CHAP. LXXIX. BIGNONIA\CEZ. TE'COMA. 1259 
having the dissepiment parallel with the valves. Seeds disposed in 
2 rows, imbricate, transverse, with membranous wings. (Don’s Mill., iv. 
p. 216.) — Usually climbing shrubs, furnished with tendrils, rarely erect 
trees or shrubs. Leaves opposite, simple, conjugate, trifoliolate, digitate, 
or pinnate. Flowers axillary and terminal, usually panicled. Corollas 
trumpet-shaped, white, yellow, orange-coloured, purple, violaceous, or rose- 
coloured. The only hardy species is a subevergreen climber, a native of 
North America; and, like all the plants of this order, easily propagated by 
cuttings of the roots, or shoots. 
44 1.B.capreota‘ta L. The tendriled Bignonia, or Trumpet Flower. 
Identification, Lin, Sp., 870. ; Hort. Cliff, 317. 3 Don's Mill., 4 p. 217. 
MOLE IPE SL. Zane Hist., 74 £.2. ed. 2 49, 35. and our ig. 1090; 
Spec. Char., &c. Climbing. Leaves conjugate; leaflets cordate-oblong; lower 
ones simple. Tendrils small, trifid ; the lobes bifurcate. Peduncles axillary, 
1-flowered, crowded. Calyx entire. Corollas red- ; 
dish yellow. Follicles flattened, 1 ft. long. (Don's 
Mill., iv. p. 217.) A climbing shrub, a native of 
North America, in the more southern parts; flower- 
ing in June and July. The follicles are said, as 
above, to be a foot long; but, on an open wall, in 
the Horticultural Society's Garden, they do not 
exceed 6in.or8in. It was introduced in 1710, and 
forms a very ornamental wall climber in British 
gardens. This is an excellent plant for covering 
dead walls, from its great capability of extension, its 
being subevergreen, and the singular shape of its 
large and handsome leaflets. It requires a sheltered 
situation, and favourable exposure, in order to \ 
flower freely. The plant of this species in the Horticultural Society’s 
Garden ripens seeds. Price of plants, in the London nurseries, 2s. each ; 
at Bollwyller, where it is a green-house plant, 4 francs; and at New York, 
50 cents. 
+1. p. 104. t. 40.; Boce. Sic., 
Genus II. 
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TE’COMA Juss. Tue Tecoma. Lin. Syst. Didynamia Angiospérmia. 
Identification. Juss. Gen., p. 139.; R. Br. Prod., 471.; H. B. et Kunth Nov. Gen. Amer., 5."p. 142. ; 
Lindl. Nat. Syst, Bot., 2d edit., p. 289. 3; Don’s Mill, 4. p. 223. 
Synonyme, Bigndnia sp. of Lin. and others. 
erivation. From Tecomazxochitl, the Mexican name of one of the species. 
Gen. Char., §c. Calyx campanulate, 5-toothed. Corolla with a short tube, 
and a campanulate throat; limb 5-lobed, bilabiate. Stamens 4, didynamous; 
that is, 2 long and 2 short; with the rudiment of a fifth sterile filament. 
Stigma bilamellate. Capsule silique-formed, 2-celled, having the dissepi- 
ment contrary to the valves. Seeds disposed in 2 rows, imbricate, winged, 
transverse. (Don’s Mill., iv. p. 223.)—The only hardy species yet intro- 
duced is a deciduous climbing shrub. 
Se . 6 
Mill. Icon., t. 65., Du Ham. Arb., 1. p. 103. t. 1., Sab. Hort., 2. t. 84., Du Roi Harbk., 1. p. 116., 
Derivation. Wurzeln is, imply, rooting ; and henblidige, ash-leaved. 
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