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or red. It flowers in November, and is a native of dry 

 sands in Jamaica and Hispaniola. 



22. Cleome Tenella. Rowers six-stamined ; leaves ter- 

 nate ; leaflets filiform, linear. Root annual ; stem a span 

 high, branching, erect ; leaflets sessile, the length of the 

 petals; siliques linear; corolla yellow. Found by Koenig, in 

 abundance, in dry sandy soil in the East Indies. 



23. Cleome Filifolia. Flowers six-stamined; leaves lower 

 septenate, upper ternate. Stem erect, weak, herbaceous, a 

 foot high, branched, striated towards the top, dotted, with 

 raised minute scattered dots; leaves petioled: petioles shorter 

 than the leaves ; flowers yellow, with a violet base, in termi- 

 nal racemes ; siliques two inches long, at first erect, afterwards 

 pendulous. Native of Egypt and Arabia. 



Cleonia : a genus of the class Didynamia, order Gymno- 

 spermia. GENERIC CHARACTER. Calix : perianth one- 

 leafed, tubular, angular, two-lipped, upper lip flattish, broad, 

 three-toothed, lowertwo-parted.short. CoroWa.-one-petalled, 

 ringent; upper lip straight, bifid, keeled, lower trifid ; the 

 middle segments two-lobed, the side ones spreading. Sta- 

 mina : filamenta four, forked at the end, the two lower 

 longest; anthers sitting on the outer apex of the filamenta, 

 crossed in pairs. Pistil: germen four-parted. Style: fili- 

 form, the length of the stamina ; stigmas four, setaceous, 

 equal. Pericarp : none. Calix : closed with hairs. Seeds : 

 four, nearly columnar, smooth. ESSENTIAL CHARACTER. 

 Filamenta : forked, with an anthera at one of the tips. Stig- 

 ma : four-cleft. The only known species is, ' 



1. Cleonia Lusitanica ; Sweet-scented Cleonia. Root an- 

 nual ; stem erect, six to eight inches high, brachiate, in the 

 lower part hairy ; flowers violet-coloured ; upper lip of the 

 calix large, the segments reflected at the end ; lower one ob- 

 cordate, complicate, spreading, gibbous on the upper side of 

 the base ; all the filamenta thorny ; anthera? crested at the 

 back ; seeds roundish, turgidly lens-shaped, mucronate at 

 the base, rufescent, with a white umbilicus, shaped like the 

 letter y. Native of Spain and Portugal. 



Clerodendrum : a genus of the class Didynamia, order 

 Angiospermia. GENERIC CHARACTER. Calix: perianth 

 one-leafed, five-parted, bell-shaped; segments ovate-acute, 

 broader than the tube of the corolla, permanent. Corolla : 

 one-petalled, irregular ; tube slender, long ; border five- 

 parted, equal, the upper segments more deeply separated. 

 Stamina: filamenta four, filiform, much longer than the co- 

 rolla, ascending through the upper fissure of the corolla, two 

 of them shorter; antherae simple. Pistil : germen roundish ; 

 style the form, length, and situation of the stamina ; stigma 

 simple. Pericarp : drupe roundish, placed on a large calix, 

 one-celled, with four stones, often splitting into four parts ; 

 each stone contains one seed. ESSENTIAL CHARACTER. 

 Calix. five-cleft, bell-shaped. Corolla: with a filiform tube, 

 and a funnel-shaped, five-parted, equal border. Stamina : 

 very long, gaping very much between the segments. Berry : 



one-celled, with four stones, and a single seed in each. 



The species are, 



1. Clerodendrum Infortunatum. Leaves cordate, tomen- 

 tose. This is a tree, or rather shrub, with subtomentose 

 branches; leaves opposite, acute, veined, somewhat scabrous, 

 large, quite entire; petioles the length of the leaves ; border 

 of the corolla short ; segments obovate ; anthera oblong ; 

 stigma bifid. Loureiro describes it as upright, seven feet 

 high, with quadrangular, four-grooved branches; flowers in 

 a vast terminating racemed corymb ; the peduncle, and all 

 the parts of the flower, are of a bright scarlet colour. Na- 

 tive of the East Indies, and China. 



