Caryopteris.^ cxi. VKRBBNAOEiE. (C. B. Clarke.) 597 



XYI. CARYOPTEXIXS, Bunge. 



Shrubs, erect or rambling. Leaves opposite, acuminate, tootied or sub- 

 entire, minutely punctate with yellow glistening glands. Cymes small, 

 dense, many -fld., axillary or running into a terminal thyrse ; bracts small. 

 Calyx deeply 5-fid ; segments triangular or lanceolate, somewhat accrescent. 

 Corolla-tube short, cylindric ; limb spreading, middle lobe of the lower lip 

 larger, crisped or (in the typical non-Indian species) fimbriate. Stamens 4, 

 didynamous; anthers exserted, cells divaricate (in the Indian species), con- 

 fluent. Ovary imperfectly 4-celled, 4-ovuled; style filiform, shortly 2- fid. 

 Capsule small, globose, dividing into 4 concave valves with incurved margins 

 holding the seeds. Seeds, oblong, ereet. — Species 5, two N.E. Asiatic and 

 the following. 



Though the genus is near Clerodendron, two of the Indian species are easily dis- 

 tinguished by their very short corolla : the third, C. Walliohiana, has the (Jorolla-tube 

 scarcely J in. The capsule is hardly less succalent than in several species of Cleroden- 

 dron, nor is the incurving of the edges of the valves different from what occurs in 

 that genus. 



1. C- Walllclliana, Schauer in DC. Prodr. xi. 625; leaves elliptic 

 acuminate, cymes collected mostly in terminal thyrses, corolla ^ in., calyx- 

 segments in fruit lanceolate erect 1-3-ribbed. Brand. For. Fl. 370. Volka- 

 meria odorata, Roxh. Sort. Beng. 46. Clerodendron odoratum, Don Prodr. 

 102 ; Wall. Cat. 1812.— Volkameriae sp., Griff. Bin. Nates, 128, n. 504. 



Sttbteopioal Himalaya, alt. 0-4500 ft., from the Punjab to Bhotan; frequent. 



A spreading shrub, 4-12 ft. ; shoots ashy-pubescent or subtomentosev Leaves 4 by 

 IJ in., base cuneate, toothed or nearly entire, ashy-pubescent or puberulous; petiole 

 \ in. Cymes mostly in terminal thyrses 3-5 by 1 in., ashy-pubescent, glandular. 

 Calyx ^ in., in fruit J in. Corolla-tube ^ in., pubescent, glandular; middle lobe of 

 lower lip nearly J in. blue, 4 other lobes about i in., white. Capsule ^— J in. diam., 

 globose, closely pubescent. 



2. C. grata, Benth. in Gen. PI. ii. 1158 ; leaves elliptic acuminate 

 pubescent, cymes mostly axillary small corymbose, corolla ^ in., calyx- 

 segments in fruit subpatent triangular. Clerodendron gratum. Wall. Cat. 

 1813 ; Schauer in DC. Prodr. xi. 674, not of Kurz. 0. foetidnm, Don Prodr. 

 103; Schauer I. c. 672, not of Bunge. Vitex sex-dentata. Wall. Cat. 1759; 

 Schauer I. c. 696. 



KtTMAON; below Nynee Tal, alt. 4000 ft., Thomson, Strachey ^ Wirderlottom. 

 Nepal; Wallich. 



A rambling shrub ; branches pubescent or tomentose. Leaves i^ by If in. (mostly 

 smaller), base rhomboid or almost rounded, toothed or subentire, mature softly pubes- 

 cent or almost villous beneath ; petiole J in. Cymes J-f in., densely pubescent, 3-8- 

 fld., dichotomous, without a common rachis. Calyx ,'5 in., densely pubescent, in 

 fruit J-^ in., membranous, not ribbed. Corolla pubescent, glandular. Capsule J in. 

 diam., globose, nearly glabrous, somewhat ribbed. 



3. C. paniculata, Clarke ; leaves elliptic acuminate mature glabrate, 

 panicles axillary small dense many-fld., corolla \ in., calyx-segmenta in fruit 

 small lanceolate. Clerodendron gratum, Kurz For. PI. ii. 268, not of Wall. 

 — Callicarpa n. 9, Herb. Ind. Or. H.f. ^ T. 



Sttbteopioal Himalaya, alt. 1-4000 ft., frequent ; from E. Nepal, J. D. H., to 

 Mishmee, Griffith (Kew Distrib. n. 6044).— Distbib. Ava. 



A spreading shrub; branches terete, slender, pubescent. Leaves mostly obtuse 01 

 rounded at the base. Panicles axillary, subsessile, \-2\ in., distinctly panicled, rachis 



