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BIGNONIA Caroline. 
Lady Caroline’s Bignonia. 
DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA. 
Nat. ord. BicNoNiACEX. Trib. 1. BIGNON1A4, Boer. 
BIGNONIA. Bot. Reg. 3. 249. 
B. Caroline ; glabra, gracilis, foliis conjugatis, foliolis cordatis acuminatis 
subpubescentibus, paniculis terminalibus paucifloris, calyce campanulato 
truncato obsoleté 5-dentato pubescente, corollá arcuatá tomentosa laci- 
niis crispis patulis. Supra 1842. sub folio 45. 
All that we know of this charming plant is that it flowered 
with the Earl of Ilchester at Melbury in 1842, at which time 
we were favoured with specimens ; and that it again blossomed 
with his Lordship in great abundance in May 1844, when the 
accompanying drawing was made. 
It is a most desirable plant for conservatories, because, in 
addition to the beauty of its snow-white flowers, which the 
plant pours forth with exuberant luxuriance, they are sweet- 
scented; an unusual circumstance with Bignonias. We pre- 
sume it to be a Buenos Ayres species. 
It is surprising that those who struggle and strive to outdo 
their neighbours in preparing fine things for exhibition, should 
not turn their attention more to the small growing Dignonias, 
such as this and picta for example; and by means of the wire 
trellises now employed in pot cultivation, force them to con- 
fine themselves within portable dimensions. They would 
make most beautiful objects, and would certainly reward the 
gardener for whatever pains he might bestow upon them. 
Even B. venusta itself might no doubt be compelled to submit 
to such treatment, and to flower in abundance, if it had plenty 
of bottom heat to enable it to form its blossom buds. Indeed, 
the whole Bignoniaceous order is full of the finest, the most 
indescribably lovely plants that the eye can rest upon, of 
