CLERODENDRUM INFORTUNATUM. 
Class. 
DID YN AMI A. 
(Unfortunate Clerodendrum.) 
Order . 
AN GIOSPERMIA. 
Natural Order. 
VERBE N ACE iE. 
Generic Character — Calyx campanulate, Ave- 
rted, five-toothed. Corolla with a cylindrical tube, 
;en elongated ; limb five-parted, lobes equal. Stamens 
ur, didynamous, exserted, secund. Germen four- 
lied, one-seeded. Stigma bifid, acute. 
I- Specific Character. — Plant an evergreen shrub. 
m 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. Flowers 
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 
gether a number of remarkably well cultivated specimens of that showy and 
I tensely bright scarlet-flowering stove plant, the Clerodendrum squamatum , and a 
nailer-blossomed closely allied species often confounded with it, and therefore 
"oposed by Dr. Lindley to be named C. fallax. The gorgeous aspect of these 
>lendid plants cannot fail to have fixed the attention of every one who has been 
rtunate enough to see them ; and it is, therefore, with the greatest pleasure that 
e 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 
ea to those who are unacquainted with its origin, and the character of the plant 
hich bears it. To prevent the spread of unfavourable impressions regarding it, it 
ay be useful to state, that it was applied in contradistinction to another species 
eful for its medicinal virtues, and on that account called C. fortunalum , 
r Linnaeus. The same reason will account for another, alike dangerous as a 
bstitute for its more favoured ally, being named C . calamitosum . 
According to the account given of C. infortunatum in the “ Botanical Register " 
r Dr. Lindley, it was first received from Ceylon into the collection of the Duke 
Northumberland at Sion House in 1843, through the instrumentality of 
r. Nightingale. Our drawing was taken from a plant which flowered in the 
ursery of Mr. Glendinning at Chiswick, and which was exhibited and obtained 
e Large Silver Medal at the Horticultural Society’s Show on the 15th of June. 
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