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4. PREMNA, Linn. 
Calyx minute, campanulate, shortly toothed. Corolla-tube a narrow 
funnel, with a ring of hairs inside ; lobes 4, round, spreading, subequal. 
Stamens 4, inserted high up in the tube ; filaments very short; 
anthers round, just exserted from the tube. Ovary 4-locellate ; ovules 
solitary ; style filiform ; stigma bifid. Fruit a small drupe, with a 4- 
celled bony endocarp. — Shrubs or trees, with opposite simple leaves and 
copious minute flowers in ample corymbs. Distrib. Tropics of the 
Old World. Species 40. 
1. P. serratifolia, Linn. ; Scheme?' in DC. Prod. xi. 632. A shrub 
or small tree, glabrous except the panicle, in shaded woods sometimes 
subscandent {P. scandens, Bojer, Hort. Maur. 257). Leaves short- 
petioled, round or broad-oblong, 4-9 in. long, acute or obtuse, sub- 
coriaceous, usually entire (P. integ?'ifolia , Linn. P. divaricata , Wall. ; 
DC. Prod. xi. 633). Flowers numerous, minute, in terminal corymbs 
2-4 in. broad, with glabrous or pilose branches ; bracts minute, lanceo- 
late. Calyx i n * l° n g 5 limb sometimes obscurely bilabiate ; teeth 
deltoid. Corolla-tube twice the length of the calyx ; limb greenish- 
yellow, with 4 round subequal lobes. Drupe purple, juicy, glabrous, the 
size of a small pea. 
Mauritius, Rodriguez and Seychelles, frequent in woods and thickets, both 
near the shore and amongst the hills. China to Madagascar and Zambesi-land. 
Bois Bureau sauvage. 
5. CLERODENDRON, Linn. 
Calyx-tube campanulate ; teeth 5, usually short, deltoid. Corolla 
with a narrowly funnel-shaped tube longer than the calyx, and 5 obo- 
vate or obovate-oblong subequal or unequal spreading lobes. Sta- 
mens 4, didynamo us, usually exserted from the corolla. Ovary 4- 
eelled; ovules solitary in the cells; style filiform; stigma bifid. 
Fruit a small 2-4 lobed drupe, girt by the accrescent calyx, with 2-4 
bony pyrenes. — Shrubs or trees, with opposite simple leaves, the copious 
flowers mostly in terminal corymbs. Distrib. Species about 80 ; 
tropical, mainly in the Old World. 
Inflorescence corymbose. 
Calyx-teeth obscure. Leaves variable, cuneate at 
the base. 
Corolla-lobes obovate-oblong 
Corolla-lobes obovate 
Calyx-teeth large. Leaves round-cordate . . . . 
Inflorescence a thyrsuid panicle 
1. C. HETEROPHYLLUM. 
2. C. LACINIATUM. 
* C. FRAGRANS. 
* C. SERRATUM. 
1. C. heterophyllum, B. Br. ; Schemer in DC. Prod. xi. 660. A 
low much-branched shrub, with puberulent terete ashen-grey branch- 
lets. Leaves petioled, membranous, acute, glabrous, 2-4 in. long, 
varying from oblong to lanceolate and linear, narrowed at the base. 
Flowers in close terminal corymbs 2-4 inches across ; pedicels in., 
