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A DESIRABLE AUTUMN SHRUB. 
Many years ago a shrub was introduced into cultivation from 
China, from whence it was sent by M. Eugene Simon. This 
plant is a member of the vervain family, to which belongs the 
well-known verbena of the gardens, and was given the name, in 
1867, of Clerodendron serotinum by Carriére, who well describes 
it as a beautiful plant. 
Fic. 32. Clerodendron serotinum, 
Plants of this were secured by the Garden in 1899, and it is 
from a photograph of one of these that the accompanying illus- 
tration is made. Two of these plants may be seen in the Fruti- 
cetum in the neighborhood of the approach to the Woodlawn 
Road bridge, while others grace the nearby shrub border. As. 
