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DICTIONARY OF GARDENING, 
Hn Encyclopædia of thorticulture. 
The following are the Abbreviations used :—/. flowers; fr. fruit; L leaves; h. height; deg. degrees; 
rhiz. rhizomes; cau. caudex; sti. stipes. i A ei ten ; 
The Asterisks (*) indicate plants that are especially good or distinct. 
TABEBUIA (said to be the native name in Brazil). 
Orn. Bignoniacee. A genus embracing nearly sixty 
species of stove, glabrous, pubescent, or villous, erect 
trees or shrubs, natives of tropical America. Flowers 
often ample, racemose or cymose; calyx tubular, at first 
closed, afterwards variously cut at apex; corolla tube 
elongated, straight or scarcely incurved ; limb spreading, 
a alate, of five rounded, nearly equal lobes; stamens 
ant didynamous. Capsules oblong or elongated, sub- 
bs toe Leaves opposite or slightly scattered, simple (one- 
Oliolate °), trifoliolate, or often digitately five to seven- 
foliolate ; leaflets petiolulate, entire or toothed. Few of 
the species are in cultivation. They require precisely 
similar treatment to that recommended for Tecoma 
(ander which these plants are sometimes included). 
T. æsculifolia (Horse Chestnut- a 
sotoured, sub-campanulate, the Shona cc kee masked one 
yellow spots ; panicle terminal, sub-corymbose. June. l. digi- 
te; leaflets seven, obovate-oblong, shortly acuminate, narrowed 
» membranous, pubescent above, canescent-tomentose 
beneath. Branchlets pubescent i 
Doaa PISEK p cent. h. 20ft. Mexico. Tree. SYN. 
T 
y chrysantha lden-flowered). This is the correct name of 
the plant Erernt ar i i i pag Be . 
rene p Ensi in this work as Bignonia chrysantha. SYN. 
: la (white-wooded). This is th t na fth 
oloacpxyla Ate thie eee s is the correc ame o 1e 
leucozyla (of Velloooy rk as Bignonia pallida. SYN. Bignonia 
T. serratifolia ( 
: I serrate-leaved). , corolla yellow, brous, 
"m to 2}in. long, narrowly infundibular ; corymbs eee 
Pens med devoid of scales; leaflets five, din. to bin. long, 
Indi AT tei shortly acuminate, sub-entire. A. 20ft. West 
, Tree. SYN. Tecoma serratifolia. 
T. specta is i 
-ow prear (showy).* This is the correct name of the plant 
spectabilis (h. Teu as Bignonia spectabilis. SYN. Tecoma 
71 ABERNÆMONTANA (named in honour of James 
ilyas ore Tabernæmontanus, of Heidelberg, a celebrated 
Aata mieya botanist, who died in 1590). Syns. Pan- 
oes > Reichardia (of Dennstaedt). Ineluding Cono- 
ryngia. ORD. Apocynacee. A genus comprising about 
Species of stove, evergreen, often glabrous trees or 
y dispersed over tropical regions. Flowers 
Vol. IV. 
. scarcely branched. 
Tabernemontana—continued. 
white or yellowish; calyx usually small, five-lobed or five- 
alver-shaped, the throat not scaly, the 
parted; corolla 
lobes contorted; anthers sagittate, very acute; cymes 
Berries or follicles two, globose, 
por: ovoid, or recurved-reniform, smooth or three- 
Til ; 
veined. The species, a select few of which are 
Leav:s opposite, slender or coriaceous, penni- te 
described, are interesting plants. T. utilis (a species ; 
probably not in cultivation), when tapped, yields a copious 
supply of thick, sweet milk, resembling that of the cow 
in appearance, but in substance rather sticky, owing to 
the presence of caoutchouc. A mixture of loam, sand, 
and peat, is the most suitable soil for Tabernemontanas. 
Young plants are obtainable by means of cuttings, in- 
serted in sand, under a glass, in moist heat. Except 
where otherwise indicated, all the under-mentioned species 
are shrubs, having white flowers. 
T, Amsonia (Amsonia) A synonym of Amsonia Taber- 
neemontana, yoy 
T, amygdalifolia (Almond-leaved). fi. highly, odorous ; corolla 
segments obovate, undulated, nearly equal to the tube; cymes 
dichotomous, one-third to half the length of the leaves. July. 
l. oval-lanceolate or obovate-oblong, acute at both ends, 2in. to 
5in. long, piina; petioles jin. to jin. long. A, 6ft. South 
America, 1780. (B. R. 338.) : r ; 
T, Barteri (Barter’s).* fi. lin. long; corolla tube slightly ilated 
at base and a the segments blong-ob te, obtuse, rather 
shorter than tube ; peduncles dichotomously branched, few- 
flowered, shorter than the leaves. Summer. l. oblong, attenu- 
ated at both ends, the upper ones 2in, to 3in. long, in un ual 
whorls ; petioles dilated and slightly connate at base. Branches 
pale. A. 6ft. Western tropical Africa, 1870. (B. M. 5859.) 
coronaria (crowned).* Adam’s Apple; East Indian Rose Bay. 
odorous at night ; corolla tube p ing RA the segments oblong, 
obtuse, rather longer than the tube ; peduncles in from the 
forks of the branches, erect, dichotomous, four to s 
July. l. opposite, unequal, elliptic - oblong, acute 
obtuse and acuminate at in. to 4in, long, mem 
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apex 
Branches dichotomous. h. TN Native country unknown ; cul- — 
tivated throughout India. 1770. (B. R. 1064; L. B. C. 406.) 
There is a dabie towered form, flore-pleno. (B. M. 1865, under 
name of Nerium coronarium.) 
T. densiflora (dense-flowered). A synonym of Rauwolfia densi- E 
fora. 
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