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VERBENACEAE. 



9. CLERODENDRON [Burm.] L. 



Shrubs, vines or perennial herbs, with opposite entire leaves, and flowers 

 in terminal or axillary cymes or panicles. Calyx 5-toothed or 5-lobed Corolla 

 salverform or funnelform, the tube mostly longer than the 5-lobed limb. 

 Stamens 4, borne on the corolla-tube, exserted, somewhat unequal. Stigma 2- 

 lobed; ovary 4-celled. Fruit a drupe, enclosing 4 1-seeded nutlets. [Greek, 

 tree of fortune.] Probably 100 or more species, mostly natives of tropical 

 regions. Type species: Clerodendrum infortunatum L. 



1. Clerodendron fragrans Vent. 

 ODOROUS CLEKODENDRON. (Fig. 341.) 

 Half-shrubby, finely pubescent, 2-5 

 high, the stout branches angled. Leaves 

 very broadly ovate, 4' 8' long, acute at 

 the apex, cordate or nearly truncate at 

 the base, coarsely dentate, long-petioled ; 

 flowers white, fragrant, double in all 

 American specimens examined, in dense 

 terminal cymes, the corolla about 1' 

 broad; calyx 5-cleft, its lanceolate lobes 

 acuminate; corolla-lobes rounded. [C. 

 capitatum of Lefroy, Jones and H. B. 

 Small.] 



Occasional in waste grounds, locally 

 abundant. Naturalized. Native of trop- 

 ical Asia. Flowers in summer and autumn. 

 Naturalized in Florida and the West 

 Indies. 



Clerodendron Thompsonae Balfour, MRS. THOMPSON'S CLERODENDRON, 

 African, a glabrous / high-climbing vine, with ovate petioled acute or acu- 

 minate, 3-nerved leaves 2'-4' long, panicled flowers, the white inflated calyx 

 angled, sharply 5-lobed, about 8" long, the red corolla with a spreading limb 

 8"-10" broad, is occasionally planted for ornament. 



Clerodendron glabrum E. Meyer, BUSH CLERODENDRON, of South Africa, 

 occasionally planted for ornament, is a large glabrous shrub up to 9 high, 

 with slender-petioled, ovate-elliptic, pointed thin leaves 2'-3' long, and large 

 terminal panicles of small fragrant pinkish flowers with exserted stamens, 

 the bright white oblique berry-like fruit about 4" long. 



Clerodendron fallax Lindl., SCARLET CLERODENDRON, of Java, commonly 

 grown in flower-gardens, is herbaceous, 2-4 high, velvety-pubescent, the 

 long-petioled, nearly orbicular, cordate leaves 3'-6' broad, the terminal panicled 

 scarlet flowers !'-!*' long, the slender corolla-tube longer than the corolla- 

 limb, and about 4 times as long as the 5-cleft calyx. 



