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cultivation, and its various shades and tints are really 

 beyond accurate description. It is a fast-growing 

 climber, with slender red stems, bearing oblong, 

 cordate leaves, which are vinous-red beneath ; the 

 ground-colour on the upper side is metaUic-greeu, 

 wonderfully marbled and shaded -with creamy- white, 

 crimson, purple, peach, and rose. It is a very rapid 

 grower, and should be pruned hard back ia the 

 autumn, as the young growths then break from near 

 the base. Young plants struck from cuttings every 

 year, however, produce the finest foliage. Java. 



C. Liiidenii. — Similar in habit to the preceding, pro- 

 ducing large cordate-acuminate leaves of a bright 

 shining green, variously blotched between the veins 

 with silvery-white, which renders it at once distinct 

 and very ornamental. Columbia. 



C. porphyrophylla, though commonly classed with 

 the Cissus of gardens, has nothing to do either 

 with Cissus or the Vine family, but is a species of 

 Pepper known as Fiper porphyrophyllum. 



Clavija. — ^A family of bold-growing plants, be- 

 longing to the order Myrsinacece, remarkable for 

 their large and handsome foliage, and also for the 

 abundance of their showy flowers ; they have very 

 much the appearance of, and are nearly aUied to, the 

 genus Tlieophrasta, and the name commemorates 

 the scientific labours of Joseph Clavijo Faxardo, an 

 •eminent Spanish naturalist. Pot in a compost of 

 two parts loam and one of peat. Stove temperature. 



C.fulgens. — A handsome plant, with stout stem 

 bearing a large head of leaves, which are about a 

 foot long, and some five inches wide. Flowers deep 

 orange-scarlet, rich yellow at the base. Summer and 

 autumn months. Peru. 



C. ornata. — This, like aU the species, is an un- 

 branched plant, assuming a tree-like form, and 

 bearing a fine head of large and handsome foliage. 

 Racemes produced from the axils of the leaves, and 

 also from the stem far below the leaves ; these are 

 upwards of six inches long, drooping, and many- 

 flowered. Flowers deep orange. Summer months. 

 New Grenada. 



C. macrophylla. — Stem stout, greyish- white in 

 colour. Leaves large and numerous, and very 

 strongly veined. Racemes slender, drooping, six to 

 eight inches long. Flowers orange-yellow. Summer 

 months. Brazil. 



C. Eodekiana, — This is a superb species, with a 

 stout erect stem, retaining its leaves for a long time. 

 Racemes numerous, pendulous, and dense. Flowers 

 deep orange-red. Summer months. Tropical America. 



Clerodendron These plants belong to the 



order Verbenaceee ; some of them are stove climbers, 

 whilst others are shrubby; the latter section require 



to bo cut hard back after flowering, the soil reduced, 

 and re-potted into small pots, from which they must 

 be shifted from time to time as the pots become full 

 of roots. The climbers require but little pruning, 

 and this only in spring, before growth commences. 

 During the summer months they enjoy abundance of 

 heat and moisture, but during the winter the Inter- 

 mediate House will suit them best. Pot in about 

 equal parts of loam, peat, and weU-decomposed 

 manure, with a small portion of sharp sand added. 



C. Bettuneanum — a bold- 

 gi-owing: shrubby species, 

 with, furrowed stems ; 

 flowers rich crimson, 

 spotted with white and 

 purple. Autumn months. 

 Borneo. 



C. fallax — one of the 

 showiest of stove shrubs. 

 Leaves ample, cordate, 

 membranous, and deep 

 green ; panicles terminal, 

 bearing a profusion of in- 

 tense scarlet flowers. Au- 

 tumn mouths. Java. 



C. fragrans — of medintu 

 growtti, with sub-cordate 

 leaves, which are serrate 

 and slightly downy ; 

 flowers white, slightly 

 tinged with red, and 

 deliciously fi-agrant. Au- 

 tumn months. China. 

 The variety flore-pleno 

 has double flowers, which 

 are' pure white, tinged 

 with rosy-pink. 



0. infortunatum is a bold 

 shrub, having cordate 

 , leaves, and large terminal 

 panicles of intense rich 

 scarlet flowers. Autumn 

 months. Ceylon and 

 India. 



C. myricoides — sometimes 

 called Q^clonema myri- 

 coides — is a small-growing 

 shrub, with opposite or 

 whorled leaves ; panicles 

 terminal and axillary ; 



corolla piuk, Kmb white, 

 lower lobe pale blue. 

 Spring and early summer. 

 Abyssinia. 



C. spleudens — a climbing 

 plant with slender stems, 

 and opposite, glabrous, 

 dark green, oblong leaves, 

 and terminal panicles of 

 bright scarlet flowers. 

 Summer and autumn 

 months. West Africa. 



C. sCLuamatum — a very 

 handsome shrubby spe- 

 cies, with large cordate- 

 ovate leaves, and large 

 terminal panicles of rich 

 deep scarlet flowers, 

 which last long in full 

 beauty. Summer aijd 

 autumn months. East 

 Indies. 



C. Thomsonse — a handsome 

 climbing species, with 

 opposite ovate-lanceolate 

 leaves, and terminal pani- 

 cles of bloom; the calyx 

 is large, pure white, and 

 very conspicuous ; corolla 

 scarlet. The variety Bal- 

 fouriana is a form ob- 

 tained from seed. It is a 

 bolder - growing plant, 

 with very large panicles 

 of flowers ; calyx pure 

 white, much inflated ; 

 corolla a deep crimson. 

 Spring and summer 

 months. 



Cochliostema. ^ A small genus belonging to 

 the order CommelynacetB, popularly known as Spider- 

 worts. This genus is distinguished by the peculiar 

 formation and arrangement of the stamens. The 

 plant here enumerated enjoys an abundance of 

 heat and moisture; it should be potted in rough 

 peat, with a small portion of loam and sand added. 



C Jacobiana. — This is a plant of noble aspect. 

 Its leaves are arranged in a rosulate manner, and 

 these measure from two to three or four feet in 

 length, and four to six inches in breadth ; panicle 

 large and spreading ; flowers slightly fragrant ; 

 sepals rosy-pink, petals larger than the sepals, 

 violet-blue, fringed on the edges with long pur., 

 plish hairs. Spring and early summer. Ecuador. 



Coffea. — This is a genus of plants belonging to 

 the Cinchonaceie. They are very ornamental shrubs. 



