VERBENACEi^ 



Class I Dicotyledons 



Division III. . . . Gamopetalce 

 Natural Order . . . Verbenacece 



Herbs, shrubs, or trees, with generally opposite or whorled, exstipulate leaves, 

 and irregular or nearly regular flowers ; Calyx inferior, tubular, and persistent ; 

 Corolla 4-5-fid, usually more or less bilabiate ; Stamens usually 4, didynamous ; 

 Ovary 2-4-celled, cells with 1 ovule, style teiminal ; Fruit usually a carcerulus 

 I of 4 nutlets, but sometimes drupaceous. 



Distinguished from Labiatfe by the entire ovary and terminal style, and from 

 Scrophularinea? by the single ovule in each cell. 



STINKING CLERODENDRON, Clerodeudronfcetidum. 



Gardens. August, September. Requires rich warm loam. This is easily 

 recognised by its downy heart-shaped leaves, which emit a peculiarly foetid odour 

 when bruised. It is sometimes cut down in severe winters, but will shoot forth 

 again in the following spring. 



Flowers lilac-rose, fragrant at a distance, unpleasant when nearer, in a dense 

 terminal corymb; Calyx tubular, 5-fid ; Corolla gamopetalous, 5-lobed ; Stamens 

 4 ; Ova7'y superior, style terminal ; Fruit a carcerulus of four 1 -seeded nutlets. 



Leaves opposite, cordate, acuminate, serrated, dark green, pubescent, exsti- 

 pulate, petioles slender. 



A deciduous shrub, 5 ft. ; with short rigid prickles. 



Introduced from China, 1820. Generic name from Gr. klcros, cliance, 

 dendron, a tree, said to be owing to uncertainty of medicinal qualities. 

 Specific name from L. fcetidus, fetid, stinking. Syn. C. Buiigci. 



KUSAGI, Clerodendron trichotomiom. 



Gardens. August, September. Requires rich warm loam. The reddish- 

 purple calyx and white petals make this one of the most beautiful and distinc- 

 tive of hardy shrubs. 



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