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blue berries it bears, and the scent of its leaves ; flowers pale 

 purple. 



3. L. Camara. WILD SAGE. A large bushy shrub, four or 

 five feet high ; most rapid in its growth, with dark-green foliage 

 of oval-notched, rough, powerfully-scented leaves ; a common 

 plant, often found growing wild, nevertheless exceedingly beau- 

 tiful when in full blossom, as it nearly always is, with its nume- 

 rous small, semi-spherical compact corymbs of orange and yellow 

 flowers, succeeded by bunches of purplish-black seeds. There 

 are a great many varieties, named according to the colour of 

 the flowers they bear. ' Le Bon Jardinier ' gives the names of 

 as many as eighteen, of which some half-dozen, perhaps, are now 

 cultivated here. 



4. L. nivea. In habit and foliage similar to the last ; flowers 

 white, tinged with lavender, with yellow centre; exceedingly 

 delicate and beautiful. 



Citharexylon. 



C. subserratum. A large handsome shrub, with much of the 

 appearance of a Duranta, with dark-green verdant foliage ; bears 

 during the Kains long drooping spikes of numerous small, milk- 

 white, very fragrant flowers. 



Clerodendron. 



A genus that comprises some of the most beautiful plants 

 with which our gardens are adorned. Nothing can possibly 

 surpass the loveliness of some of the species, particularly the 

 seven first described below. The several species do not appear 

 as yet to have been well determined. . " Whoever," says Dr. 

 Lindley, " shall investigate the true distinctions between the 

 beautiful species of Clerodendron with scarlet inflorescence, 

 will find as ample a harvest of confusion to be reaped as he 

 can desire." * 



Some occasionally yield seed, and all may be propagated 

 without difficulty by cuttings put down in the Eains, or from 

 offsets or suckers, which most species send up abundantly. Sir 

 J. Paxton observes : " Flowers are produced from the top of 

 the current season's shoots; therefore cut away wood of the 

 previous season to within two or three buds of the base." 



* Edwards's ' Botanical Register for 1844,' p. 19. 



