PLATE X. 



1. BIGNONIA RADICANS. 



ASH-LEAVED TRUMPET FLOWER. 



THIS genus comprehends several plants of the shrubby and tree 

 exotic kinds. The Trumpet Flower, or Scarlet Jasmine. 



It belongs to the class and order Didynamia Angiospermia, and 

 ranks in the natural order of Personate. 



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-cam panulate: border five-parted, 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 pistil- 

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

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

 two-celled, two-valved silique: partition membranaceous, parallel 

 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, Catalpa and Tree Bignonia. 2. B. sempervirens, Evergreen 

 Carolina Eignonia, or Yellow Jasmine. 3. B. unguis, 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 il s 

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

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



