



Vae. urticifolia ; teeth of the leaves ^J in. deep patent all round the leaves. V. 

 urticifolia. Wall. Cat. 1801 ; Schauer I. c. Volkameria urticifolia, Soxi. Ft. Ind. lii. 

 61. — Assam, E. Bengal, Pegu ; WalUch, &c. Distrib. Ava. 



***** Panicles terminal, capitate or corymbose ; leaves beneath not or 

 very obscurely glandular. 



17. C. lasiocepbalum, Clarke; leaves ovate acuminate dentate 

 pixbesceat, panicle snbcapitate, calyx- segments f iu. linear- subulate. 



MiSHMBE ; Ghriffitk (Kew Distrib. n. 6055). 



branches pubescent upwards. Leaves opposite, 10 by \ in., base cuneate or 

 rounded, membranous, sparsely pubescent on both surfaces ; petiole 2 in. Famcle 

 sessile, 2-3 in. diam., dense, depressed-globose, pubescent ; bracts linear. Cahjx 

 divided, nearly to the base ; segments flaccid caudate, pubescent. Corolla not seen. 

 Drape J in. diam., red. 



18. C> Colebrookianum, Walp. Sep. W. 114; leaves shallowly cor- 

 date ovate acute entire mature subglabrate, panicle large spreading, flowers 

 clustered, calyx J— 5 in. Schauer in DC. Prodr. xi. 672 ; Gamble Indian 

 Umbers, 299. 0. glandulosum. Wall. Cat. 1806 ; Lindl. in Bot. Reg. 1844, 



19, in note ; Schauer I. c. 



SiKKiM, Assam, and Khasia Mts., alt. 1-4000 ft., frequent ; M. f. ^ T., &c. 

 MoULMElir ; Parish. Peomb Hiils ; Col. Benson. Sin&apobe ; Lobb. 



A shrub, 4-8 ft. Leaves often 9 in. diam., young puberulous, beneath eglandular 

 or with a few scattered large glands especially near the apex of the petiole ; petiole 

 2-8 in. Panicles 1-2 ft. diam., straggling, pubescent ; flowers very numerous in 

 clusters ; bracts lanceolate, caducous at flower-time. Calyx pubescent, often bearing 

 a few large glands, divided hardly half-way down ; teeth triangular or lanceolate. 

 Corolla nearly glabrous, from rose-purple to white ; tube 1 in. ; lobes J in., elliptic. 

 Drupe J in. diam., blue, pyrenes usually 4; calyx in fruit .J-J in. diam. — C. glandn- 

 losum. Wall., is a specimen fram the Cale. Bot. Garden, with the leaves rather more 

 pubescent, and the bracts persistent. 



Vab. denticulata ; leaves irregularly sinuate denticulate. — Jaintea Hills ; Jowye, 

 Clarke. 



19. C. infortunatum, Oaertn. Frucf. i. 271, t. 57, fig. 1 ; leaves ovate 

 acuminate entire or serrulate mature hairy, panicle open villous, corolla-tube 

 exceeding the eglandular calyx-lobes J in. Lamh. III. t. 544 ; Wall. Cat. 

 1796; Schauer in DC. Prodr. xi. 667; Balz. Sf GHbs.Bomb. F1.2Q0; Wight 

 Ic. 1. 1471 ; Bedd. For. Man. 173, and Anal. PI. xxii. fig. 1 ; Brand.lFor. Fl. 

 363 ; Zurz For. Fl. ii. 267. 0. viscosum. Vent. Jard. Malm. t. 25 ; Bot. 

 Mag. 1. 1805 ; Bot. Eeg. t. 629. 0. cordatum, Bon Prodr. 103 ; Schauer 

 I. c. 674. C. castaneffifolium, Klotzsch in Beis. Pr. Wald. Bot. 102, t. 65. 

 0. caljfciuum, Turcz. in Bull. 80c. Imp. Nat. Mosc. 1863, ii. 222. Volka- 

 meria infortunata, Roxh. Fl. Ind. iii. 59. — Cletodendron, Linn. Fl. Zeyl. 

 232 ; Burm. Thes. Zeyl. 66 ; Rumph. Serb. Amb. iv. t. 49 ; Rheede Hort. 

 Mai. ii. t. 25. 



Throughout India, from Gurwbal and Assam to Ceylon and Singapore, in the 

 warm region ; very common. — Disteib. Malaya. 



A shrub, 4 ft., often gregarious, yellow- or white-villous upwards, sometimes a small 

 tree according to a note in Herb. Wallich. Learns 4-8 in., base cordate or obtuse, 

 varying from round-ovate to broad-oblong, in the Deccan examples usually entire, in 



