Tas. 4896. 
TECOMA Frutva. 
Fulvous-flowered Tecoma. 
Nat. Ord. BIGNONIACE®.—DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMA. 
Gen. Char. Calyx campanulatus, 5-dentatus. Corolla tubo brevi, fauce dilatata, 
limbo 5-lobo subbilabiato aut squali. Stamina 4, didynama, cum rudimento 
quinti; anthere biloculares, loculis divergentibus. Stigma bilamellosum. Cap- 
sula bilocularis, bivalvis, septo valvis contrario. Semina imbricata, alata, trans- 
versa.—Arbores fruticesve, sepe scandentes. Folia opposita, digitata aut sepius 
imparipinnata. Flores paniculati aut racemosi, sepius terminales, flavi, incar- 
nati aut albidi. De Cand. 
Tecoma fulva; fruticosa, ramis teretibus glabris junioribus subtetragonis vil- 
losis, foliis sparsis imparipinnatis multijugis, petiolo articulato inter pinnas 
anguste alato, foliolis cuneato-ovatis subsessilibus apice serratis junioribus 
villosis adultis glabris, racemis axillaribus 7—9-floris, pedicellis bibracteatis, 
calyce villoso (demum glabro) acute 5-dentato. De Cand. 
Tecoma fulva. Don, Gen. Syst. v. 4. p. 224. De Cand. Prodr. v. 9. p. 224. 
Bienonta fulva. Cav. Ic. v. 6. p. 58. ¢. 580. 
There cannot be a question but that the handsome plant here 
figured is the Bignonia fulva* of Cavanilles, till recently appa- 
rently only known to that author and to Louis Née, who is re- 
ported to have gathered it “im siccis arenosis portus Arice in 
confinio Peruvie:” this is about latitude 18° 26’ south. Our 
flowering specimens were reared by Messrs. Veitch, of the Exeter 
and Chelsea Exotic Nurseries, and sent by them in November, 
1855. We have herbarium specimens from various parts of 
Peru, gathered by Mr. Cuming (No. 932), Mr. McLean, Mr. 
* A much more beautiful, indeed truly lovely and somewhat allied species of 
Tecoma is found in Chiloe by Captain King, by Mr. Bridges (“ Pil-pil” of the 
natives, climbing up the trees to a height of forty or fifty feet), by Mr. W. Lobb 
(No. 474), and in the island of Huaffo by Dr. Eights. The flowers are quite 
tubular, apparently rich scarlet ; the leaves pinnated, with oblong, subcoriaceous, 
slightly serrated leaflets, and a slightly winged rachis. This I cannot doubt is 
the Tecoma ? Guarume, De Cand. (Bignonia alata, Pav. MSS.), although stated to 
be an inhabitant of Peru. De Candolle himself suspects that the locality given 
by Pavon is not correct. 
FEBRUARY Ist, 1856. 
