Tas. 6501. 
BIGNONTIA capreonata, var. atro-sanguinea. 
Native of the Southern United States. 
Nat. Ord. Biganonraceu.—Tribe BIGNONIER. 
Genus Brenonta, Linn.; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. ii. p. 1033.) 
Brienonta capreolata, Linn. Sp. Pl. 879; Bot. Mag. t. 864; DC. Prodr. vol. ix. 
p- 146; Jacq. Hort. Schenbr. t. 363; Chapm. Flor. S. U. States, p. 285; 
A. Gray, F]. N. U. States, ed. 5, p. 321. 
B. crucigera, Walt. Flor. Carolin. 169. 
Var. atro-sanguinea ; foliolis longioribus angustioribus, corolla intus et extus atro- 
purpurea, lobis brevibus triangulari-ovatis acutis. 
This very remarkable and handsome variety of the well- 
known Cross-vine of the Southern United States has been 
long cultivated in the conservatory at Kew, and differs so 
' widely from the typical form of the species, that but for 
numerous intermediates, of which we possess Herbarium 
‘Specimens, it might be assumed to be a different species. 
The leaflets are both longer and narrower than is usual, 
but as these vary from those figured here to broadly oblong, 
no importance can be attached to the form of these organs. 
In the corolla the divergence from the type is more marked ; 
in most of both wild and cultivated forms this organ is 
usually shorter, with five broad rounded and often notched 
widely-spreading lobes, so that the limb is an inch and a 
half in diameter, the colour being orange-yellow with red- 
purple on the tube; here, on the other hand, the corolla is 
wholly of a dark red-purple, with the tube nearly two 
inches long, and the lobes short, triangular-ovate, acute, 
and not one-third of an inch in breadth and length. 
Now that attention has been called to the variation of 
this plant, no doubt other as great deviations from the 
type will be introduced into cultivation. Of these I have 
seen dried specimens of one, sent from Kentucky, which 
JULY Ist, 1880. 
