TAB. 2010. 
BIGNONTA pBucornatoria. 
Native of Central Mewico, 
Nat. Ord. Bignonracrka#.—Tribe BIGNONIEA. 
Genus Bienonta, Linn, ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 1033.) 
Bienonta buccinatoria; alte scandens, ramis teretibus v. subangulatis, foliis 
2-foliolatis, petiolo apice nudo vy. cirrhifero, foliolis petiolulatis ovato- 
oblongis ellipticisve obtusis v. cuspidatis basi cuneatis rotundatis 
cordatisve pellucido-punctatis glabris v. subtus secus nervos_pilosis, 
petiolulis 4-} poll. longis, racemis axillaribus terminalibusque 
rachi pedicellis crassis calyceque subfurfuraceo-tomentosis, floribus 
pendulis, calyce poculeforme ore truncato 5-dentato basi rotundato, 
coroll 4-pollicaris tomentellz tubo brevi flavido in faucem bucciniformem 
sanguineam lente curvam sensim attenuato, lobis 5 amplis rotundatis 
bifidis, filamentis glabris, antheris vix exsertis loculis e basi divaricatis 
linearibus incurvis, connectivo dorso mucronato, disco crasso, ovario 
pubescente. 
B. buccinatoria, Mairet, ex DC. Prodr. vol. ix. p. 195. Helms. Biol. Centr. 
Amer. Bot. vol. ii. p. 490. 
B. Cherere, Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 1801, excl. Syn. (non B. Kerere Aublet.) 
B. Kerere, Hort. 
Pithecoctenium buccinatorium, DC. l.c. D’Ancona, in Bull. Soc. Tose. Ort. 
vol. xiii. (1888) p. 272, t. xi. 
Pheedranthus buccinatorius, cinerascens, exsertus & Lindleyanus, Miers. in 
Proc. R. Hort. Soc, vol. iii. (1863) p. 182, 183. 
B. buecinatoria was introduced into the Gardens of Drop- 
more upwards of sixty years ago, by the Earl of Granville, 
by whom specimens were forwarded to Dr. Lindley, who 
figured it in the Botanical Register as B. Cherere, supposing 
it to be the B. Kerere, Aubl., of Surinam, a species with 
much smaller and yellow flowers. It is a native of 
- elevations of 6000-8000 ft. in Central Mexico, and must 
have been discovered in the last century, for there is a 
specimen from Payon in Bentham’s Herbarium now at 
Kew. In later years it has been collected by various 
botanists in the same country, and by one, Bilimek, at 
Puebla in South Mexico. 
There are several South American species of Begonia 
closely allied to B. buccinatoria, including the above 
Januaky Ist, 1897. 
