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CLERODENDRUM TOMENTOSUM. DOWNY 

 CLERO DEN DRUM, or CUMBERLAND TREE. 



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CA?/5 ##i Order, 



DlDYNAMlA AnGIOSPERMIA. 



Generic Chamber. 



Cal. 5-fidus (nunc 5-dentatus). Cor. tubo cylindrico : limbo 

 5-partito, patenti laciniis fubaequalibus. Stam. juxta faucem 

 inferta, adfcendentia. Bacca pyrenis 4 monofpermis. Brown. 



Specific CharaSfer and Synonyms. 



CLERODENDRUM tomentofum ; foliis ellipticisacutis imegris 

 calycibufque tomentofis, corymbis congeftis. Brown Prod. 

 Nov. Holl. 1. p. 510. Hori. Kew. ed. alt. v. 4. p. 64. inedit, 



CLERODENDRUM tomentofum. Boi. Repof. 597. 



VOLKAMERIA tomentofa. Vent. Malm. 84. * 



Descr. Stem fhrubby, erect, with us feldom exceeding two 

 or three feet in height. Leaves oppofite, petiolated, oblong- 

 ovate, lor the moft part quite entire, but occafionally jagged 

 with here and there an irregular tooth, covered with a foft 

 down on both fides, thicker on the under, net-veined, margin 

 callous. Inflorejcence in oppofite fiibtrichotomous cymes. Bracles 

 frnall, rounded, foon falling off. Calyx inferior, campanulate, 

 with a five-cleft, hollowed, acute border. Corolla white : title 

 long, flender: limb five-cleft: hcini* ovate, entire, foon revolute : 

 Stamens 4, didynamous : filaments longer than the corolla, in- 

 ferted above the middle of the tube, at firft ftraight, but foon 

 rolled back all one way : anthers didymous, ered-incumbent. 

 Germen orbicular, four-knobbed at the point : ovula 4. Style 

 longer than ftamens ; Jligma acute, bifid. It feldom matures its 

 ^uit with us ; but when it does, the calyx enlarges, becomes 

 "efhy, and coloured. The whole plant, not excepting the 

 corolla, is covered with a foft pubefcence. 



Ventenat's 



