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Clerodendrum chinense (Osbeck) Mabb.
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Fl. Per.: Summer.
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Leaf: Decoction is reputedly a remedy for difficult cases of scabies.
Surinam: madan polan, madanpolan.
Sometimes cultivated in our gardens for its handsome, fragrant flowers. The plant spreads by root-suckers, and is naturalized in many parts of the world.
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Clerodendrum fragrans Willd.
Distribution: Tropical and subtropical Asia and America.
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Native in China, widely grown as a medicinal plant in Nepal and elsewhere.
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An erect shrub or undershrub, up to 2 m tall, with quadrangular, pubescent branches. Leaves broadly ovate to subrounded, 8-15 cm long, 7-14 cm broad, hairy, glandular at the base of lamina, coarsely and irregularly dentate, acute; petiole 4-9 cm long. Cymes terminal, corymbose, compact, subsessile. Flowers white to pink, fragrant, c. 2 cm across, shortly pedicelled; bracts foliaceous, oblong or elliptic-lanceolate, acuminate, pubescent, persistent. Calyx campanulate, pubescent, 5-lobed; lobes lanceolate with glands on the margins. Corolla double, salverform; tube 1-1.5 cm long; lobes 5, obovate, spreading. Drupe rarely developed.
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200-2000 m
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Shrubs 0.5-1.2 m tall. Branchlets nearly 4-angled to terete, pubescent when young, glabrescent. Petiole 3-17 cm, pubescent to tomentose; leaf blade broadly ovate to sub-cordate, 9-22 8-21 cm, abaxially pubescent especially on veins and with several large glands near base, adaxially strigose, base truncate, broadly truncate, or subcordate, margin sparsely irregularly dentate, apex acuminate. Inflorescences terminal, dense corymbose cymes; peduncle tomentose; bracts lanceolate, 1.5-3 cm; pubescent, with several large glands. Flowers single or double, fragrant. Calyx 1.5-2.5 cm, deeply 5-lobed, pubescent, with several large glands; lobes linear-lanceolate or lanceolate, 0.7-1.6 cm. Corolla white, pinkish, or red, lobes elliptic or ovate.
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