TECOMA TERNSTRCEMIA 583 



of the current season's growth in August and later. Corolla deep orange and 

 red, widely trumpet-mouthed, narrowing to a funnel-shaped tube; 2 to 3 ins. 

 long and wide, with five broad, rounded lobes. Calyx i| ins. long, bell-shaped, 

 with five slender lance-shaped lobes ^ in. long. 



Native of China and Japan; introduced in 1800. Even more gorgeous 

 than T. radicans, it is, unfortunately, not so hardy. It must have a sheltered 

 sunny wall, and even there does not with us produce so wonderful a display as 

 it does on the Continent. It is easily distinguished from the better known 

 radicans by the panicled inflorescence, the broader mouth of the corolla, 

 smooth leaves, and the much more deeply lobed calyx. 



Var. AURANTIA. Flowers orange-yellow. There is down on the veins of 

 the leaflets beneath, which seems to show the influence of T. radicans, as do 

 also the shorter calyx-lobes ; perhaps a hybrid. 



Var. THUNBERGII has the tube of the corolla shorter, and the lobes more 

 reflexed ; probably more hardy. 



T. RADICANS, Jussieu. TRUMPET FLOWER. 



(Bignonia radicans, Linnceus, Bot. Mag., t. 485.) 



A deciduous climber of vigorous habit forming a stout main stem, and 

 growing at least 30 to 40 ft. high; it climbs by means of aerial roots like an 

 ivy; young stems smooth. Leaves pinnate, 6 to 15 ins. long, composed of 

 seven to eleven leaflets, which are ovate, f to 4 ins. long, \ to 2 ins. wide; 

 coarsely and angularly toothed, with a long, often tail-like point; smooth and 

 dark green above, downy beneath, especially along the midrib and veins. 

 Flowers produced in August and September, each on a short stout stalk, in a 

 cluster at the end of the current season's growth, four to twelve flowers 

 together. Corolla rich scarlet and orange, trumpet-shaped, 2^ to 3 ins. long, 

 i^ ins. wide at the mouth, where are five broad, short, rounded lobes. Calyx 

 bell-shaped, f in. long, with 'triangular teeth. Pod spindle-shaped, stout, 

 5 ins. long, f in. wide in the middle. 



Native of the south-eastern United States. The gorgeous beauty of this 

 climber must early have attracted the notice of the first settlers, for it was 

 cultivated in England in 1640. It can be planted against buildings, to which 

 it will attach itself by aerial roots from the stems, but usually needs support 

 from nails as well. Flowering as it does in late summer on the growths of 

 the year, it should be pruned back every spring. It is hardy enough to be 

 grown in the open ground at Kew, but the growths are so long that even 

 pruned back annually it is of ungainly habit and unsuited for the open 

 border. Very rarely, but sometimes after unusually hot summers, it develops 

 its conspicuous brown pods, full of flattened seeds with silvery transparent 

 wings. 



TERNSTRCEMIA JAPONICA, Thunberg. TERNSTRCEMIACE^:. . 



An evergreen shrub or small tree with a much-branched head, and 

 warted, not downy branchlets. Leaves alternate, crowded at the apex 

 of the shoot, obovate or oblanceolate ; i| to 3 ins. long, \ to ij ins. 

 wide ; tapered gradually at the base to a short, stout, purplish stalk ; 

 more abruptly tapered to a rounded or bluntish apex; they are dark 

 varnished green, thick and leathery, and quite smooth. Flowers fragrant, 

 solitary on stalks about J in. long, nodding, of short duration, produced 

 in July and August from the leaf-axils, and from the axils of fallen 



