COMPANION 
TO THE 
BOTANICAL MAGAZINE. 
ADDITION TO THE “ HORTUS KEWENSIS.” 
Clerodendron macrophyllum. 
Elatum glabrum fruticosum, foliis amplis ellipticis coriaceis apice aciimi- 
natis basi obtusis in petiolum crassmn semiteretem breviter decurrentibus 
integerrimis costa nemsque subtus valde prominentibus, panicubs axiUari- 
bus terminalibusque bracteatis^ bracteis longis spatlmlatis, pedunculis 
ultimis tricliotomisj pedicelbs apice dilatatis, calycibus deltoideo-acuminatis 
profunde 5-partitis, laciniis lanceolato-acuminatis conniventibus, coroUae 
(albae) tubo calycem duplo superante, limbo 5-lobo, lobis secundis Hneari- 
oblongis extimis angustioribus, staminibus flexuosis divaricatis styloque 
longe exsertis. 
Clerodendron macrophyllum, Bl. Beitr. {non Sims). 
Clerodendron phyUomega, Steud. Nomencl. vol.i. p. 382. Walters, Bepert. 
Boi. vol. iv. p. 104. 
Hab. Sandy places on Seribu Mountains of Java; and introduced from 
thence by Mr. Veitch, in whose Nursery at Mount Eadford, Exeter, tlnee 
plants have been in blossom for six weeks, and are now (December, 1846) 
in high perfection. 
One of the finest of all the species of Clerodendron ; with white 
flowers indeed, but what is wanting in brilliancy of colour in 
the corolla is amply compensated by the noble fohage (almost 
resembling that of some East Indian Magnolia) and the vast 
panicle of innumerable blossoms. It is of easy growth, and 
continues many weeks uninterruptedly in flower. It is a soft- 
wooded shrub, an inch in thickness at the base of the stem, erect, 
three feet high. The leaves fourteen to sixteen inches long inde¬ 
pendent of the petiole, thick and subcoriaceous, dark green, with 
a very prominent midrib and nerves beneath. The panicles ai*e 
terminal and axillary; so copious, that the whole plant may be 
said to be one vast p 3 rramidal leafy panicle. The flowers are about 
the size and of the same colour as those of Cler. nutans (Bot. 
Mag. Tab. 3049). No figure could possibly do justice to this 
fine plant in the small pages of our Magazine. It has, we under¬ 
stand, been recently exhibited at a Meeting of the Horticultural 
Society in Regent Street. 
* The Cler. macrophylhm of Sims (Bot, Mag. t.2536), is only a downy variety 
of Cler. (Volkameria) serratum, L. 
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