margin. Stamens four, didynamous, inserted into the tube : 

 the longer filaments nearly reach to the point of the lacinias 

 of the upper lip, the shorter ones to their base only. Anthers 

 versatile; pendulous, being- inserted into the filament near to 

 one end : lobes distinct and finally diverging, bursting late- 

 rally the whole length. Germen linear, inserted into a fleshy 

 cylindrical receptacle. Style nearly equal to the stamens : 

 stigma lozenge-shaped, consisting of two plates, which before 

 efflorescence diverge at the point, but are afterwards closely 

 applied together. 



We do not know that this very ornamental species of Big- 

 nonia has been any where described, except in the Botanical 

 Register above quoted ; but we are not without some suspi- 

 cion that it may be the same, as the Bignonia spcctabilis 

 of Vahl, a native of the island of St. Croix in the West- 

 Indies ; for as that botanist had only dried specimens to de- 

 scribe from, he might easily be deceived in the colour of the 

 flower, and the minute teeth of the calyx might escape notice : 

 in other respects his description, as far as it goes, corresponds 

 very well with our plant. 



Native of the Brazils. Communicated by Mr. William 

 Smith, who has the care of Lord Liverpool's garden at 

 Combe-Wood ; he at the same time informed us, that the 

 plant was sent from the Brazils to his Lordship by Sir Johx 

 Beresford in 1815 : and that it flowered for the first time hj 

 1817. He recommends it to be kept in the dry stove. 



