Clerodendron.'] 
YERBENACEjE. 
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puberulent ; bracts minute, subulate. Calyx in. long, campanulate, 
with 5 minute cusps. Corolla greenish-white, with obovate-oblong 
divisions quite as long as the tube. Stamens twice long as the limb. 
Drupe the size of a small cherry, white, spongy, juicy. Yolkameria 
angustifolia, Andr. Bot. Rep. t. 554. 
Mauritius, on dry hills of the Pouce range, etc. Also Bourbon. Bois Chenilles. 
Bois Cabis. 
2. C. laciniatum, Balf. jil. A shrub, with terete ashen-grey 
branchlets, minutely puberulent at the top. Leaves petioled, mem- 
branous, glabrous, 2-3 in. long, varying from oblong entire with a 
cuneate base, to rhomboid bipinnatifid with distant long ligulate obtuse 
segments hi. broad. Flowers in close terminal corymbs 2-3 
inches across ; pedicels -i— J- in. long, puberulent. Calyx £ in. long, 
campanulate, truncate, glabrous. Corolla \ in. long, with subequal 
obovate lobes, much shorter than the tube. Filaments twice as long 
as the corolla-limb. 
Rodriguez, not uncommon both on the hill-slopes and in the valleys, Balfour ! 
Endemic. Bois Cabri. 
* G. fragrans, Vent. Jard. Malm. t. 70; Bot. Mag. t. 1834 ; Schauer 
in DC. Prod. xi. 664, a native of China, well known in cultivation, has 
become subspontaneous both in Mauritius and the Seychelles. It has 
tomentose square branchlets, round-cordate large toothed membranous 
leaves pilose on both sides, flowers in dense terminal corymbs, large 
linear squarrose calyx-teeth, bright rose-red fragrant corollas with 5 
round subequal lobes as long as the tube, and short stamens. 
* C. serratum, Spreng. ; Schauer in DC. Prod. xi. 664 ; (C. macro- 
phyllum, Bot. Mag. t. 2536) a native of Tropical Asia, is subspontaneous 
both in Seychelles and Mauritius. It has very large 2-3-nate sessile 
glabrous obovate-oblong serrated leaves, copious cymes arranged in a 
long thyrsoid terminal panicle, a campanulate calyx with 5 short 
deltoid teeth, a whitish corolla with a blue lip and a tube twice as long 
as the calyx and a limb with unequal divisions of which the lowest 
is spreading and twice as long as the tube and stamens an inch long. 
6. VITEXj Linn. 
Calyx small, campanulate or funnel-shaped, accrescent in fruit, 
truncate or shortly 5-toothed. Corolla with a funnel-shaped tube and 
bilabiate limb, with 5 rounded subequal lobes. Stamens 4, didynamous, 
reaching beyond the corolla-limb. Ovary 4-locellate ; ovules solitary in 
the cells ; style filiform, curved ; stigma bifid. Fruit a drupe, girt by 
the persistent calyx, with a 4-celled bony endocarp. — Trees or shrubs, 
