Tas. 4355. 
CLERODENDRON capitatumM. 
Camtate Clerodendron. 
Nat. Ord. VerBenace®.—DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA. 
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4255.) 
CLERODENDRUM capitatum ; ramis junioribus nervisque foliorum (subtus pre- 
cipue) ferrugineo-pilosis, foliis amplis brevi-petiolatis obovato-oblongis acu- 
minatis reticulatis margine subsinuato-undulatis, pedunculo ferrugineo 
hirsuto terminali diphyllo, calycibus dense capitatis ampliatis foliaceo- 
membranaceis reticulatis ciliatis, corolle (albo) tubo longissimo curvato 
piloso-glanduloso infra apicem geniculato, limbi lobis subeequalibus obovatis 
patentibus, staminibus styloque longissime exsertis. 
CLERODENDRON capitatum. Schumacher, Pl. Guin. v. 2. p.61. Schauer, in De 
Cand. Prodr. v.11. p. 673. 
VoLcKAMERIA capitata. Willd. Sp. Pl. ev. 2. p. 384. 
There never was a period, perhaps, when so many splendid 
new plants were introduced to our stoves and greenhouses as at 
the present ; and these, it must be confessed, come very much 
through the instrumentality of our eminent and spirited Nursery- 
men, and the encouragement given by them to Collectors abroad. 
The late volumes of the Botanical Magazine will bear me out 
in this assertion; and the subject now figured is certainly not 
among the least splendid of recent arrivals. It is from the 
collection of Messrs, Lucombe, Pince, and Co. of Exeter, and 
was imported by them through Mr. Whitfield from Sierra Leone. 
It consequently requires stove heat, and it has the merit of 
flowering while the plants are small. 
Notwithstanding some slight discrepancies, I have every reason 
to believe this is the Volckameria capitata and equally the 
Clerodendron capitatum of Schumacher, more fully described in_ 
the Plants of Guinea. It is a species so little known to Botanists 
that in De Candolle’s Prodromus it is placed among “ species 
denuo recognoscend.”’ The length and spread of the corollas 
are so considerable, that at first sight the capitate character 1s 
not distinctly visible; but it will be seen that the bases of 
FEBRUARY Ist, 1848. 
