Volume 10 — PLATE DCXXVIII. CLERODENDRUM PYRAMIDALE. Pyramidal Clerodendrum.

CLASS XIV. ORDER II.

DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA. Two Chives longer. Seeds covered.

GENERIC CHARACTER.

Calyx 5-fidus, campanulatus. Corollæ limbo 5-partito, æquali. Drupa 4-sperma, nuce uniloculari.

Cup 5-cleft, bell-shaped. Limb of the blossom equally 5-parted. Berry 4-seeded, nut one-celled.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

Clerodendrum foliis basi profundè cordatis, quinquelobis, margine undulatis, edentulis: panicula brachiata; pedunculis pubescentibus, trichotomis.

Clerodendrum with the leaves deeply heart-shaped at the base and five-lobed, waved on the margin and toothless; the panicle cross-armed; the peduncles pubescent, three-forked.

REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.

This before unnoticed species of Clerodendrum was introduced from the Island of Pinang, where it grows naturally wild, by T. Evans, Esq. of Stepney, in 1809. The leaves are very large, a little hispid on their upper surface: the height of the plants, in the specimens which we have seen, is from three to five feet. The plant appears to grow freely, and may be propagated by cuttings, but requires to be kept in the hot-house. The drawing was taken at Stepney last October.