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asally; petiole, 0.4 to 2 cm long, slender, leaf scars prominently somewhat raised;
inflorescences, axillary, supra-axillary or pseudoterminal, 3- to 12-flowered cymose
clusters; peduncle, 1 to 4 cm long, slender, subglabrate; pedicels, 3 to 6 mm long;
bracteoles, small, few; calyx, 4 to 6 mm long, campanulate, subtruncate and minutely 5-
denticulate, enlarging somewhat as fruit matures; corolla, up to 3.5 cm long, hypocrateri-
form or slender-tubular, 5-lobed, lobes, 5 to 8 mm long, ovate, subequal, somewhat
expanded distally, bluntly acute at apex, glabrous white or pinkish along tube, fragrant;
stamens 4, 1 cm long, exserted, inrolled in bud, filaments red, purple or pinkish;
anthers, yellow; style, exserted to 20 mm, purple to rich pink distally, paler proximally;
fruit, about 1 to 1.5 cm in diameter, obovoid, drupaceous, separating into four 1-seeded
nutlets, yellow-green to dark-brown, turning black at maturity, subtended by a indurate,
striate-venose calyx; seeds, oblong. Abundant on limestone cliffs and pinnacles, forming
luxuriant curtains near edge of escarpment and on parts of coastal strip in Anetan
District; occasionally a planted ornamental. Fragrant flowers used in garlands; leaves
reportedly pounded and used as a cure for leprosy in the past (cure reportedly received in
a dream). 2, 3(58664), 4(103N, 166N), 5, 6, 7(27817).
Clerodendrum ,paniculatum L. "pagoda flower"
Recent introduction. E. Trop. Asia. Rare. Perennial shrub, up to 1 to 2 m high,
with medullose to hollow, bluntly quadrangular branchlets, the nodes with a broad band
of hairs; leaves, 4 to 15 (-40) by 7 to 20 (-38) cm, opposite, broadly ovate, prominently
3 to-7-lobed or the uppermost ones entire, base cordate, the lobes acute to short-acu-
minate and remotely dentate to crenate or entire, thin chartaceous to membranaceous,
minutely strigillose to glabrous above, squatnose with peltate scales beneath; inflorescen-
ces, axillary or terminal, many-flowered panicles, up to 45 cm long and broad; pedicels,
4 to 15 mm long, filifortn, reddish; calyx, 3 to 5 mm long, campanulate, deeply-divided,
red to orange-red; corolla, hypocrateriform or narrow-tubular, the tube, up to 2 cm long,
slender, the limb spreading to 1 cm across, orange-red to vivid scarlet (rarely white),
puberulent; stamens and style exserted 2.5 to 3.5 cm beyond corolla throat; fruit,
drupaceous, greenish-blue to black at maturity. Planted ornamental. 5, 6(235), 7.
Clerodendrum thomsoniae Balf. f. "bleeding heart"
Recent introduction. W. Africa. Rare. Perennial shrub or climbing vine, up to 3
m or higher, with slender, distally 4-angled and terete proximal branchlets and twining
older branches; leaves, 5 to 15 cm long and 2.5 to 7 cm wide, elliptic to elliptic-ovate,
acute to short-acuminate, base subcordate to subacute or rounded, glabrate on both
surfaces or puberulent on venation; petioles, 8 to 30 mm long; inflorescences, terminal or
--disra~aXlllary,cymo~usters, to i2--by i 3 cm-uncies, 2.StoE5TICij5
slender; pedicels, 7 to 16 mm long, slender; calyx, 2 to 2.7 cm long, deeply 4- to 5-
lobed, lobes sharply acute, pale yellow-green, becoming white or pinkish in flower, redviolet
in fruit, prominently veined; corolla, 2.2 cm long, hypocrateriform or tubular, the