CLERODENDRUM INFORTUNATUM. 
(Unfortunate Clerodendrum.) 
Class. 
DIDYNAMIA. 
Order, 
ANGIOSPERMIA. 
Natural Order. 
VERBENACE^. 
Generic GnAi\.AcrE.Ti.— Calyx campanulato, five- 
parted, five-toothed. Corolla with a eyiindrioal tube, 
often elongated ; limb five-parted, lobes equal. Stamens 
four, didynanious, exserted, secund. Germen four- 
celled, one-seeded. Stigma bifid, acute. 
Specific Character. — Plant an evergreen shrub. 
Stem erect, quadrangular, slightly furrowed. Leaves 
large, somewhat roundly and deeply cordate, broadly 
toothed at the margin, upper surface pilose, under sur- 
face tomentose. Panicle coloured, pubescent. Floivers 
racemose and nearly sessile in heads at the end of 
the panicle branches. Calyx large, five-cleft. Corolla 
segments smooth, obovate, obtuse, a little shorter than 
the stamens. 
Almost every Floral Exhibition in the neighbourhood of the Metropolis brings 
together a number of remarkably well cultivated specimens of that showy and 
intensely bright scarlet-flowering stove plant, the Clerodendrum squamatum^ and a 
smaller-blossomed closely allied species often confounded with it, and therefore 
proposed by Dr. Lindley to be named C fallax. The gorgeous aspect of these 
splendid plants cannot fail to have fixed the attention of every one who has been 
fortunate enough to see them ; and it is, therefore, with the greatest pleasure that 
we are enabled to offer another, in many respects even more beautiful and desirable. 
The singular specific name is by no means calculated to convey a favourable 
idea to those who are unacquainted with its origin, and the character of the plant 
which bears it. To prevent the spread of unfavourable impressions regarding it, it 
may be useful to state, that it was applied in contradistinction to another species 
useful for its medicinal virtues, and on that account called C. fortunatum^ 
by LinnsBus. The same reason will account for another, alike dangerous as a 
substitute for its more favoured ally, being named C. calamitosum. 
According to the account given of C. infortunatum in the "Botanical Register" 
by Dr. Lindley, it was first received from Ceylon into the collection of the Duke 
of Northumberland at Sion House in 1843, through the instrumentality of 
Mr. Nightingale. Our drawing was taken from a plant which flowered in the 
Nursery of Mr. Glendinning at Chiswick, and which was exhibited and obtained 
the Large Silver Medal at the Horticultural Society's Show on the 15th of June. 
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