Plate 255. 
CLEEODEKDEON THOMSONS, 
Yae s BALPOUEII. 
The appearance of this plant in our pages indicates a change 
in the character of our Magazine, which we hope will make it 
still more interesting to our numerous friends. We have 
hitherto confined ourselves to those plants which were cultivated 
in the open air or greenhouse, hut we have felt for some time 
that as the efforts of the hybridizers were no longer confined 
to these, but had extended to the denizens of the stove and 
orchid-house, and that owing to the more wide-spread taste for 
horticulture a larger number of persons cultivate these flowers 
than formerly, we should meet their wishes and give a greater 
variety to our Magazine, by figuring from time to time such 
plants as were valuable for their decorative effect, and not mere 
botanical curiosities. In so doing we shall endeavour to avoid 
clashing with any other periodicals of a similar character. 
Clerodendron Thornsonice has been exhibited during the pre¬ 
sent season in some of the collections of stove and greenhouse 
plants which have appeared at our great metropolitan exhibi¬ 
tions, but nowhere have we seen it so effective as in a small pit, 
at the establishment of M. Ambroise Verschaffelt, at Ghent, in 
Belgium, where it was trained along the rafter (in the same 
manner as we have seen the beautiful Lcipageria rosea at Messrs. 
Henderson’s), and the charming clusters of.white and crimson 
flowers profusely borne on it made it a very lovely object, 
showing also that it is of easy cultivation and free habit. 
“ Clerodendron Thornsonice , var. Balfourii , now figured, is 
exactly like the normal form, excepting that its flowers are 
large, and being stronger the crimson and white are fuller and 
clearer. It was raised from seed by Mr. M 4 Nab, of the Edin- 
