32 MY SHRUBS 
little cream-coloured flowers, spattered with dull purple, appear in 
January, and C. coccinea has a character of its own, and looks more 
like a red fruit than a flower. Its hybrids are good. 
Clerodendron fetidum, from China, though the leaf is un- 
pleasant, has trusses of fragrant pink flowers, while the newer 
C’. Fargestt sports white blossoms, followed by most beautiful azure 
fruits set in pink stars. C. fallax, from Java, has scarlet panicles, 
and makes a splendid shrub for the stove; but more beautiful 
still is that monarch of stove climbers, C. Balfouri, with its clusters 
of snow and crimson from Old Calabar. Clerodendron is a fair 
deceiver, according to her name; but I know not in what her 
guile consists. 
Clethra arborea is the best of this genus. I think it vain to 
attempt this out of doors, save in the most sheltered gardens by 
the sea. In our Western river estuaries it occasionally thrives ; 
but there always comes a sharp winter to lower it to the ground, 
and, though it will break again from the earth, it is then a case of 
waiting for the snowy panicles of bloom for several years. It is 
a Madeira species, but less hardy than Pinus canariensis, the blue 
fir, from the same favoured island. I think the rest of the Clethras 
come from America, but I only know the common C. alnifolia. 
C. paniculata, from Carolina, sounds a fine thing, in the style of 
the tree clethra above named. 
Clianthus, well-named from Kleios, glory—the Glory Pea, or 
Parrot Beak, of New Zealand—is a very splendid wall shrub, and 
C. puniceus, with the variety C. puniceus alba, is eminently success- 
ful on a wall. They flower and seed freely, but since the flower 
racemes are set in autumn, if the cold is severe, an Archangel mat 
may well be used to protect the bud against injury. C’. Dampiert, 
