Tas. 4255. 
CLERODENDRON srtnvartvuo. 
Sinuate-leaved Clerodendron 
Nat. Ord. VERBENACE®.—DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA. 
Gen. Char. Calyx campanulatus, 5-fidus, v. 5-dentatus. Corolla tubo cylin- 
draceo seepius elongato; limbo 5-partito, laciniis wqualibus. Stamina 4, didy- 
nama, exserta, secunda. Ovarium 4-loculare, loculis monospermis. Stigma 
bifidum, acutum. Bacca tetrapyrena, calyce sepius ampliato cincta—Arbores 
v. frutices. Folia opposita, simplicia, indivisa, nune lobata, petiolorum basi per- 
sistenti. Corymbi ¢erminales et axillares, trichotomi. Br. 
CLERODENDRON sixuatum ; pubescens, ramis copiosis gracilibus, foliis elliptico- 
ovatis acuminatis sinuatis angulatisve basi subcordatis, cymis multifloris 
capitatis, calycis pubescentis basi bi-bracteati tubo cylindraceo laciniis subu- 
latis tubum subequantibus patentibus, corollze hypocrateriformis (alba) tubo 
gracili calycem triplo excedente, limbo 5-lobo laciniis ovalibus, staminibus 
styloque longissime exsertis. 
Sent in July, 1846, from the rich collection of Messrs. Lucombe, 
Pince, and Co. of Exeter, who received it from Sierra Leone, 
discovered by Mr. Whitfield. It is one of those plants to which 
a drawing cannot do justice, and whose charm depends on the 
gracefulness of the entire plant, flowering at an early period, and 
bearing dense many-flowered heads from the extremity of every 
branch ; and these blossoms, too, are highly fragrant and of the 
tenderest and purest white. It deserves a place in every stove- 
collection. 
Descr. A low shrub, downy in almost every part, much 
branched; the éranches obtusely tetragonal, the younger ones 
green. Leaves opposite, petiolate, ovate or ovate-oblong, acute, 
not serrated, but sinuated or angled at the margins, penninerved, 
and the nerves united by transverse nervelets, the base somewhat 
cordate. Corymbs solitary, many-flowered, the flowers collected 
into a large head or capitulum at the extremity of almost every 
branch, peduncled. Pedicels short. Caly« small, downy, bi- 
bracteolate at the base, the éve cylindrical, the segments subulated, 
about as long as the tube, spreading. Corolla pure white, hypo- 
SEPTEMBER lst, 1846. 
