PLATE X. ■ 



1. BIGNONIA RADICANS. 



ASH-LEAVED TRUMPET FLOWER. 



Tins genus comprehends several plants of Uie shrubby and tree 

 exotic kinds. The Trumpet Flower, or Scarlet Jasmine. 



It belon(TS to the class and order Didynamia Angiospermia, and 

 ranks in the natural order of Persoimta. 



The characters are: that the calyx is a one-leafed, erect, cup- 

 form, five cleft perianthium: the corolla monopetalous, campanu- 

 late; tube very small, the length of the calyx: throat very long, ven- 

 tricose beneath, oblong-campanulate: border five-parled, the two 

 upper divisions reflex, lower patulous: the stamina consist of four 

 subulate filaments, shorter than the corolla; two longer than the 

 other two: the anthers reflex, oblong, as it were double: the pislil- 

 lum is an oblong germ, the style filiform, having the situation and 

 form of the stamens: the stigma is capitate: the pcricarpium is a 

 two-celled, two-valved siiicjue: partition membranaceous, j)arallel 

 and thickened at the sutures: the seeds are very many, imbricate, 

 compressed, and membrane-winged on both sides. 



The species chiefly cultivated for ornamental purposes are: 1. B. 

 catalpa, Calalpa and Tree l^ignonia. 2. B. sempervircns. Evergreen 

 Carolina Bignonia, or Yellow Jasmine. 3. B. uil^ids, Cut-claw Big- 

 nonia. 4. B. radicans. Rooting Ash-leaved Scarlet Bignonia. 



The first is a deciduous tree, rising with an upright stem, covered 

 with a smooth brown bark, to the height of thirty or forty feet in ilg 

 native situation, but not nearly so high in this climate: it sends out 

 many strong lateral branches, having very large, heart-shaped, or 



