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CLERODENDRON EMIRNENSE. SMALL-FLOW- 
ERED MADAGASCAR CLERODENDRON. 
Class and Order. 
Dipynamia ANGIOSPERMIA. 
( Nat. Ord.—Verpenacez. ) 
Generic Character. 
_ Cal. 5-fidus (nunc. 5-dentatus). Cor. tubo cylindrico; 
limbo 5-partito, patenti, laciniis subequalibus. Stam. 
pate faucem inserta, exserta, adscendentia: antherarum 
oculis parallelis. Bacca pyrenis 4, monospermis. Br. 
“Specific Character and Synonym. 
CLERODENDRON * emirnense ; foliis oppositis ternatisque 
ovatis acutis basi in petiolum brevem’attenuatis inte- 
Serrimis vel grosse serratis, corymbis terminalibus, 
corolle tubo gracili staminibus duplo breviore, denti- 
bus calycinis minutis. ~ 3 ? 
LERODENDRON emirnense. Bojer MSS. 
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Dzscr. A much branching shrub, from ten to twenty 
feet high, subject to much variation in the stems and leaves. 
The branches sometimes opposite, sometimes verticillate, 
elongated, flexuose, dotted, and slightly pubescent. Leaves 
in the younger plants or branches, opposite, in the older 
Ones ternate or quaternate, from one to two inches or more 
_ 1 length, ovate or oblongo-ovate, shortly acuminate, en- 
_ Ure or grossly serrated, the base attenuated into oy 
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es 
From «anos, lot, or fortune, and delpor, a tree; and given to this Genus in 
allusion to the saleniey on dangerous ria of the different species which -~ 
wv it. Thus, the Cu. fortunatum is useful in medicine ; while the Cu. 
calamitosum and infortunatum are the reyerse, Tnéts. 
