Tas. 4354. 
CLERODENDRON scanpens. 
Climbing Clerodendron. 
Nat. Ord. VeRBENACEX%.—DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA. 
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4255.) 
CLERODENDRON scandens ; subpubescens, caule volubili tetragono, foliis cordato- 
ovatis acuminatis membranaceis integerrimis brevi-acuminatissimis, petiolo 
gracili basi nodoso-articulato, corymbis pedunculatis axillaribus terminalibus 
paniculam foliosam formantibus, calycibus oblongo-turbinatis semiquinque- 
fidis, segmentis albidis membranaceis ovatis trinervibus, corolle tubo 
gracillimo calyce duplo longiore, limbi laciniis obovatis patentibus tubo vix 
brevioribus, staminibus stylogue longissime exsertis corolle tubo triplo 
superantibus. 
CLERODENDRON scandens. Pal. Beauv. Fl. D’Ow. et de Ben. v.2. p.6. t. 62. 
Schauer in De Cand. Prodr. v. 11. p. 662. 
CLERODENDRON umbellatum? Poir. Cycl. 5. p. 166. 
A very pretty stove Clerodendron introduced, together with 
the following more splendid species, by Messrs. Lucombe, Pince, 
and Co., Exeter Nursery, from Sierra Leone, through the instru- 
mentality of Mr. Whitfield. The flowers are exceedingly pretty 
and copious, and the plant is a climber, well adapted for growth 
on a balloon trellis in a pot. It flowers in December, when 
the far less beautiful blossoms have great charms. Palisot de 
Beauvois’ figure (and description as far as it goes) is quite cha-_ 
racteristic of this plant; but Schauer, in De Candolle, seems to _ 
have constructed his specific character from Poiret’s C. wmbella- 
‘um, which can hardly be the same species, for neither is our 
plant “glaberrima,” nor are the leaves coriaceous. = 
Duscr. A graceful climber, with obtusely tetragonous and 
slightly pubescent stems and branches. Leaves in remote pairs 
three or four inches long, two or more wide, ovate, entire, mem- 
branaceous, with a short but very sharp point, cordate at the 
base, more or less pubescent, especially on the nerves beneath, — 
and there often tinged with purple. Pedzoles slender, articulated, __ 
and nodose, on a projecting tooth of the stem or branch, a 
FEBRUARY lst, 1848. 
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