Descriptions of Malayan Plants. 



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A shrub from 3 to 6 feet in height, erect, little branched ; 

 stem four-sided, villous. Leaves opposite, petiolate, cor- 

 date, acuminate, very entire, softly tomentose. Panicle ter- 

 minal, oppositely trichotomous, erect, with leaf-like bracts. 

 Calyx five parted, tomentose, lacinise ovate, acute, erect, 

 with reflexed margins. Corolla tomentose without, tube as 

 long as the calyx, limb 5-parted, spreading, secund, laciniae 

 nearly equal, crisped at the margin. Stamina exsert, hori- 

 zontally deflexed to each side. Style erect, as long as the 

 stamina. Stigma bifid. Calyx of the fruit flat, enlarged, 

 fleshy and white. Berry from one to four-seeded, according 

 to the number that abort. 



This species approaches nearest to the C. infortunatum, 

 but is abundantly distinguished by the softness of the leaves 

 which are larger and more deeply cordate, by the compara- 

 tive shortness of the tube of the corolla and by the white 

 calyx of the fruit. 



Besides this species I have met with another in various 

 parts of these Islands and particularly at Acheen, which has 

 been figured in Andrews' Repository, under the name of 

 Clerodendrum pyramidale. It is a large shewy plant. A still 

 more beautiful species, and perhaps the most elegant of 

 the whole genus is the C. nutans, so named by my friend 

 Dr. Wallich, Superintendent of the Botanic Garden at Cal- 

 cutta, who received it from the North Eastern frontier of 

 Bengal. I found it not uncommon at Pulo Pinang, and this 

 is not the only instance in which I have had occasion to 

 observe a coincidence between the plants of these distant 

 countries. This species is characterised as follows :• — 



C. Nutans, Wall. Foliis lanceolatis acuminatis glabris, 

 paniculis longissimis terminalibus nutantibus, pedunculis re- 

 motis divaricatis paucifloris. 



These panicles or racemes hang gracefully from the ex- 

 tremity of the branches ; the flowers are white, not nume- 

 rous, the peduncles or primary divisions of the panicle being 



