beauty. Schumacher’s description of his Bignonia tulipifera — 
proves it to be the same plant as ours, and he speaks correctly — 
of the flowers, “as large as the largest tulips.” It is the mis- — 
fortune of this plant that it does not bear its blossoms until the — 
tree has attained a considerable size, when they are difficult to — 
be seen on account of their distance from the spectator, and, in the 
present instance, the necessarily crowded state of our great stove, 
where it has perfected its blossoms. It was almost by an accident 
that they were observed at all. The species is a native of west- 
ern tropical Africa. M. de Beauvois found it at Oware. Mr. ~ 
Osborne, of the Fulham Nursery, raised it from seeds sent to — 
him from Ashantee (and to him we are indebted for our plant). — 
Schumacher found it in Guinea, and I possess fine specimens 
gathered by Mr. Ansell, who was attached to the Niger Expedi- — 
tion under the command of Captain Trotter, collected on Stir- — 
ling hills, at the confluence of the river, and equally good ones — 
gathered by the late Dr. Irving at Abeakouta. 
Dzuscr. A éree, said to attain a good size in its native coun- 
try, thirty feet high in our stove, much branched above. Leaves 
opposite, pinnate, dark green, paler and somewhat silky beneath — 
only in the young state, firm and subcoriaceous, a foot to a foot — 
and a half long, impari-pinnate. Leaflets about four pairs (ex- 
clusive of the terminal one), ovato-lanceolate, acute, quite entire, 
penninerved, having at the base, on the upper side, and just above | 
the short petiolule, two to three fleshy subglobose glands. Ra- 
ceme terminal, corymbose, large, spreading, consisting of eight to 
ten rather long and stout-pedicelled, very large, showy flowers. 
The curious calye is quite like a spatha, two and a half inches — 
long, splitting open on one side for the emission of the corolla, © 
and falcately recurved, leaning, as it were, back from the corolla: 
its texture is thick and coriaceous, externally velvety, and of a 
dingy-green colour, striated with raised lines, red within. Corolla 
at least four inches long, and as much broad, of a rich orange-re 
colour, paler within the tube, in form broad-campanulate, yet 
_ curved upwards, the ‘ube suddenly contracted at the very base, 
where it is attached to the calyx ; singularly ventricose on its 
under side, striated; the faux very broad and open; the dim 
_ Spreading, nearly equal, of five, broad, ovate, plicate, and some 
what undulated segments. Stamens four, included within th 
broad tube, spreading, two a little taller than the other two 
Anthers of two divergent, lin 
opening longitudinally. Ovary ovate, sunk into a large flesh 
gland or ring. Style as long as the stamens. 
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Fig. 1. Pistil and hypogynous gland or ri a 
3. One of the anthers i etal Be tec het ots ansverse section, Of OVATY 
