334 CLEEODENDRON 



Calyx campanulate or rarely tubular, 5-toothed or 5- 

 lobed: corolla tube usually slender and cylindrical, the 

 limb 5-parted and spreading : stamens 4, affixed on the 

 corolla-tube, long-exserted and curved : style exserted, 

 2-cleft at the end : orary 4-loeuled : f r. a drupe enclosed 

 in the calyx. Lvs. opposite or in 3's, usually entire, 

 never compound. 



A. Climbing shrubs. 

 Th6mpsonae, Balfour (C. Bdlfotiri. Hort.). Fig. 493. 

 Tall, twining, glabrous evergreen: lvs. opposite, oblong- 

 ovate and acuminate, strongly several- 

 nerved: fls, in axillary and terminal fork- 

 ing panicles ; calyx strongly angled, nar- 

 rowed at the apex, ■white ; corolla-limb 

 red and spreading. W. Afr. B.M. 5313. 

 K. H. 1867:310. — A warmhouse plant of 

 great merit, and the most popular of the 

 tender species. Blooms profusely on the 

 young wood. Var. delictum, Hort. {C. 

 delictum and C. deUcdtum, Hort.). Pani- 



Erect shrubs t 



CLERODENDRON 



fls. in few-fld. opposite, forking cymes, the calyx not en- 

 larged, the slim corolla-tube loiig-exserted (3-4 times 



fragrans, Vent. ( C. 

 half shrubby, will; :mi: 



ovate, with truiM 



toothed: fls. wlii: 



drangea-like ci.r\ 



B.M. 1834.-Very cirs 

 coolhouse. Hardy in 



viscdsum.Vent. He 



branches 

 toothr.i: 1 

 flesh-.-.i,: 

 the 1— 

 1805. I 

 n4tum, (i: 



■iff, Hort. ?). Pubescent, 



:M,_-hM i...ui.-hcs,3-5ft.: lvs. broadly 



' I I.; li I i.'ise, acuminate, coarsely 



' I ! Ill terminal, compact, hy- 



11 ii:u;\ (l.iuble. China, Japan, 



desirable ;uicl fragrant plant for the 

 in Fla. Lvs. ill-scented. 

 Height 5-7 ft., pubescent, with square 

 pjiosite and stalked, cordate-ovate, 

 ! — e terminal panicle, white, with a 

 '■ M:iring, the tube projecting beyond 

 ."i-angled calj-x. E. Ind. B.M. 

 . iiied. Greenhouse. C. infortu- 

 .-;ii.l to be the same species (and the 

 t it has scarlet fls. — perhaps a result 

 Even if the same species, it is better 

 separate for horticultural purposes. 



'' §^>:, ^P^. 



^?*"-.vv|ui''-t 



trich6tomum. Tin 



x,.,;',t !„„,„. Carr. Volka- 



mlria .l.n^.,nr.,. ii..ri . n.-i r ..i. I'ii,-. 494. Slender 



buter.' I I . 4-10 ft. high or 



even In i i i i ■ , i - r... nit and flaccid, 

 ovate :i.' I ■' I ,' ii:in, very closely ser- 



rate er .1 1. . with a reddish bro^wn 



calyx, i.n ; I ' i ■ i ! i I i-li peduncles, the corolla- 



tube Ml !, ,, the calyx. Japan. B.M. 



65G1. (.11, 1.;: i.iii; .1. |., .;;ii. ,K,. H. 1867, p. 351. -A very 

 handsome, hardy sliriili. in tUe N. it kills to the ground, 

 but sprouts up if the crown is protected. 



BB. Corolla-tube fJimoe or more longer than the 



small call) I. 



c. Fls. ivMte. 



tomentdaum, R. Br. Shrubby and erect, pubescent, 



3-5 ft. and more, often purplish: lvs. opposite and peti- 



oled ovate oblong entire or sparingly toothed pubes 



oent on hrth sides but thickly so on the under side 



493. Clerodendron 



ichotomum (XX). 



length of calyx), and the clear white corolla-lobes re- 

 flexedcurled ; anthers yellow. Austral. B.M. 1518.— 

 Cult, in S. Calif. 



macrosiphon Hook f Elegant erect shrub, finely 

 pubescent lvs opposite oblanceolate oblong, acumi- 

 nate notched fl in a nearlj sessile terminal (■vine, 

 pure white cih\j,rpen very small ; corolla-tube 

 v( r% niirow 4--i in long hairy the limb 1-sided. 

 /aii7il 1 I "M 1 1 I —Warmhouse plant of merit. 



Siphon4nthu3 1 li {'^iphonanthus Indica,lj\nn.). 

 Tlik riii^N s,i„,ib 2-6 ft high: fls. long- 

 tubtd md wilt ii \ i\ lirge terminal racemes, 

 but smiU and ill \ \ fi i verv showy, red and 

 purple berr% w 1 i 1 i i i t lonf, time, and for 

 which the pi lilt ■ I i ih i wn E. Ind. — Hardy 

 mFla 



C( n I I o, dntinctly Ulac. 

 squamitum \ i\\\ {C Kwmpfeii Sieb.). Grows 

 I -Id ft hull ] ube (<nt lvs opposite round-cordate 

 iiitire abruptly pointed : inflores 

 cence and fls brilliant scarlet; fls 

 with small red ( alyx and reflexed 

 spreading, unequal corolla - lobes 



