1260 ARBORETUM AND FRUTICETUM. PART III. 
Spec. Char., §c. Climbing, glabrous. Branches rough, rooting. Leaflets 9, 
ovate, acuminated, coarsely serrated. Racemes terminal, corymbose, on 
long peduncles. Tube of corolla 5 times longer 
than the calyx. (Don’s Miil., iv. p. 225.) A 
beautiful hardy climber, which fixes itself to trees 
or walls by its roots, like ivy. The flowers are 
produced at the ends of the shoots, in large 
bunches; and have long swelling tubes, shaped 
somewhat like a trumpet. The corolla is large, 
scarlet, and orange-coloured. It is a native of 
Carolina, Florida, and Virginia, and flowers in 
August and September. It was introduced in 
1640, and is frequent in British gardens, where it 
grows vigorously, producing tufts of leaves and 
fine flowers, abundantly at the extremity of the 
branches, but being rather apt to become naked 
below. One of the finest specimens of this plant 
in Europe is that trained against the Palace Pitti 
at Florence, which, when we saw it in 1819, was, 
if our recollection does not deceive us, upwards of 60 ft. high, and extending 
proportionably in width. It is quite hardy in England; but in the north 
of France they cover the trunk with straw during winter, for a few years, 
till it has become perfectly ligneous. Price of plants, in the London nurse- 
ries, 50s. per hundred; in pots, 1s. 6d. each; seeds, ls. 6d. per ounce? at Boll- 
wyller, 50 cents, or 15 francs per hundred: and at New York, 50 cents. 
Variety. ‘ 
4 T.r. 2 major Hort. has the flowers larger and of a paler scarlet; the 
leaves, also, differ considerably, both in size and shape. It is a 
climbing shrub, a native of Carolina, which flowers in August, and 
was introduced in 1724. 
4 2. JT. GRANDIFLO'RA Swt. The great-flowered Tecoma. 
Identification. Sweet’s Hort. Brit., p. 14.; Don’s Mill., 4. p. 225. ; Lodd. Cat., ed. 1836. 
Synonymes. Bigndnia grandifldra Thunb. Fl. Jap., 253., Blum. Bijdr., 778.; B. chinénsis Lam. 
Dict., 1. p. 424.; Rjotsjo Kempf. Ameen., p. 856., Banks Icon. Kempf., t. 21. ; Incarvillea grandi- 
fldra Spreng. Syst., 2. p. 836.; Tung-von-fa, Chinese. 
Engravings. Banks Icon. Kempf., t. 21.; and our jig. 1092. 
Spec. Char., §c. Slightly scandent, glabrous. Leaflets 7—9, ovate, acumi- 
nated, coarsely serrated, attenuated at the base. Panicles terminal, 
pendulous. Calycine segments lanceo- ‘ 
late, length of the tube of the corolla. 
Branches rooting. Young shoots spotted 
with dark purple. Leaves 6—10 in. long, 
Petioles marginate. Flowers pendulous, 
forming terminal cross-armed panicles, 
large, of a tawny orange colour on the 
outside, and of a tolerably bright red- 
dish orange colour inside, with brighter 
streaks. Nectary a glandular crenated 
ring. Anterior lobe of stigma recurved. 
(Don’s Mill., iv. p. 225) A climbing A 
shrub, a native of China and Japan. iiaslabel car. 
Introduced in 1800, and flowering in July and August. This species, 
when first introduced, was thought to be rather tender; but it is now 
found to be almost as hardy as Técoma radicans, which it greatly re- 
sembles, but is of a slighter habit, though it has much larger flowers, and 
is altogether a very splendid plant. There is a fine specimen at Kew, in 
front of one of the stoves; a large one in the Horticultural Society’s Garden, 
which has stood against the conservative wall there since 1825; and one 
against the wall in the Hackney arboretum. Price of plants, in the London 
nurseries, 2s. 6d. each. 
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