170 
CLERODENDRUM INFORTUNATUM. 
A decidedly preferable feature in its peculiarities to other species is the quality 
of blooming in a much dwarfer state. Several specimens not a foot high have been 
flowered by Mr, Glendinning, and it is in this condition, with its noble foliage 
hanging upon the very edge and almost concealing the pot that holds it, that its 
superiority is most conspicuous ; and it will hence be a plant admitting of a 
much more extended culture than other kinds, which, from their large size and the 
room they occupy, are unfitted for limited collections. 
But independent of this advantage, the individual attractiveness of its blossoms 
is a weighty recommendation. The flowers are larger and superior in the depth 
and vivid glow of colour. It is also distinguished by its coloured panicle and large 
leafy calyx, the flowers being collected into heads and having very short pedicels 
(footstalks), and lastly, in the glossy hue of its ample dark-green foliage. 
It is a plant of rapid growth, readily increased from cuttings, which soon strike 
root planted in heath soil and sand. A moist stove-heat, with abundance of water, 
and a powerfully nutritious soil, are necessary to maintain the vigorous character 
of the species. 
Linnaeus founded the name of this genus, as well as those of several of its 
members, on the variable medicinal properties with which difi'erent species are 
gifted. It is compounded of two Greek words^Cleros. hazard, and dendron^ 
a tree. 
