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CLERODENDRUM
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TOMENTOSUM.
Downy Clerodendrum.
CLASS XII. ORDER II.
DIDYNJMIA JNGIOSPERMIA. Two Chives longer. Seeds covered.
GENERIC CHARACTER.
CAtYX campanulatus, quinquefitlus. Corolla
tubo elongato, limbo quinquepartito, sequali.
Stamina exserta. Gerraen quadriloculare,
loculis monospermis. Drupa tetrapyrena,
SPECIFIC
CLEEODENDKUM tomentosura, foliis ellipticis
acntis intcgris calycibusque tomentosis;
corymbis congestis,—Brown. Prodromus
Florce Novce HoUandice et Insulce Fun
Diemen, vol. 1. p. 510.
CUP bell-shaped, five-cleft. Tube of the blossom
elongated, with the limb equally fiveparted.
Stamens longer than the tubs.
Seed-bud four-celled, the cells one-seeded.
Fruit a dry berry including four nuts.
CHARACTER.
DOWNY Clerodendruni with elliptic acute entire
leaves downy as well as the cups; corymbs
crowded.
REFERENCE TO THE PLATS.
1. Empalenient.
3. A blossom spread open.
3. Seed-bud and pointal.
4. A ripe fruit.
THE Clerodendrum tomentosum is found naturally growing about Port Jackson and some other parts
of the eastern and northern coasts of New Holland, according to Mr. Brown's Prodromus of the
Flora of that country, just published. This long expected and interesting work contains descriptions
of about t«-o thousand plants, (of which, scarcely a third part have before been published) in the first
volume, and the second is now in the press.
Ahhoutrh the Clerodendrum tomentosum has been in England above ten years, no figure of it has
before been given in this country. All the plants which we have seen of it form erect shrubs from
four to six feet in height. The time of blossoming is March and April. We have been favoured with
specimens in blossom from the botanic garden of the Company of Apothecaries at Chelsea, and with
the ripe fruit from Sir Abraham Hunie's collection at Wormley-bury, but are uncertain who first introduced
it.
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