Clerodendrum umbellatum - Umbelled Glory Bower

Umbelled Glory Bower is a somewhat woody liana, 0.3-4 m, with stem four-edged. Flowers are borne in cymes in leaf-axils, on the 2-5 upper nodes, 2-5 x 3-8 cm, with 11-19 flowers, flower-cluster-stalk 1-9 cm, branches finely velvet-hairy lowermost cymes subtended by leaf-like bracts. Flowers are pleasantly scented, tube 1.2-2.2 cm, with glands, petals 7-13 mm long, with stalkless glands on outer surface, white, with a red spot near throat. Stamens are protruding 2-4 cm, anther 2-3 mm. Flower-stalks are 5-13 mm, sepal-cup funnel-shaped to narrowly bell-shaped, 6-12 mm long, tube 2-4 mm, obconical, hairless to shortly velvet-hairy, green, sepals ovate-triangular to triangular, pointed, 4-9 x 1.5-4 mm, gland-dotted, whitish, occasionally rose-tinged after anthesis. Leaf-stalks are 1-7 cm, hairless, blade ovate, 4-16 x 2.5-11 cm, heart-shaped to flat at base, tip tapering, membranose or leathery, 3-4 veins on either side, upper surface dull to shiny, hairless, finely velvet-hairy, lower surface gland-dotted, margin entire. Fruits are 1-1.3 x 1.1-1.2 cm, 4-lobed, black, shining, subtended by cup-shaped reddish sepal-cup; seeds sunk in a yellow pulp. Umbelled Glory Bower is native to W. Tropical Africa to Ethiopia and Tanzania, cultivated and naturalized in India.