and the latter contain, each, a four-seeded berry of the richest 
blue colour.”’ = 
We are indebted to Messrs. Lucombe, Pince, and Co., for the 
splendid specimen, of which but a very small portion can be 
introduced into our plate. : 
Descr. Although in its native country attaiming a height of 
ten feet, it is one of those plants that flower readily when but of 
small size and confined in a pot. The whole is glabrous. The 
branches green, streaked with purple, marked with four furrows, 
hence four-angular, with the angles very obtuse. Leaves, the 
lower ones, on long petioles, very large, twelve to fourteen inches 
each way (in length and breadth), exactly cordate, acuminulate, 
with a deep sinus at the base, the margin obscurely toothed or 
serrated, the texture rather soft, the underside studded with 
minute scattered scale-like dots (lepidota). The upper leaves 
become gradually smaller and pass into dracts. Panicles large, 
_ lax, terminal, forming a pyramidal thyrsis two to three feet long ; 
peduncles and pedicels, as well as the entire ground-work of the 
flowers, crimson ; bracts \anceolato-spathulate, crimson (the lower 
ones broader). Calya large, inflated, conical, with sharp angles, 
almost winged at the angles ; the /imé of five, sharp, erect teeth. 
Tube of the corolla but little longer than the calyx : Himd oblique, 
of five spreading, soon recurved, oblong Jodes, of which the © 
lateral ones have an intense purple spot at the-base, and the 
upper and rather longer and larger lobe a pure white spot occu- 
_ pying the lower half of the lobe, and partially divided by a red 
line. Ovary four-lobed : style long, filiform: stigma bifid. Fila- 
ments of the stamens nearly four inches long, inclined down, but 
' slightly curving upwards: anthers small, dark greenish-grey. 
Cunt. Clerodendron is an extensive genus of soft-wooded 
tropical plants of various habits, a few of the species recom- 
mending themselves to our notice on account of their hand- 
some flowers; the species figured is one of these. In order 
to produce a handsome head of flowers it is advisable to select a 
young healthy plant early in the season, and encourage it to 
rapid growth by giving it the usual stimulants of heat and mois- 
ture, and growing it in a tolerably rich soil. ‘This may consist. 
of light loam, mixed with a portion of leaf-mould or other vege- 
table manure; the pot being well drained, so as to allow of 
_ Watering freely without the risk of the soil becoming saturated, 
_ which a rich soil is apt to do if carelessly watered, especially after 
shifting the plant into a larger pot, before the roots penetrate 
into the fresh soil. Shading in summer for a few hours in the 
middle of the day will be necessary, especially if the roof of the 
house has a south aspect and is of a light construction. It 
may be propagated by cuttings planted under a bell-glass, and 
placed in any warm part of the stove. J. 8. - 
