Tas. 4880. 
CLERODENDRON FOTIDUM. 
Fetid Clerodendron. 
Nat. Ord. VERBENACER.—DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA. 
Gen. Char. Calye campanulatus, rarius tubulosus, interdum pentagonus et 
subinflatus, 5-fidus vel 5-dentatus, rarissime truncatus. Corolla infundibuliformis — 
vel subhypocraterimorpha, tubo sepissime calycem conspicue excedente interdum» 
longissimo, limbo 5-partito laciniis superioribus paulo magis approximatis sub- — 
ineequali vel laciniis inferioribus magis minusve adscendentibus obliquo immo 
subsecundo. Stamina 4, corolle tubo inserta, longe exserta, subdidynama ; 
anthere supra basin inserte, basi fisse, biloculares, loculis parallelis rima longi- — 
tudinali dehiscentibus. Ovarinm 4-loculare, loculis uniovulatis, ovulo in spermo- 
phoro angulo centrali adnato pendulo. Stylus filiformis, exsertus, stigmate bifido 
acuto. Drupa calyci ampliato insidens vel inclusa, baccata vel carnosa, quadri- — 
vel sepius abortu mono-di-tripyrena, sepius 2—4-loba, pyrenis maturitate dis- 
tinctis unilocularibus, putamine lignoso levi. Semen solitarium, erectum. Coty- 
ledones oleose, applicite, radicula brevis infera—Frutices vel arbores inter 
tropicos veteris orbis, imprimis vero Asie, copiose, in America vero parce crescentes. 
Folia opposita vel terna, simplicia, integra vel rarius lobata, phyllopodio interdum 
prominenti persistenti insidentia. Cymee trichotome vel axillares vel in paniculam 
terminalem collecte. DC. é 
CLERODENDRON fetidum ; foliis late cordatis pubescenti-pilosis grosse_ ct 
dentatis subtus ad nervorum axillis glandulosis, corymbis dense 
terminalibus, tubo corolle longissimo calycem quintuplo excedente, 
4—5-partito. ‘ Bost 
CLERODENDRON feetidum. Bunge, Mém. des Savans trang. de St. Pétersb. v. 2. 
p. 126. Walp. Repert. Bot. v. 2. p. 126. aN : 
CLERODENDRON Bungei. Steud. Nomencl. Bot. ed. 2. p. 382. 
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A charming species of Clerodendron of northern China, first 
detected and described by Bunge, and more recently introduced — 
to cultivation in our gardens by Mr. Fortune. We owe the pos- 
session of our plant to Messrs. Standish and Noble, and we have - 
hitherto treated it as a greenhouse plant; but Messrs. Masters — 
and Sons, of the Exotic Nursery, Canterbury, announce, in the 
‘ Gardeners’ Chronicle’ (1854), that it stood out unharmed in the 
open air for six winters, till the winter of 1853-1854, but that 
in May of that year a sucker was protruded a foot from the 
ground, which attained a height of between three and four feet 
OCTOBER lst, 1855. 