2. Clerodendrum Fortunatum ; Entire-leaved Cleroden- 

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drum. Leaves lanceolate, quite entire. A shrub, the stem 

 cylindrical, and slightly hoary. Native of the East Indies. 



3. Clerodendrum Phlomoides. Leaves ovate, toothed, and 

 angular ; peduncles axillary, subtriflorous. This is a hoary 

 shrub. Found by Koenig in the East Indies. 



4. Clerodendrum Calamitosum. Leaves oval, somewhat 

 toothed, naked ; leaves opposite, petioled ; panicle brachiate. 

 Observed by Raster, in Java. 



5. Clerodendrum Paniculatum. Leaves five-lobed, tooth- 

 letted, smooth ; panicle brachinte ; axils woolly ; branches 

 quadrangular, smooth, purple, with a groove alongthe sidesj 

 leaves five or six inches long, opposite, petioled.heart-shaped; 

 flowers in a vast expanding panicle, about six inches long ; 

 calix smooth, with lanceolate segments ; corolla an inch over; 

 tube filiform ; segments of the border oblong. Native of the 

 East Indies. 



6. Clerodendrum Trichotomum. Leaves lobed and undi- 

 vided, broad-ovate,entire; panicle trichotomous. Stem shrub- 

 by; branches four-cornered, four-furrowed, smooth; leaves 

 opposite, petioled ; panicle very large, superdecompound, 

 naked ; peduncles and pedicels smooth, compressed at the 

 division ; tube of the corolla a little bent ; segments of the 

 border oblong, obtuse, spreading, white ; germen four- 

 cornered, smooth. The fruit is an almost globular capsule, 

 which is four-furrowed, smooth, inclosed within the large 

 calix, four-celled, and four-valved; there is one smooth seed 

 in each. The leaves have a strong poisonous smell, like Man- 

 dragora. It flowers in August and September ; and is found 

 near Nagasaki in Japan. 



7. Clerodendrum Squamatum. Leaves cordate, obscurely 

 angular; branches of the panicle dicliotomous, smooth. Stem 

 frutescent, erect; branches smooth, tetragonous, with a groove 

 on each side ; leaves three to five inches long ; panicle ter^- 

 minating, spreading, smooth ; peduncles thrice dichotomous; 

 pedicels not racemed, but one-flowered ; leaflets of the calix 

 ovate, acute, coloured, smooth. Native of the East Indies. 



8. Clerodendrum Diversifolium. Leaves entire, and three- 

 lobed, ovate ; branches of the panicle dichotomous, villose ; 

 pedicels racemed. Panicle terminating, half a foot long ; par- 

 tial peduncles opposite, spreading, twice or thrice dichoto- 

 mous; flowers pedicelled, alternate, distant; tube of the co- 

 rolla pubescent, an inch long ; upper bifid, with erect linear 

 segments, the lower three-lobed, spreading very much; the 

 lobes oblong, the side ones shorter; the lobes of the corolla 

 are scarcely equal. Native of the East Indies. 



Clethra: a genus of the class Decandria, order Monogynia. 

 GENERIC CHARACTER. Calix: perianth one-leafed, five- 

 parted; leaflets ovate, concave, erect, permanent. Corolla: 

 petals five, oblong, broader on the outside, from erect spread- 

 ing, a little longer than the calix, the upppr one broadest. 

 Stamina : filamenta ten, subulate, the length of the corolla; 

 anthera? oblong, erect, gaping at the top. Pistil : germen 

 roundish; stylefiliform, erect, permanent, increasing; stigma 

 trifid. Pericarp: capsule roundish, involved in the calix. 

 three-celled, three-valved. Seeds: six or eight in each cell, 

 angular. ESSENTIAL CHARACTER. Calix: five-parted. Pe- 

 tals: five. Stigma: trifid. Capsule: three-celled, three- 

 valved. The species are, 



1. Clethra Alnifolia ; Alder-leaved Clethra. Shrubby -. 

 leaves obovate, lanceolate, serrate, smooth ; racemes simple, 

 in form of spikes. The roots spread far on every side, and 

 send up many stems, from eight or ten to fourteen feet high, 

 which are covered with a grayish bark, and divide into small 

 round alternate branches ; the leaves are three inches long, 

 deep green on their upper side, and whitish green underneath, 

 alternate, on short petioles. The flowers are on loose spikes, 

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