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Bignonia Pandora. Norfolk-Island 



Trumpet-Flower. 



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C/^/jt and Order. 



DlDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA. 



Generic Charatler. — Fid. N um - 864. 



Specific Charatler and Synonyms. 



BIGNONIA Pandora ; caule fruticofo, ramis volubilibus 

 nodofis, foliisimpari-pinnatis 2 — 4-jugis: foliolis 

 oblongo-ovalibus fubintegerrimis, racemis axil- 

 laribus. 



BIGNONIA Pandora. Gawler in Recenf. Repof. Bot. 97. 



BIGNONIA pandorana. Bot. Repof. 86. 



BIGNONIA pandorea. Hort. MalmaiJon y 43. 



Desc. Stem fhrubby : Branches twining, knotty. Leaves 

 oppofite odd pinnate : leaflets oblong-ovate, rather acuminate 

 fmooth, fhining and for the mod part perfectly entire, now 

 and then obfoletely toothed; odd one largelt ; footftalk chan- 

 nelled above, jointed near its infertion. Racemes axillary to 

 the leaves even when terminal, branched : flowers nodding, 

 four to eight. Calyx many times (hotter than tube of corolla, ob- 

 foletely five-toothed, fmooth, inferior. Corolla tubular ; tube 

 very gradually widening upwards : faux hairy within on the 

 under fide : limb five-cleft, fegments nearly equal, fub- 

 bilabiately arranged, obtufe and undulate. Stamens four, didyna- 

 nious: filaments inlerted into the tube, curved: anthers of two 

 divaricate lobes with a dark purple cartilaginous margin : pollen 

 white. Ovary egg fhaped : ftyle erecl, longer than ftamens, 

 but (horter than corolla : ftigma fpathula-fhaped, fringed. The 

 rudiments of a fifth filament are feen in the middle of the tube 

 as in moft of the fpecies of Bignonia. 



Although naturally climbing, by the twifting of its flalks 

 round whatever fupport comes in its way, is capable like the 



Honeyfucklc 



