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CLERODENDRON MACROPHYLLUM. 
the splendid new species of Clerodendron, with the name of 
which I have headed this paper. 
All the frequenters of floral meetings are alive to the splendour 
of the Glory Tree (an admirable name Tor the genus), as it is 
usually seen with its immense panicles of brilliant scarlet flowers. 
No tribe of plants can be more effective, and the only desire that 
could be formed with reference to them is an increase of equally 
beautiful subjects —others of different colour, retaining the same 
noble aspect, was all that could be wished, and here that wish 
is gratified. C. macrophyllum may justly claim to rank with the 
best species of the genus for its distinguished character, even 
with the gorgeous C. Kempfceri. It is of erect habit, with leaves 
that surpass all others of the family in enduring richness. They 
are about a foot and a half long, proportionably wide, glossy, 
thick, and leathery. The flowers are of the purest white, pro¬ 
duced by thousands on a large, partially drooping, branched 
panicle, some idea of which may be formed by imagining a 
gigantic feather surmounting a branch of Magnolia. No com¬ 
parison exists between it and any other white-flowering species 
known to us; and I have no doubt that, as soon as it can be 
multiplied sufficiently, we shall find it universally adopted as a 
showing plant. 
It was received from Java, where Mr. Lobb, the very fortunate 
collector for Messrs. Yeitch, says it grows on sandy places, in an 
elevated district, known as the Seribu mountains. 
Another remarkable plant was present, in the form of a 
Fuchsia, a species not named, with flowers somewhat like those 
of F. fulgens, but larger, a shade or two darker, and destitute of 
a corolla; the foliage smaller, and rather rugose. Its manner of 
growing was particularly remarkable : in the centre of the plant 
an erect, stout stem threw out several tiers of branches, pro¬ 
ceeding in an exactly horizontal position, in alternate pairs, and 
growing gradually smaller as they approached the top ; the out¬ 
line of the plant was precisely that of a cone, and from the ex¬ 
tremity of each branch hung the clusters of pendent flowers, 
which, seen thus symmetrically arranged, had a most pleasing 
effect; and this, I was told, was a constant habit of the plant, 
independent of any training. It looked like a pyramid of 
flowers. J. R. 
