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blgnonia uncata. hooked-tendrilled 



Trumpet-flower. 



Clafs and Order. 



DlDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA. 



Generic Character. — Vide N m - 1398. 



Specific CharacJer and Synonyms. 



BlGNONIA uncata ; foliis conjugatis glaberrimis, cirrhis pe- 

 tiolo longioribus apice trifidis aduncis, calycibus fpathacei$ 

 fubbilabiatis aggregates. 



BlGNONIA uncata. Bot. Repof. 



CLEMATIS myrfmites, amplioribus foliis, americana tetra- 

 phyllos. Pluk. Aim. 109. /. 163. /. 2. ? 



This is an evergreen hot-houfe fhrub ; the leaves vary much 

 upon the fame plant, fome being ovate-acuminate, others lan- 

 ceolate, fmooth on both fides, margin fomewhat undulated and 

 recurved, oppofite, conjugate with a tendril between them, 

 which, before it divides into three hooked claws, is longer than 

 the footftalk of the leaflet. The large flowers are yellow 

 when firft expanded, but when they begin to fade turn to a 

 reddifh colour. Calyx fpathe-like, fplitting on one fide and 

 fometimes becoming fomewhat bilabiate ; and therefore pro- 

 bably belonging to the genus spathodea of Beauvois, but 

 not having feen the fruit, from which only thefe plants can be 

 naturally claffed, we rather leave it under Bignonia. 



Pluknet's figure without flowers probably belongs to this, 

 as we judge from the length of the tendrils, which in Bignonia 

 Unguis are much fhorter, and divided into three claws to the 

 bale. 



Native of the Weft-Indies, from whence it was introduced 

 by Lord Seaforth. Our drawing was taken from a fine 

 plant that flowered in the ftove of the Comteffe De Vanjdes, 

 at Bayes-Water, in June laft. 



