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CLERODENDRON infortunatum. 
Unlucky Clerodendron. 
DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA. 
Nat. ord. VERBENACEA. 
CLERODENDRON. Bot. Reg. v. 5. fol. 406. 
C. infortunatum ; foliis maximis subrotundis alté cordatis dentatis suprà 
pilosis subtüs tomentosis, paniculá coloratá simplici pubescente, floribus 
apice ramorum subsessilibus, calyce ampliato quinquefido, corolle laci- 
niis planis obovatis obtusis staminibus paulo brevioribus. 
C. infortunatum, Linn. fl. Zeyl. 232. 
. Whoever shall investigate the true distinctions between 
the beautiful species of Clerodendron with scarlet inflores- 
cence, will find as ample a harvest of confusion to be reaped 
as he can desire. We cannot pretend to do more than point 
out some of the instances to which we refer. 
Linnzus founded this species upon a Ceylon plant in Bur- 
mann's Herbarium, with a specific character that applies very 
well to this plant, and a description which leaves no doubt 
upon our minds that we have now before us what he intended, 
which was sént from Ceylon to His Grace the Duke of Nor- 
thumberland by Mr. Nightingale, and which flowered at Syon 
in August, 1843. But Linn®us quoted as a synonym the 
Petasites agrestis of Rumphius, which is quite a different 
species, and added as a variety the plant represented at t. 29 
of the Thesaurus Zeylanicus, which is also different, and pro- 
bably what Dr. Wallich distributed under the name of Clero- . 
dendron infortunatum. The true characters of the species . 
seem to lie in its very large flowers, which are clustered in 
little heads at the end of the principal branches of inflores- 
cence, and in the large leafy-coloured calyx, which is half 
split into five segments. 
Nearly allied, but very different, is the Clerodendron 
squamatum, figured in this work at p. 649. That plant has 
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