102 DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMTA, Bignonia. 
garden by Colonel Hardwicke, where it flowers in March, 
and ripens its seed in May. When in full flower it is one of 
the most beautiful small trees 1 have seen. 
. Trunk erect, in trees eight years old, as thick as a man’s 
thigh, and the whole tree about twenty-five feet high. Bark 
scabrous, of a brownish ash-colour. Branchlets drooping, 
like the weeping willows, Leaves simple, opposite, petioled, 
drooping, linear-lanceolate, apex scarcely pointed, entire, 
much waved, clothed with minute micaceous seales.  Peti- 
_oles slender, channelled. Stipules none. Racemes lateral, 
from branchlets of one or two years growth, two or three 
inches long, five or six-flowered. Bractes, one at the base - 
of each pedicel, and an opposite pair a little further up, ca- 
ducous, Flowers very large, erect, orange-coloured, ino- 
dorous. Calyx campanulate, five-toothed ; - segments short, 
rounded, often emarginate. Corol ; tube Sisliguisly campa- 
nulate. Border four-parted ; the upper division larger, and 
divided mto two rounded lobes ; the under three, equal, and 
nearly round, with the So aN slightly waved. Filaments 
five, the single one small, and abortive. Anthers double. 
Germ linear, two-celled, with numerous ovula in each, at- 
tached to two longitudinal swellings on each side of the par- 
tition. Style the length of the stamina. Stigma of two thin, 
oval, acute lobes. Silique linear, curved, considerably flat- 
tened, so as to bring the sutures into the middle of the sides ; 
‘about six or eight inches long by one in circumference, two- 
celled, two-valved ; ; valves smooth, thin, and of a light brown — 
colour, Partition thin, of a dark brownish black, contrary, 
that is, crossing the sutures, and attached to the middle of the 
valves. Seeds many, imbricate, thin, with a very thin white — 
membranaceous wing all round; attached to the partition 
about half way between its middle and the margins. Pe- 
risperm none. E'mbryo with two-lobed cotyledons, and the 
point of the radicle ee ee — the umbilicus, ” = 
