uncié longior, pube minutá appressä densá extús vestita; tubus subarcuatus, 
eompressiusculus, basi tumidiusculus, in faucem Splo longiorem depresso- 
campanulatam subtus ventricosam plicisque nonnullis longitudinalibus stria- 
tam dilatatus ; limbus brevis, quinquelobus, sursüm obliquatus, lobis rotundatis 
intàs villosis; labii inferioris lacinie tripa margine subcrispate et eroso-re- 
pande, media ceteris porrectior ; superioris brevioris brevidsque fissi lacinia: 
bine refleza, medio infern? albe. Stam. 5: 4 fertilia ochroleuca, fauce duplo 
breviora, summo tubo inserta, ex utrinque per paria conniventia (pari infe- 
riore paulo breviore), filamenta inferné secun latus internum pilis flavo- 
capitatis (sterilis consimilibus) eristata: 1 sterile rectum, fauce exsertum, 
medio albo-barbatım, penicillo corolle concoleri terminatum, de infra 
medium deorsum attenuatum atque glabrum : anther (ob loculum inferiorem 
custratum) unilobe, lineari-oblonge, ockroleucæ; loculus cucullato-dehiscens, 
receptaculo fusco adnatus. Germen ovato-oblongum, acuminatum, Compres- 
sum, nudiusculum, 2-loculare, dissepimento contrario, utrinque placentifero: 
stylus glaber, partim persistens; stigma cuspis oblonga styli continua, 
compressa, acuta, bilamelloso-partita, styli concolor, extus levis, lobis re- 
plicatis. Don MSS. 
One of the finest shrubs that have been introduced iuto 
our hothouses, and now brought to flower for the first time 
in this country at the botanic garden of the Comtesse des 
Vandes, near Bayswater; an establishment superintended 
with great skill and intelligence by Mr. Mackay. 
Whether it is Catesby's species, the origin of the BIGNONIA 
cærulea of Linnæus, or not, is a point about which we have 
not been able to convince ourselves. A prototype, though 
somewhat dilapidated sample, of Catesby's plant is preserved 
in the Banksian Herbarium at Mr. Brown's; in that the leaf- 
lets of the foliage are considerably larger and wider apart 
than here; but then there is also in the same collection 
the leaf of a plant, raised, as said, by Miller at Chelsea, 
from seed of the species to which Catesby's plant belongs, 
and received indeed from that naturalist himself: now this 
leaf we cannot well distinguish from those of the present 
plant; so that it is not impossible but that the smallness of 
the leaflets and their closer order may bave arisen from thé 
culture of so large a shrub in the confinement of a gar- 
den-pot and inastove. Upon the whole, we are inclined 
to believe the two plants to be of one species. 
Catesbys plant is said to have been obtained from the 
Bahama islands: the present from the Brazils, and to have 
been introduced within these three years. But we know no 
good authority for the last statement. 
Two other species were observed by Messrs. Humboldt 
and Bonpland, and published in their great work on the 
