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CLERODENDRON splendens. 



Scarlet Glory-tree. 



DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA 



Nat. ord. Verbenace^e. 

 CLERODENDRON. Supra vol. b.fol. 406 



C. splendens ; glabrum, foliis oblongis undulatis acutis basi subcordatis, pa- 

 niculis terminalibus corymbosis, calycibus quinquedentatis immutatis, 

 corollse laciniis oblongis subsequalibus planis tubo brevioribus, stamini- 

 bus rectis stylo multd longioribus, stigmate bidentato. 



C. splendens. George Don in Jamiesoris Journal, vol. x\.p. 349. 



Of the many beautiful climbing plants inhabiting the 

 woods of Sierra Leone, and of which so few are yet in cultiva- 

 tion, this is one of the best. Its foliage is of a deep rich 

 green, and the flowers of a colour not inferior to that of 

 Euphorbia splendens. It will be a stove plant, but one of 

 the handsomest in the country. It has flowered with Mr. 

 Knight, at his Nursery in the King's Road, where it had 

 been sent by Mr. Whitfield, a most zealous and enterprising 

 collector. This gentleman has favoured me with the follow- 

 ing account of it. 



" Late in the month of December, 1838, my servant, 

 John Richards, brought to me a bunch of the flowers of the 

 Clerodendron splendens, and afterwards took me to the spot 

 where he found it growing wild, when I took up the root of 

 it after much labour, as the plant was growing in a very stiff" 

 gravelly soil. Upon further search I found several others 

 growing in a stiff loam that appeared to me to be in its virgin 

 state ; at a subsequent period I proceeded to the same neigh- 

 bourhood to obtain more plants, but I was not successful. 

 Early in February, in 1839, I rambled, when practicable, 

 along the south-west district of Sierra Leone, where I found 

 it growing in greater plenty and of various colours, viz. 



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