: Tas: VIAL, 
CLERODENDRON panieoarom, 
Native of Eastern Tropical Asia. 
Nat. Ord. Verpenacex.—Tribe VITICER, 
Genus Cieropenpron, Linn. ; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen, Pl. vol. ii. p. 1155.) 
CLERODENDRON paniculatum ; fruticosum, puberulum, ramis _teretiusculis, 
ramulis 4-gonis, foliis inferioribus amplis longe petiolatis orbiculatis — 
hastatisve acnminatis cuspidatisve-profunde cordatis lobis incumbentibus 
breviter 5-lobis lobis acutis basi trinerviis, supra lete viridibus, subtus sub 
lente creberrime lepidotis, axillis fimbriatis, supremis sessilibus, panicule 
ramis brachiatis apices versus cymoso-multifloris, inferioribus erectis 
supremis decurvis, floribus coccineis flavis v. albidis, calycis parvi seg- 
mentis oblongis obtusis, coroll hypocrateriformis tubo gracili calyce 
pluries longiore, limbi lobis subeequalibus patentibus oblongis obtusis, 
filamentis corolla multoties longioribus, antheris parvis, ovario glaberrimo, 
stigmatibus angustis. R 
C. panicnlatum, Linn. Mant. p. 90; Ait. Hort. Kew. Ed. 2, vol. iv. p. 64; 
“ahl. Symb. vol. ii. p. 74; Bot. Reg. t. 406; Reichb, Fl. Exot, t. 208; 
Schauer in DC. Prodr. vol. xi. p: 668; Clarke in Fl. Brit. Ind. vol. iv. 
p. 593. 
C. splendidum, Wall. Cat. No. 1803. @ 
Volkameria angulata, Lour. FZ. Cochin. p- 389. 
A very widely distributed shrub in Kastern Asia, and a 
great ornament, whether in the jungle or in gardens. In 
Hastern India proper it ranges from Tenasserim southwards 7 
throughout the Malayan Peninsula; whence it extends to 
Java, Siam, Cochin China, Eastern China and For- 
mosa. It varies a good deal in the form of the leaves — 
from orbicular in outline to hastate, and in colour from 
its usual scarlet to white or yellowish. The panicles are 
often a foot and more high, and almost as broad. Accord- 
ing to Ker, who published an excellent figure and descrip- 
tion of it in the Botanical Register, it was introduced into 
England in 1809, from Penang, by Mr. Evan, of pen 
Seeds of C. paniculatum were sent to Kew ear y * 
1888 by G. M. H. Playfair, Esq., H. B. M. eget at 
Taiwan, in Formosa, which germinated, and the wees 
grew so rapidly in a stove that by the end rege ‘i in 
the following year they had formed a branching shrub two 
Octoxer Isr, 1890. 
