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ARBORETUM AND FRUTICETUM. 



PART III. 



Spec. Char., c^-r. 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'x Mill., 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, Is. 6d. each ; seeds, 1*. Gd. per ounce: at Boll- 

 wyller, 50 cents, or 15 francs per hundred: and at New York, 50 cents. 



Variefi/. 



-t 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. 



1 2. T. grandiflo'ra SwL The great-flowered Tecoma. 



Identification. Sweet's Hort. Brit, p. U. ; Don's Mill., 4. p. 225. ; Lodii. Cat., ed. 1836. 



Synonymes. Bignoiiia grandifldra Thunb. Fl. Jap., 253., Blum. Bijdr., 778. ; B. chinensis Lam. 

 Did., 1. p. 424.; Rjotsjo KtEmpf. Amcen., p. 85fi., Banks Icon. Kismpf., t 21. ; IncarvUlefl grandi- 

 fldra Spreng. Syst.,i. p. 836.; 'rung-von-fa, Chinese. 



Engravings. Banks Icon. KcPmpf, 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, ^j 

 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. 

 {Doris Mill., iv. p. 225.) A climbing 

 shrub, a native of China and Japan. 

 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 Tecoma 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. 



