538 GARDEN PLANTS. TARTU. 



Kigelia. 



K. pinnata. A large, coarse-looking tree, unfit for the garden, 

 remarkable for the curious way in which the bunches of dull 

 liver-coloured flowers dangle from different parts of it at the end 

 of their rope-like flowering stems, six feet in length. These 

 are succeeded by enormous cucumber-like pods, sometimes in 

 bunches of two or three together. 



BTGNONIACE^E. 



Bignonia. 



The species of Bignonia, natives of this country, are nearly 

 all trees of large size, producing great dull red and yellow, 

 unpleasantly-smelling flowers. Those most deserving a place 

 in the garden have been introduced into India, and are plants 

 of scandent habit ; these, when in full bloom, are truly charming 

 objects. They a,re benefited by being well pruned in after they 

 have done flowering. All are exceedingly easy of propagation. 

 Cuttings strike freely. 



1. B. Chamberlaynei ; syn. equinoctialis. A most extensively- 

 spreading shrub : covers a large space of trellis or wall in a 

 very short time, and requires to be often pruned in to keep it 

 within bounds ; throws out slender green stems to a great 

 length, along which it bears pairs of pinnate leaves. Each 

 leaf consists of two oval, pointed, wavy, smooth, shining leaflets, 

 two inches long. From the axils of the leaves are borne 

 primrose-coloured thimbled-formed flowers, with the tube two 

 inches long, produced in great profusion nearly at all times, 

 contrasting beautifully with the richly verdant and graceful 

 foliage. 



2. B. crucigeria. A climbling shrub of the habit of the pre- 

 ceding, and bearing in the Hot season flowers similar in form 

 and size, of a dull tawny-yellow colour ; not a common plant, 

 nor a very attractive one. 



3. B. gracilis. An extensively-climbing shrub, with rich, 

 varnished-green, pinnate leaves, of two leaflets, broadly oval, 

 pointed, two inches long ; bears, during the Hot months, a vast 

 profusion of flowers, in form and colour similar to those of an 



