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indicated by the illustration, the shrub is very bushy and pro- 
duces its flowers in great profusion, its flowering period extending 
through September and into October. The leaves are large, dark 
green, and on slender stalks or petioles. It is unfortunate that 
Carriére in the cut which accompanies his description of this 
plant should have represented the leaves as sessile, for this has 
e 
offer a striking combination of p old-rose and creamy-white, 
the angled calyx of the former color, while the creamy corolla 
spreads its divisions at the apex of a slender exserted tube. 
This plant is well worth cultivating, for, in addition to its 
time when most other shrubs are entirely wanting in bloom. In 
the latitude of New York, in the colder winters, it kills back con- 
ene but this need not be considered a drawback, for it 
ckly recovers. In a sheltered position this difficulty would 
Lanes aie disappe 
This shrub is not ay offered in the nurseries, but can 
be secured at some of them. It is a near relative of Clerodendron 
trichotomum, a native of Japan, but is more desirable on account 
of the greater profusion of its flowers. Plants of that species may 
also be seen in the Fruticetum at the place referred to above, and 
the merits of the two species compared ; 
GrorGE V. Nasu. 
NOTES, NEWS AND COMMENT. 
The Garden received, in June, under the provisions of the 
will of the late William R. Sands, a Life Member, a legacy of ten 
thousand dollars, which has been credited to the Endowment 
Fund by direction of the Board of Managers. 
r. Duncan S. Johnson, professor of botany in Johns Hopkins 
University, spent several days at the Garden during September 
