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* CLERODENDRON fragrans 



Fragrant Clerodendron. 



DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA. 



Nat. ord. Verbenace^:. 



CLERODENDRON. Bot. Reg. vol. 5. fol. 406. 



C. fragrans; foliis subrotundo-cordatis rugosis dentatis pubescentibus, floribus 

 sphaeroideo-aggregatis terminalibus, corolla? laciniis linearibus apicerotuu- 

 datis dilatatis, stylis staminibus multo longioribus. 



C. fragrans. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 4. 63. Vent. Malm. t. 70. Willd. enum. 

 659. Bot. Mag. t. 1834. 



Few plants are more deserving cultivation than this, 

 which in the s;ardens of China is one of the handsomest of 

 their Flora ; as is attested by a beautiful Chinese drawing- 

 preserved in the library of the Horticultural Society. 



In this country it is usually met with in the double 

 state represented in the Botanical Magazine, t. 1834. But 

 the single-flowered kind, now figured, is much more 

 beautiful and scarcely less fragrant. It is a conservatory 

 plant of the easiest cultivation, and if placed in the open 

 border in a warm place during summer, it will remain 

 healthy and flower abundantly. But it is killed by the first 

 frost. 



It grows with great luxuriance, and the chief thing 

 to be attended to in its cultivation is a sufficient quantity 

 of room. A damp stove seems to suit it very well. If 

 it be in a healthy condition, the pot in which it is grown 

 will soon be completely filled with its roots ; in this state it 

 is necessary to give it plenty of water, and syringe it freely 



* See Bot. Reg. vol. 16. fol. 1307. 



