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BIGNONIA SPECIOSA. SHOWY-FLOWERED 
BIGNONIA. 
KEKE KER EEEEEEERERES 
Class and Order. 
DipynamiA ANGIOSPERMIA. 
( Nat. Ord.—Bienontscez. ) 
Generic Character. 
Cal. campanulatus, integerrimus, repandus vel subden- 
tatus. Cor. campanulata, limbo bilabiato, 5-lobo. Fila- 
mentum 5 sterile. Stigma bilamellatum. Capsula silique- 
formis, bilocularis, dissepimento valvis parallelo. Semina 
transversa, biseriata, membranaceo-alata. 
Specific Character. 
BienontA speciosa ; foliis binatis cirrhiferis foliolis obovato- 
oblongis lucidis, pedunculis terminalibus bifloris, sta- 
minibus pistillisque inclusis. 
This is a very ornamental species, when trained along 
the roof ofa stove. A plant was received at the garden of 
the Caledonian Horticultural Society from Woburn Abbey 
in November, 1839, and flowered in April and May, 1841. 
It had been imported under the name here adopted from 
Mr. Tweepie at Buenos Ayres, having been found by him 
in Uraguay. 
Descr. Stem long, straggling, woody, climbing. Leaves 
petiolate; petioles (four lines and a half long) opposite, 
spreading wide, bearing at the apex two leaflets, and hay- 
ing a long, simple cirrhus between these ; leaflets (about — 
three inches long, an inch and a half broad) undulate, ellip- 
tical, glabrous, shining, bright green, reticulate, on two — 
slightly unequal, partial petioles, less than half the length — 
of the general petioles, midrib_prominent behind ; petzole, 
cirrhus, 
