The Illustrated Dictionary of Gardening

Every genus a Victorian gardener could grow — Abelia to Zygopetalum across four volumes, with each plant's history, species, and culture, by the Curator of Kew.

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Clausena

(commemorative of P.Clauson, a Danish botanist of the seventeenth century). ORD. Rutaceae. A genus of about fourteen species of stove evergreen trees, occurring for the most part in India, a few being found in Africa and tropical Australia. Flowers small, disposed in loose panicles. Leaves impar-pinnate; leaflets stalked, pubescent. They thrive in rich loam; young cuttings, ripened at the bottom, and taken off at a joint, will root in sand, under a hand glass, in heat.

C. corymbiflora (corymb-flowered). fl. white. Loyalty Islands, 1878. C. pentaphylla (five-leaved). fl. white. June to august. l. with five or seven pairs of leaflets. h. 20ft. India, 1800.

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