Botanical name: Clerodendrum infortunatum    Family: Verbenaceae (Verbena family)
Synonyms: Clerodendrum viscosum, Clerodendrum calycinum

Hill glorybower is a shrub with bark grey and corky; young shoots tawny hairy. Leaves are 8-17 x 6-12 cm, ovate or round, base heart-shaped, margin entire or finely toothed, tip tapering, hairy beneath and woolly above; basally 5-7 nerved; leaf-stalk to 8 cm long. Flowers are borne in panicles at branch-ends, 14-20 cm long, hairy. Bracts are leaf-like. Sepal-cup cup-shaped, 0.8-1 cm long; sepals lanceshaped, 3-5-ribbed, tapering at tip, woolly. Flowers are white, tubular; tube 1-1.5 cm long, hairy outside; petals 6-10 mm long, oblong, hairy without. Stamens are 4, filaments slender, purplish, 2-2.5 cm long; anthers oblong. Ovary is spherical; style slender; protruding, 2-2.5 cm long. Drupe is 6-8 mm across, spherical, bluish-black on ripening; fruiting sepal-cup enlarged, pink. Seeds are 2-4, spherical, 2-3 mm across. Flowering: August-September.
Medicinal uses: Extract of the leaves is given orally in fever and bowel troubles in the Kuki and Rongmei tribes in the North-East India. Fresh leaf-juice is introduced in the rectum for removal of ascarids. Leaves and flowers are used to cure scorpion sting.

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The flower labeled Hill Glorybower is ...