CLERODEN’DRON SQUAMA’TUM. 
~  S$CALY CLERODENDRON. 
DICOTYLEDONEZ. 
Natural division 
to which 
this Plant belongs 
NATURAL ORDER, VERBENACEZ. 
Spepes, 7 £ | Artificial divisions } iy — DIDYNAMIA, 
to which HT on ANGIOSPERMIA, 
DRCASDOILES this Plant belongs vi OF LINNEUS. 
No. 13. 
GENUS. C.ieropenpron. Catyx 5-fidus (nune 5-dentatus.) Corotz 
tubo cylindrico; limbo quinque-partito, patente, laciniis sub-equalibus. Sra- 
MINA juxta faucem inserta, adscendentia: antherarum loculis paralle lis. Bac- 
A pyrenis 4,monospermis. Rozerr Brown. : ; 
<ePReTEe: CLERODENDRON sQuamatTuM. Vauzt. Fortts cordatis subinte- 
gerrimis supra villosis subtus squamosis, panicula ramossime ramis glabris 
pe tubo corolle calycem Taps superante, genitalibus longissimis. 
SSPRENGEL. 
CHARACTER OF THE GENUS, CLERODENDRON. Catryx 5-cleft (some- 
times merely 5-toothed.) Tube of the corolla cylindrical,limb 5-part- 
ed, spreading, segments somewhat unequal. STAMENs inserted near 
the throat, protruding, ascending; cells of the anthers parallel. Berry 
of 4 pyrena or hard nuts, each containing one-seed. 
DESCRIPTION OF THE SPECIES, CLERODENDRON SQUAMATUM. A 
Surve, with smooth, four-angled, furrowed branches. Leaves petio- 
late, two inches or more in length, cordate, with a deep sinus at the 
base, not much pointed, three or five-nerved: delicate, smooth, obscure- 
ly angled towards the base, but scarcely toothed, occasionally having 
very minute hairs at the margin, the under surface covered with very 
minute orbicular scales. FLOWERS in a panicle, which is terminal, 
spreading, and smooth. PrpuNc.LeEs thrice dichotomously divided, 
pedicels scarcely branched the pedicel in each dichotome one-flowered. 
Srements of the calyx ovate, acute, coloured, smooth. Tuse of the 
corolla twice the length of the calyx. Sramens 4, didynamous, fila- 
ments long slender; anthers somewhat versatile, two-cleft below the 
point of attachment to the filament. StTy.e simple, slightly bifurcate 
at the apex. Fruit capsular, two-celled, 4-seeded. 
Poputar anpD GeocrapuicaL Notice. This remarkably splendid 
plant is a native of China and Japan, where it seems to have been first 
noticed by Kempfer, on which account it is called Kempfer’s Scar- 
REFERENCE TO THE DissEcTIONs. 
1, Ovarium transversely cut. 2, corolla laid open. 3 and 4, back and front of Stamens: 
