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TAB. 4255.

CLERODENDRON SINUATUM. Sinuate-leaved Clerodendron

Nat. Ord. VERBENACEÆ.-DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA.

Generic Character Calyx campanulatus, 5-fidus, v. 5-dentatus. Corolla tubo cylin-

draceo sæpius elongato; limbo 5-partito, laciniis æqualibus. Stamina 4, didy- nama, exserta, secunda. Ovarium 4-loculare, loculis monospermis. Stigma bifidum, acutum. Bacca tetrapyrena, calyce sæpius ampliato cincta.-Arbores v. frutices. Folia opposita, simplicia, indivisa, nunc lobata, petiolorum basi per- sistenti. Corymbi terminales et axillares, trichotomi. Br. CLERODENDRON sinuatum; pubescens, ramis copiosis gracilibus, foliis elliptico- ovatis acuminatis sinuatis angulatisve basi subcordatis, cymis multifloris capitatis, calycis pubescentis basi bi-bracteati tubo cylindraceo laciniis subu- latis tubum subæquantibus patentibus, corollæ hypocrateriformis (albæ) tubo gracili calycem triplo excedente, limbo 5-lobo laciniis ovalibus, staminibus styloque longissime exsertis. Sent in July, 1846, from the rich collection of Messrs. Lucombe, Pince, and Co. of Exeter, who received it from Sierra Leone, discovered by Mr. Whitfield. It is one of those plants to which a drawing cannot do justice, and whose charm depends on the gracefulness of the entire plant, flowering at an early period, and bearing dense many-flowered heads from the extremity of every branch; and these blossoms, too, are highly fragrant and of the tenderest and purest white. It deserves a place in every stove- collection.

Botanical Description A low shrub, downy in almost every part, much

branched; the branches obtusely tetragonal, the younger ones green. Leaves opposite, petiolate, ovate or ovate-oblong, acute, not serrated, but sinuated or angled at the margins, penninerved, and the nerves united by transverse nervelets, the base somewhat cordate. Corymbs solitary, many-flowered, the flowers collected into a large head or capitulum at the extremity of almost every branch, peduncled. Pedicels short. Calyx small, downy, bi- bracteolate at the base, the tube cylindrical, the segments subulated, about as long as the tube, spreading. Corolla pure white, hypo- SEPTEMBER 1ST, 1846. crateriform, glabrous: the tube thrice as long as the calyx, slender, terete: the limb cut into five nearly equal, spreading, oblong, obtuse, segments. Stamens very long, longer than the whole flower from the mouth of the tube. Anther small. Ovary sub-globose. Style filiform, equalling the length of the stamens : stigma bifid.

Figures

Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Pistil:-natural size.