PLATE DCVII. 



CLERODENDRUM TOMENTOSUM. 



Downy Clerodendrum. 



CLASS XII. ORDER II. 





DWYNJMJA ANGIOSPERMIA. Two Chives longer. Seeds covered. 



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GENERIC CHARACTER. 





Calyx campanulatus, quinquefidus. Corolla 

 tubo elongate, limbo quinquepartito, ae- 

 quali. Stamina exserta. Germen quadri- 

 loculare, loculis monospermis. Drupa te- 

 trapyrena. « 



Cup bell-shaped, five-cleft. Tube of the blos- 

 som elongated, with the limb equally five- 



parted. 



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tamens longer than the tube. 



Seed-bud four-celled, the cells one-seeded. 

 Fruit a dry berry including four nuts. 





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SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 





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Cibbodbndrum tomentosum, foliis ellipticis 

 acutis inugris calvcibusque tomentosisj 





corymbis congestis. Broun. 



Prodromus 



Flora Nova Hollandice et Insula: Van 

 Dicmen, vol 1. p. 510. * 



Downy Clerodendrum with elliptic acute entire 

 leaves downy as well as the cups ; corymbs 



crowded. 



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REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 



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Erapalement. 



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2. A blossom spread open. 



3. Seed-bud and pointal. 



4. A ripe fruit. 







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The Clerodendrum tomentosum is found naturally growing about Port Jackson and some other parts 

 of the eastern and northern coasts of New Holland, according to Mr. Brown's Prodromus of the 



Flora of that country, just published. This long expected and interesting work contains descriptions 

 of about two thousand plants, (of which, scarcely a third part have before been published) in the first 



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volume, and the second is now in the press. 



Although the Clerodendrum tomentosum has been in England above ten years, no figure of it has 

 before been given in this country. All the plants which we have seen of it form erect shrubs from 



We have been favoured with 



four to six feet in height. The time of blossoming is March and April, 

 specimens in blossom from the botanic garden of the Company of Apothecaries at Chelsea, and with 

 the ripe fruit from Sir Abraham Hume's collection at Wormley-bury, but are uncertain who first in- 

 troduced it. 











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