Clerodendron
This genus comprises about seventy species, most of them broadly dispersed over the warmer regions of the globe; a few are natives of America (mostly in the West Indies or Columbia), and one is broadly diffused over the maritime regions of tropical America. To those described on pp. 341-2, Vol. I., the following should now be added. They require stove treatment. C. Balfourianum (Balfour's). A variety of C. Thomsonae. C. delectum (chosen). fl. showy, freely produced in large, dichotomous cymes; calyx pure white; corolla of a deep, rich magenta-rose. 1885. A handsome, garden variety, raised from C. Thomsonae Balfourianum. C. illustre (illustrious). fl., calyx reddish-scarlet, sub-globose; corolla bright scarlet, the tube 3/4in. long, the limb eight to nine lines in diameter; panicle branches and pedicels red. l. cordate, acute, 7in. to 8in. long, 6in. to 6 1/2in. broad, repand-toothed, glabrous or nearly so above, scaly beneath. Celebes. A showy plant, producing its large panicles of flowers when only 1 1/2ft. high.
C. macrosiphon (long-tubed). fl. forming a small, sub-sessile, terminal, reduced cyme; calyx 1/4in. long; corolla white, the tube 4in. to 4 1/2in. long, 1/10in. in diameter, hairy, erect, slightly curved; limb one-sided, 1 1/2in. in diameter, five-lobed to the middle. May. l. 2in. to 3in. long, oblanceolate or elliptic-lanceolate, acuminate, coarsely and irregularly toothed or almost lobulate, the base gradually narrowed into a petiole. Zanzibar, 1881. A slender, erect shrub. (B. M. 6695.) SYN. Cyclonema macrosiphon.
C. Minahassae (Minahassa). fl. yellowish-white, in broad, terminal, cymose panicles; anthers purple, exserted. fr. very ornamental, the calyx growing out so as to resemble a red flower 3in. across, with a round, blue berry in the centre. l. opposite, obovate, serrated. Stems square. Celebes, 1886. An ornamental shrub.
C. nutans (drooping). fl. white, scentless, slightly ascending, ternate; calyx reddish-purple; corolla lobes obovate, obtuse, almost equal, flat; stamens longer than the corolla; panicles oblong, loosely pendulous. December. l. ternate or opposite, long-acuminate, entire, attenuated at base, very shortly petiolate. h. 2ft. to 4ft. Sylhet, &c., 1830. Shrub. (B. M. 3049.) C. Rumphianum (Rumph's). fl. at first flesh-coloured, deepening to red and crimson, long-tubed, in terminal panicles; stamens red, exserted. l. large, roundish-ovate, dark green. Java, 1887. A handsome shrub. C. Thomsonae Balfourianum (Balfour's). fl. light crimson; calyx rather larger than in the parent. 1885.