CLERODENDRON MACROSIPHON 
CLERODENDRON chance-tree (Greek); some species are poisonous and 
some useful as medicine. MACROSIPHON long tube . 
Ghost flower. 
Verbenaceae. 
East Africa. 
White. 
a bushy shrub to three feet 
tall, needing full sun, flower- 
ing freely and frequently; 
flowers fragrant at night, 
short-lived. 
by woody cuttings or seeds. 
long slender corolla-tube 
with unequal lobes, four 
stamens and long slender 
style. 
A, fruit with 4 unequal lobes. 
R, calyx with 4-lobed ovary in its cup (corolla 
has fallen). 
C, calyces of 3 flowers (corollas fallen) and 
bracts. 
D, transverse section of ovary, showing 4 ovules. 
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