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DESCRIPTIONS OF THE SHRUBS 



drupes, which remain on the erect shrub, 2 to 6 feet high, a long time, and 

 give the plant its value, as the vfhite flowers are small and inconspicuous. 

 The only shrubhy species with brilliant scarlet flowers, Chinese Clbro- 

 DENDEON (509) — Clerodendron squam&,tum, — grows 4 to 10 feet high 

 and has opposite, round-heart-shaped, long-pointed, entire-edged leaves. 

 This is hardy in the open only in southern Florida and southern California, 

 but is frequent in cultivation in warm greenhouses North. A more hardy 

 species. Spiny Clerodendron (510) — Clerodendron fdetidum, — with 



Fig. 510. — Spiny Clerodendron. 



Fig. 511. — Sweet Clerodendron. 



lilac-purple flowers and spiny branches, can be grown as far north as Phila- 

 delphia, though it kills to the ground every winter. It sprouts up every 

 summer, and is in bloom in August. The bruised leaves have a disa- 

 greeable odor, whence the specific name. The opposite leaves are long- 

 stalked and coarsely toothed ; the flowers form a broad cluster, 4 to 8 

 inches broad. 



Another species with ill-scented leaves, toothed, opposite, but with 

 the tube of the corolla very much shorter than in the above (about the 

 length of the large calyx) , is Sweet Clerodendron (511) — Cleroden- 

 dron fragrans. The fragrance Is in the flowers, which are nearly white, 

 often double and close-clustered, somewhat hydrangea-like. Hardy 

 only in Florida and California. [Twig cuttings; seeds.] 



