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CLERODENDRON THOMSON. 
Mrs. Thomson's Clerodendron. 
Nat. Ord. VerBENACE&.—DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA. 
Gen. Char. Calye campanulatus, rarius tubulosus, interdum pentagonus et 
subinflatus, 5-fidus v. quinquedentatus, rarissime truncatus. Corolla infundi- 
bularis vel subhypocraterimorpha ; tubo seepissime calycem excedente, interdum 
longissimo ; dimébo quinquepartito laciniis superioribus paulo magis approximatis, 
subineequali vel laciniis inferioribus magis minusve adscendentibus obliquo immo 
subsecundo. Stamina 4, corolle tubo inserta, longe exserta, subdidyma ; an- 
there supra basin insertz, basi fissee, biloculares, docu/is parallelis, rima longitu- 
dinali dehiscentibus. Ovarium quadriloculare, loculis uniovulatis ; ovulo in sper- 
mophoro angulo centrali adnato pendulo. Sty/us filiformis, exsertus ; stigmate 
bifido, acuto. Drwpa calyci ampliato insidens vel inclusa, baccata y. carnosa, 
quadri- vel seepius abortu mono-di-tripyrena, seepius 2—4-loba ; pyrenis maturitate 
distinctis, unilocularibus ; putamine lignoso levi. Semen solitarium, erectum. 
Cotyledones oleosze, applicatze ; radicula brevis, infera—Frutices vel arbores, inter 
tropicos veteris orbis imprimis vero Asie copiose, in America vero parce crescentes. 
Folia opposita vel terna, simplicia, integra vel rarius lobata, phyllopodio interdum 
prominenti insidentia. Cymee trichotome vel axillares, vel in paniculam termi- 
nalem collecte. Schauer, in De Cand. 
CLERODENDRON Thomsone ; caule volubili glabro, foliis oppositis brevi-petio- 
latis integris oblongo-ovatis acutis glabris, yenis superne sulcatis, panicula 
axillari et terminali, cymis dichotomis laxifloris bracteatis, calyce albo mem- 
branaceo inflato pentagono 5-partito, laciniis ovatis acutis, corolla coccinea, 
tubo gracili extus glanduloso-pubescente calycem aquante, limbo oblique 
5-lobato, staminibus longissime exsertis. Bal/. 
CLERODENDRON Thomsone. Balf. in Edinb. New Phil. Journ. N.S. p. 1. 0. 15. 
fe es ¢ 
From the stove of the Botanic Gardens of Edinburgh, whence 
we received specimens from Professor Balfour in January of the 
present year, 1862, to whom the living plant was communicated 
in 1861, by the Rev. W. C. Thomson, missionary at Old 
Calabar, on the West Coast of Tropical Africa. The specific 
name is given in memory of that gentleman’s wife, the late Mrs. 
Thomson. It flowered in the stove at Edinburgh, the branches 
twining extensively round other plants or prostrate and rooting. 
MAY IsT, 1862. 
