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CLERODENDRUM SPECIOSISSIMUM. 
it has grown amazingly, and is now a fine plant, four feet high, covered with beauti- 
ful luxuriant foliage, and each shoot terminated with large spreading panicles of rich 
scarlet flowers, each flower two inches long ; and the whole plant having open, all at 
once, several hundred blossoms. It has now been in this splendid state for more 
than six weeks, and promises to continue quite as long again. It thrives in equal 
parts of heath-mould, loam, and vegetable soil, and delights in being frequently 
washed with the syringe." 
Established plants may be obtained of the above nurserymen. Cuttings of 
the young wood will root freely, if planted in sand or mould, in a moderate 
heat, under a bell or hand-glass. 
The generic name is from KXrjpoSi accident, and devbpovy a tree, in reference to 
the varied effects in medicine by its various species. 
The specific name, under which this species was received in this country, is 
retained, and alludes to the beauty of the blossoms. 
