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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 beei! 
flowered by Mr. Glendinning, and it is in this condition, with its noble foliagii 
hanging upon the very edge and almost concealing the pot that holds it, that it 
superiority is most conspicuous ; and it will hence be a plant admitting of 
much more extended culture than other kinds, which, from their large size and th 
room they occupy, are unfitted for limited collections. 
But independent of this advantage, the individual attractiveness of its blossom 
is a weighty recommendation. The flowers are larger and superior in the dept 
and vivid glow of colour. It is also distinguished by its coloured panicle and larg 
leafy calyx, the flowers being collected into heads and having very short pedicel 
(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 strik 
root planted in heath soil and sand. A moist stove-heat, with abundance of wate: 
and a powerfully nutritious soil, are necessary to maintain the vigorous charackf 
of the species. 
Linnaeus founded the name of this genus, as well as those of several of i 
members, on the variable medicinal properties with which different species ai 
gifted. It is compounded of two Greek words— Cleros* hazard, and dendrot 
a tree. 
