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arboretum and fruticetum.

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Spec. Char., fyc. Climbing, glabrous. Branches rough, rooting. Leaflets 9,ovate, acuminated, coarsely serrated. Racemes terminal, corymbose, onlong peduncles. Tube of corolla 5 times longerthan the calyx. (Don's Mill., iv. p. 225.) Abeautiful hardy climber, which fixes itself to treesor walls by its roots, like ivy. The flowers areproduced at the ends of the shoots, in large ^bunches; and have long swelling tubes, shaped /?jjsomewhat like a trumpet. The corolla is large,scarlet, and orange-coloured. It is a native ofCarolina, Florida , and Virginia, and flowers inAugust and September. It was introduced in1640, and is frequent in British gardens, where itgrows vigorously, producing tufts of leaves andfine flowers, abundantly at the extremity of thebranches, but being rather apt to become naked {|below. One of the finest specimens of this plantin Europe is that trained against the Palace Pitti at Florence , which, when we saw it in 1819, was,if our recollection does not deceive us, upwards of 60 ft. high, and extendingproportionably in width. It is quite hardy in England; but in the northof France they cover the trunk with straw during winter, for a few years,till it has become perfectly ligneous. Price of plants, in the London nurse-ries, 50s. per hundred; in pots, Is. 6 d. each; seeds, Is. 6d. per ounce: at Boll-wyller, 50 cents, or 15 francs per hundred: and at New York, 50 cents.

Variety.

A T. >\ 2 major Hort. has the flowers larger and of a paler scarlet: theleaves, also, differ considerably, both in size and shape. It is aclimbing shrub, a native of Carolina, which flowers in August, andwas introduced in 1724.*

1 2. T. grandiflo'ra Swt. The great-flowered Tecoma.

Identification. Sweet’s Hort. Brit., p. 14.; Don’s Mill., 4. p. 225.; Lodd. Cat. , ed. 1836.

Synonymes. BignbmVi grandiflbra Thunb . Fl. Jap., 253., Blum. B>jdr. y 778.; B. chinensis Lam.Diet. , 1. p. 424.; Rjotsjo Kccmpf. Amcen., p. 856., Banks Icon. Kcempf., t. 21.; Incarvillea grandi-flbra Spreng. Syst., 2. p. 836.; Tung-von-fa, Chinese .

Engravings. Banks Icon. Ksempf., t. 21.; and ourj?g. 1092.

Spec. Char., Sfc. Slightly scandent, glabrous. Leaflets 7—9, ovate, acumi-nated, coarsely serrated, attenuated at the base. Panicles terminal,pendulous. Calycine segments lanceo-late, length of the tube of the corolla.

Branches rooting. Young shoots spottedwith dark purple. Leaves 6—10 in. long,

Petioles marginate. Flowers pendulous,forming terminal cross-armed panicles,large, of a tawny orange colour on theoutside, and of a tolerably bright red-dish orange colour inside, 1 with brighterstreaks. Nectary a glandular crenatedring. Anterior lobe of stigma recurved.

(Don's Mill., iv. p. 225.) A climbing

shrub, a native of China and Japan . -

Introduced in 1800, and flowering in July and August. This species,when first introduced, was thought to be rather tender; but it is nowfound to be almost as hardy as Tecoma radicans, which it greatly re-sembles, but is of a slighter habit, though it has much larger flowers, andis altogether a very splendid plant. There is a fine specimen at Kew, infront of one of the stoves; a large one in the Horticultural Society’s Garden,which has stood against the conservative wall there since 1825; and oneagainst the wall in the Hackney arboretum. Price of plants, in the London nurseries, 2s. 6d. each.