Amelina.] evil. verbenaceJs. 623 
•5 to 1 in. wide; nerves 2 or 3 pairs; petioles slender, -5 in. long. 
Racemes fulvous tomentose. Flowers large, yellow. Calyx up 
to -2 in. long, pubescent except the glands. Corolla thin, 1-5 in. 
long, puberulous outside. Fruit pear-shaped. Hab. Waste ground, 
roadsides, beneath coconuts, sporadic, Singapore, Gelang. Malacca, 
old cemetery on St. John's Hill. Negri Sembilan, Bukit Tangga 
Pass, roadside. Perak (Scortechini). Tringganu, sea-shore. Dis¬ 
trib. India, Java, Borneo. 
I have great doubts as to this being a native here. It occurs sporadically 
as a shrub, and I have never seen any trace of flowers or fruit, at least south 
of Tringganu. 
(2) G. villosa Roxb. Hort. Beng. 46; FL Ind. iii. 86; Gamble, 
Lc. 824. 
Shrub or small tree, villous, spines -5 in. long. Leaves mem¬ 
branous ovate sub-acute, base round or cuneate, sparsely short- 
hairy above, densely stellate-tomentose beneath pale, 1 to 3 in. 
long, 1 to 2 in. wide; petioles about 1 in. long. Racemes fulvous 
tomentose, 1 to 2 in. long with leafy caducous bracts. Corolla 
narrow part of tube, -5 in. long, dilate part 1 in. long. Drupe 
sub-globose, 1 in. long, yellow pulpy. Hab. Common near the 
sea and in low woods inland, Singapore, Chan Chu Kang; Gelang. 
Pahang. Kwala Pahang; Temerloh (Foxworthy). Malacca, Alor 
Gajah (Derry); Selandor. Perak, Changkat Serdang (Wray). 
Penang Hill (Philipps). Kelantan, Kwala Lebir (Gimlette). 
Perlis, Kanga. Lankawi (Curtis). Distrib. Nicobars, Malaya. 
Native names: B'longoh; Bulanggan; Bulang Gaj ah; Bulang 
Kechil. Use: Fruit in syrup for consumption, and rubbed on 
the body for rheumatism. 
(3) G. Hystrix Schultes in Kurz, Journ. As. Soc. xxix. (2), p. 81. 
Scandent shrub, strongly spiny. Leaves elliptic sub-coriaceous, 
top blunt, base gradually narrowed, glabrous on both sides, paler 
beneath, 3 to 4 in. long, 2 in. wide; petioles 75 in. long. Flowers 
in a pendulous strobilate cone, 2 to 3 in. long, of broad ovate 
mucronate dull red bracts. Corolla large, yellow. Fruit about 
1 in. long, yellow. Hab. Singapore Garden Road, Tanglin, prob¬ 
ably an escape here. Kelantan, Kampong Kota (Gimlette). 
Distrib. Siam, Tenasserim, Philippines. Native name: Duri 
Bulongan. Use: Fruit mixed with lime applied to the throat 
for cough. 
8. CLERODENDRON, Linn. 
Shrubs or small trees (sometimes climbing). Leaves opposite, 
rarely whorled, simple or lobed. Flowers usually showy, white, 
yellow or red in axillary cymes or terminal panicles. Calyx cam- 
panulate, 5-lobed, often enlarged in fruit. Corolla salver-shaped 
or funnel-shaped; limb oblique, usually 2-lipped, lobes 5- Stamens 
4, didynamous long exsert; filaments filiform; anther-cells parallel. 
