imbricata, alata, transversa. 
1117 
'TECOMA capensis. 
Cape Bignonia. 
iocis 
- DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA. 
Nat. ord. BiGNONIACER. 
TECOMA Juss. Calyx campanulatus 5-dentatus. Corolla tubo brevi; 
fauce campanulatà ; limbo Lego n bilabiato. Stamina quatuor didy- 
nama, cum rudimento quinti. Stigma bilamellatum. Capsula siliquee- 
formis bilocularis; dissepimentum valvis contrarium. Semina biseriata, 
Arbores aut rarids frutices. Folia oppo- 
sita digitata aut sepiüs imparipinnata. Flores terminales paniculati flavi 
v. incarnati. . Kunth. synopsis 2. 244. 2d i 
T. capensis; foliis imparipinnatis quadrijugis: foliolis ovatis serratis glabris, 
. axillis yenarum subtis barbatis, racemis pedunculatis. 
Bignonia capensis. Hort. Reg. Kewensis. na Sic 
— Rami. teretes, glabri.. Folia imparipinnata, sub-4-juga ; foliolis ovatis, 
gros se serratis, basi cuneatis integris, glabris, axillis venarum subtüs fasciculis 
pilorum barbatis; petiolus subalatus. Flores dense racemosi, in longo 
pedunculo insidentes. Pedicelli filiformes, bracteis longiores. Calyx brevis, 
campanulatus, subtruncatus, 5-dentatus, dentibus inferioribus obsoletis. Co- 
rolla aurantiaco-coecinea, fer? duas uncias longa, tubo longo, arcuato, bast 
intüs villoso ; limbo patente, obliquo, 4-partito, laciniis subequalibus obtusis, 
superiore emarginatá ; fauce venosá. F ilamenta corollä longiora, basi pilosa. 
Anthere basi divaricate, glabriuscule. Stylus filiformis, glaber. Stigma 
bibamellatum. Capsula-siliqueformis, bilocularis, dissepimento valvis con- 
trario, seminibus alatis. - 
For the accompanying drawing of this noble species 
we are indebted to William Townsend Aiton, Esq. by 
whom it was communicated from His Majesty's Gardens 
at Kew, last September. It is a native of the Cape of 
Good Hope, whence seeds were sent to Kew by Mr. 
Bowie in 1823. A hardy greenhouse plant of great beauty. 
It grows freely in light rich soil, and cuttings root readily 
under a hand-glass. 
_ Branches climbing, round, smooth. Leaves unequally 
pinnated, toothed, of about four pair; leaflets ovate, coarsely 
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