598 CH. VEBBBNACsa. (C. B. Clarke.) [^Caryopteris. 



distinct, often 20-60-fld., pubescent or glabrate. Corolla pubescent, deep red. Drupe 

 pubescent ; calyx hardly accrescent. — Otherwise much resembling C, grata : the whole 

 panicle usually is red j but in C. grata it is often more or less red. 



XVII, GIiOSSOCAR'S'A, Wall. 



Grrey-tomentose, scandeut shrabs. Leaves opposite, ovate, shortly 

 petioled, entire. Cymes many-fld., in a dense terminal corymbose panicle ; 

 flowers sessile ; bracts small. Calya^ campannlate, 5-toolhed, hardly accres- 

 cent. Corolla-lube narrow-cylindTic ; limb 2-lipped, 5-lobed. Stamens 4, 

 didynamons ; anthers long-exserted, ovate ; cells parallel. Ovary imperfectly 

 4-celled, 4-ovaled ; style filiform, 2-fid. Capsule oblong, somewhat widened 

 upwards, exserted, 4-valved ; valves narrowly obovoid, substipitate, margins 

 inflexed holding the seed, one produced downwards as a 1-sided wing. Seeds 

 narrowly oblong, erect. — Species 3, an Australian and the following. 



1. G. Iiinnaei, Benth. in Gen. PI. ii. 1158 ; leaves ovate or obovate 

 snbcordate mature glabrescent, capsule grey strigose. Clerodendron Linnaei, 

 Thioaites Enum. 243. 



Ceyxon, in hot dry places ; Walker, Thtoaites. 



Scandent ; branches pubescent. Leaves Z^ by 1} in., apicnlate ; petiole J in. 

 Corymbs 3 in. diam., grey-tomentose ; bracts J in., elliptic, or some of the lower 

 foliaceous. Calyx ^ in., or in fruit J in., limb shallowly roundly lobed. Corolla 

 strigose, white ; tube \ in., slender ; lobes ^-^ in. J'ilaments exserted 1 in. Capsule 



2 . G. mollis, Wall. Cat. 1741 ; leaves ovate mature softly pubescent 

 benea.th, capsule patently grey-hairy. Griff, in Calc. Joum. Nat. Hist. iii. 

 366; Sehauer in DC.Prodr. xi. 626; Kurz For.Fl. ii. 257. 



MoTJLMEiN J Griffith (Kew Distrib. n. 6017), Lobh. 



Closely resembling (?. Linneei, but generally more hairy ; branchlets and panicles 

 densely softly grey-villous. Capsule rather longer, \ in. 



XYIII. KVnXZSNOP'S'BAnilS, Wall. 



A large, rambling shrub ; branches grey-tomentose. Leaves opposite, 

 ovate, entire. Cymes lax, in large, pyramidal, axillary or terminal panicles; 

 flowers very small ; bracts minute. Calyx minute, 4-fid ; greatly accrescent 

 in fruit, membranons, 4-winged, utricular. Corolla-tube cylindric ; limb 

 oblique, 4-fid. Stamens 4 ; anthers exserted, ovate ; cells parallel. Ovary 

 2-celled, 4-ovuled ; style filiform, shortly 2-fid. Capsule small, obovoid, 

 included, 4- valvular ; valves obovoid-oblong, margins inflexed holding the 

 seed. Seeds pendulous, subtriquetous. 



H. brachiata, Wall. Cat. 774; Griff, in Calc. Joutn. Nat. Sist. iii. 

 365 ; Sehauer in DC. Prodr. xi. 626 ; JBocq. Rev. Verben. 113, 1. 11, fig. 1-10 ; 

 £^urz For. Fl. ii. 258. 



Peoxj; Wallich. — Distkib. Ava. — In N. and Central India cultivated. 



Leaves 3^ by i in., acuminate, base obtuse or rhomboid, mature glabrate above, 

 grey-tomentose or pubescent beneath ; petiole J in. Panicles 12 by 8 in., leafy below, 

 grey-tomentose. Calyx j^ in. Corolla j in., pubescent, white. Capsule \-^ in., ful- 

 vous-hirsute; utricle j-^ in., ovoid, acutely 4-winged, mouth minute. 



