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GARDEN PLANTS— THEIR GEOGRAPHY, LVII. 
LAMIALES. 
THE VERBENA, MONARDA AND AJUGA ALLIANCE. 
( Continued.') 
Clerodendron in 70 species are natives of the 
tropical and sub -tropical parts of the world — 
mostly the old world. They are trees, shrubs and 
climbers. C. feetidum and C. trichotomum are 
hardy as to their roots in Central New Jersey or 
even further north, and although frozen in severe 
winters the latter becomes quite a little tree during 
a series of mild ones. Further south C. fragrans in 
variety may be grown, and in Northern Florida C. 
infortunatum sometimes attains to tree size. In 
Southern Florida C.squamatum and even the roots 
of C. Balfouri hold over, and no doubt both there 
and in Southern California several others from the 
Himalayas, Eastern Asia and Australasia would 
succeed. 
The Caryopterideie is a small tribe of five gen- 
era and less than a dozen species. 
Caryoptcris is a genus of five species from 
China, Mongolia, the Himalayas and Japan. Some 
of the Himalayan plants have been transferred to 
clerodendron Gardening. 
clerodendron. C. mastacanthus is a good shrub, 
or herbaceous plant where the frost continues too 
long around zero. It has light blue flowers and is 
a very excellent bee plant. Florists sell it under 
the absurd name of “spirea.” During the 1898-99 
winter north of Philadelphia, plants under the shel- 
ter of deciduous trees sometimes escaped root kill- 
ing while others were killed completely. 
The Avicen- 
nias are the “white 
mangroves,” a 
genus of maybe 
one true but var- 
iable sped e s. 
They are curious 
in the growth ( f 
their roots and 
young shoots and 
form impenetrable 
thickets along the 
tropical seashores. 
One or two forms 
extend north t o 
the Keys of Flor- 
ida and the mouth 
of the Mississippi. 
The genus is pe- 
culiar enough to be tribally important. 
Ocimjiin “basil” has 45 ipecics of sub-shrubs, 
and annual herbs from the warm regions of the 
world. 
Coleus is a genus of sub tropical and tropical 
frutescent evergreens in 60 species from the Malay 
Islands, the East Indies, Australia, and tropical 
and South Africa. They are well, known bedding 
plants prone to vary greatly in the hue and maiking 
of their foliage, but very tender and wanting in 
durability with temperatures below 60 degrees 
Fahr. C. fruiticosus, however, has long been a 
favorite window plant for English cottages where 
but little heat is employed. It has good green 
foliage and thyrses of blue flowers. It is South 
African and although employed as a stock for 
grafting the tropical kinds into crazy quilt kind of 
plants, I don’t know that it has been employed as 
parent for a set of hardier hybrids. It might be 
\Vorth trying. In i860 C. Blumei was about the 
only one with pointed foliage in collections, but 
two or three years afterwards C. nigricans and C. 
Verschaffeltii made their appearance, soon followed 
by C. Gibsonii, and then in rapid succession a 
whole host of crossed varieties, boomed by the 
success of a gardener at the Royal Horticultural 
Gardens, Chiswick. They were immensely popular 
lor some years. C. thrysoideus and some others 
are good blue winter blooming plants for warm 
climates, and C. tuberosus is an esculent of consid- 
erable repute in some parts of the tropics. 
Lavandula “lavender” has 20 species in Med- 
iterranean countries and the East Indies. L. vera 
is the well known odoriferous shrub sometimes 
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