Bignonia, DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA, 101 
tivated in the warmer parts of Asia, It is annual, and ina 
good soil grows generally to be about three or four feet high. 
I never found it in a wild state. 
My figure of this plant, called S. indicum by Linneeus, is 
the Krishna til of the Hindoos, I can at most make only a va- 
riety of this species; It is larger, more ramous, the stem and 
branches tinged with a rusty, reddish colour; the leaves a 
darker green ; but in situation and structure the same. The 
flowers are deeper tinged with red, and the seed darker co- 
Joured, Both are described by Rumphius, p. 204, Ke. of 
the 5th volume of his Herbarium Amboinense. Fig. 1. t. 76. 
of the same volume is a tolerable diminished figure of this va- 
riety. Their greatest difference, however, — ie seed, 
and harvest time. 
The former, S. orientale, is sown in Bengal in Pome 
and the crop got in three months afterwards, so that the dews, 
and the little remaining moisture of the earth, are the only 
sources of humidity by which it can benefit, as this is in gene- _ 
ral a period of drought. S. indicum is sown on high places, 
about the beginning of the i, eens and the ae cut _— 
in September. 
¥ 
BIGNONIA. Schreb. gen. N. pepe rs 
: Calyx various. Corol, with the throat campanulate, ead 
afive-cleft border; Germ superior, two-celled ; ced/s many-- 
seeded ; attachment interior. Silique bilocular (partition con- 
trary), containing many thin winged seeds. Embryo centri- 
petal, no perioperm J . 
1..B. undulata, R. 
Arboreous. Leaves opposite, simple, linear-lanceolate, 
much wayed. Ravemes lateral, Calyx campanulate, with 
the mouth cut into five, short emarginate segments. Silique 
linear, a little compressed, smooth, partition contrary. = 
_ A native of Hindoostan, from thence sent to the Bota 
x a x 
