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BignoniA TecFaint&. Mrs. TEevrair’s 
BIGNONIA. 
Class and Order. 
DipynaMIA ANGIOSPERMIA. 
( Nat. Ord.—Bienontace2. ) 
Generic Character. 
Cal. campanulatus, integerrimus, repandus vel subdenta- 
tus. Cor. campanulata, limbo bilabiato, 5-lobo. Filamen- 
tum 5 sterile. Stigma bilamellatum. Capsula silique- 
formis, bilocularis, dissepimento valvis parallelo. Semina 
transversa, biseriata, membranaceo-alata, Spr. 
Specific Character and Synonym. 
Bignonra * Telfairie ; arborea, foliis oppositis pinnatis 6—9 
- jugis cum impari, foliolis ovato-oblongis acuminatis 
lucidis, panicula terminali laxa, siliquis teretibus acu- 
minatis carnosis, seminibus lato-alatis. Bojer MSS, 
Bienonia Telfairia. Bojer MSS. 
 Descr. A densely leafy tree, having an_ erect trunk, 
from fifteen to twenty feet high, clothed with a smooth 
greyish bark. Branches below alternate, horizontal, round- 
» whitish ; upper ones patent, subcompressed, mostly 
opposite, thickened at the joints, green, glabrous, spotted 
with white. Leaves opposite, pinuated, of from six to nine 
pairs of pinne, with a terminal, odd leaflet; the lower ones 
pe patent, even recurved ; upper ones nearly erect: Pinne 
or leaflets, opposite, ovato-oblong, acuminate, entire, on 
Yery short petioles, patent, coriaceous, dark green, shin- 
ing above and somewhat viscid, paler beneath, the nerves 
Prominent on both sides. Rachis or main-stalk grooved 
above, remarkably swollen at the base, where it is dis- 
tinctly 
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* In honor of the Abbé Joun Pavt Bienoy, a friend of TouRNEFORT, 
who dedicated it to him, 
