CHAP. LXXIX.

BIGNON/A'CELE. TE'CQMA.

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having the dissepiment parallel with the valves. Seeds disposed in2 rows, imbricate, transverse, with membranous wings. (Don’s Mill., iv.p. 216.) — Usually climbing shrubs, furnished with tendrils, rarely erecttrees or shrubs. Leaves opposite, simple, conjugate, trifoliolate, digitate,or pinnate. Flowers axillary and terminal, usually panicled. Corollastrumpet-shaped, white, yellow, orange-coloured, purple, violaceous, or rose-coloured. The only hardy species is a subevergreen climber, a native ofNorth America ; and, like all the plants of this order, easily propagated bycuttings of the roots, or shoots.

LA 1. B. capreola'ta L. The tendriled Bignonia, or Trumpet Flower.

Identification. Lin. Sp., 870.; Hort. Cliff, 317.; Don’s Mill., 4. p. 217.

Engravings. Bot. Mag., t. 864.; Breyn. Icon., 33. t. 25.; Du Ham. Arb., 1. p. 104. t. 40.; Bocc. Sic.,31. t. 15. f. 31.; Zan. Hist., 74. f. 2. ed. 2. 49. t. 33. j and out fig. 1090.

Spec . Char., 8fc - Climbing. Leaves conjugate; leaflets cordate-oblong; lowerones simple. Tendrils small, trifid; the lobes bifurcate. Peduncles axillary,1-flowered, crowded. Calyx entire. Corollas red-dish yellow. Follicles flattened, 1 ft. long. ( Don’sMill., iv. p, 217.) A climbing shrub, a native ofNorth America , in the more southern parts; flower- ^ing in June and July. The follicles are said, asabove, to be a foot long; but, on an open wall, inthe Horticultural Society’s Garden, they do notexceed 6 in. or 8 in. It was introduced in 1710, andforms a very ornamental wall climber in Britishgardens. This is an excellent plant for coveringdead walls, from its great capability of extension, itsbeing subevergreen, and the singular shape of itslarge and handsome leaflets. It requires a shelteredsituation, and favourable exposure, in order toflower freely. The plant of this species in the Horticultural Society’sGarden ripens seeds. Price of plants, in the London nurseries, 2s. each •at Bollwyiler, where it is a green-house plant, 4 francs; and at New York ,50 cents.

Genus II.

TE'COMA Juss. The Tecoma. Lin. Syst. Didynamia Angiospermia.

Identification. Juss. Gen., p. 139.; R. Br. Prod., 471. j H. B. et Kunth Nov. Gen. Amer., 3.'p. 142. •Lindl. Nat. Syst. Bot., 2d edit., p. 282.; Don’s Mill., 4. p. 223.

Synonyme. Bignbma sp. of Lin. and others.

Derivation. From Tecomaxochitl , the Mexican name of one of the species.

Gen. Char., fyc. Calyx campanulate, 5-toothed. Corolla with a short tube,and a campanulate throat; limb 5-lobed, bilabiate. Stamens 4, didynamous;that is, 2^ long and 2 short; with the rudiment of a fifth sterile filament.Stigma bilamellate. Capsule silique-formed, 2-celled, having the dissepi-ment contrary to the valves. Seeds disposed in 2 rows, imbricate, winged,transverse. (Don’s Mill., iv. p. 223.) — The only hardy species yet intro-duced is a deciduous climbing shrub.

L 1. T. radi'cans Juss. The rooting -branched Tecoma, or Trumpet Flower.

Identification. Juss. Gen., p. 139.; Don’s Mill., 4. p. 225.

hynom/mes. Bignbnia radlcans Lin. Sp., 871., Hort. Cliff., 317., Ups., 178., Gron. Virg., 73.,Mill. Icon., t. 65., Du Ham. Art., 1. p. 103. t. 1., Sab. Hort., 2. t. 84, Du MoiHarbk., 1. p. 116,Wangenk. Amer., 68. t. 26. f. 53, Willi. Arb., 47, Curt. Bot. Mag., t. 485, Riu. Mon., p. 101,Mor Hist., 3 p. 612. f. 15. t. 3. f. 1, Corn . Can., 102. t. 103. ; BignbnSa radlcans mijor Hort.,ijelsemium Clematis Barrel. Icon., 59.; Bignbnwz/raxinifhlia Catesb. Car .: Jasmin de Virginie,rr. I Wurzeln Bignonia, Ger .; Esschenbladige Bignonia, Dutch.

Menvatton. Wurzeln is, simply, rooting : and EsschenbUidige, ash-leaved.

hngravtngs. Bot. Mag., t. 485.; and our fig. 1091.

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