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evil. VerbeNaceJE. [Clerodendroit. 
Ovary 4-celled, cells i-ovuled; style filiform; stigma short, bifid. 
Fruit a succulent rarely dry drupe separating into 4 pyrenes. 
Calyx often accrescent red. Endocarp bony. Seed oblong or 
pyriform. Species 100 or more, tropics generally. 
Cymes axillary. 
Cymes few-flowered, numerous; fruit dry 
Drupes pulpy. 
Cymes in dense heads with conspicuous red 
bracts ...... 
Cymes panicled terminal. 
Tree glabrous; panicles lax; flowers sub-regular 
yellow ...... 
Panicles leafy erect; corolla under 1 in. long, 
salver-shaped. Shrubs scabrid hispid . 
Panicles long spike-like pendulous; flowers 
white. 
Calyx-lobes lanceolate acute 
Calyx-lobes broad ovate . 
Panicles erect dense, racemiform. 
Bush. Leaves serrate; flowers cream, lower 
lip blue ...... 
Panicles broad, spreading; flowers white. 
Shrub. Leaves ovate velvety . 
Panicles thyrsoid erect red or orange, many- 
flowered ; stems bare below, shrubby. 
Leaves entire, oblong. 
Stem fistular; flowers I in. long 
Stem fistular; flowers '5 in. long 
Leaves entire ovate cordate not glandular . 
Leaves lobed cordate, glandular beneath 
Corolla over 1 to 3 in. long, funnel-shaped, 
white. 
Leaves narrow lanceolate whorled 
Leaves elliptic or ovate opposite 
(1) C. inerme 
(2) C. deflexum 
(3) C. disparifolium 
(4) C. lankawiense 
(5) C. penduliflorum 
( 6 ) C. umbratile 
(7) C. serratum 
( 8 ) C. viliosum 
(9) C. myrmecophilum 
(10) C. breviflorum 
(11) C. squamatum 
(12) C. paniculatum 
(13) C. siphonanthus 
(14) C. Ridleyi 
(1) C. inerme Benth. FI. Hongkong, 271. C. neriifolium 
Gamble, lx. 827 ( not of Wallich). 
Small twiggy bush about 3 ft. tall. Leaves membranous, 
elliptic acute or rounded at tip, base narrowed, glabrous (adult), 
i*5 to 3-5 in. long, 75 to 175 in. wide; petioles -25 to -5 in. long; 
nerves fine, inconspicuous. Cymes axillary few-flowered. Flowers 
in threes on the branch-ends. Calyx campanulate enlarged in 
fruit. Corolla white, tube slender, eylindric, 1 in. long, villous 
inside, lobes about *25 in. long. Stamens long exsert, dark pink. 
Drupe obovoid, -5 in. long, endocarp spongy; pyrenes 4. Hab. 
Sea-coasts, common, in tidal mud. Singapore, Tanjong Katong; 
Changi; Pulau Ubin. Johor, Pinerong; Tanjong Kupang. 
Pahang, Pekan. Malacca (Maingay, Griffith). Perak, Krian 
(Scortechini). Kelantan, Kamposa. Penang, Batu Feringhi 
(Curtis). Lankawi. Perlis, Kanga, Distrib. Burma, Malay isles 
to Australia and Polynesia. Native name : Pawan. 
(2) C. deflexum Wall. PI. As. Rar. iii. 10, t. 215. 
A little-branched shrub 2 to about 4 ft. tall, pubescent. Leaves 
