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capensis, one of the most drouth-resistant of all 

 vines or shrubs. The less water it has the more will 

 it bloom. There is also a white variety. 



Solandra guttata, the copa de oro, has the largest 

 flowers of any climbing shrub, but alas, it will grow 

 only in situations well protected from frosts. Its 

 giant cups of old-gold are several inches across the 

 mouth and strikingly handsome, while their great 

 size attracts the attention of every beholder. 



In the solanums we have several species bearing 

 white or blue flowers and ranging in size from those 

 of the small S. jasminoides (potato vine) up to the 

 azure-blue giants of Solanum Wendlandi. 



Sollya heterophylla, the Australian blue bell, is 

 as much of a shrub as a climber, but it has the 

 bluest of flowers and though they are small they 

 never fail to attract attention. 



A lovely, somewhat tender plant is Stigmaphyllon 

 ciliatum, the orchid vine, with golden yellow flowers 

 in pendulous bunches or corymbs, each flower an 

 inch across and delicately fringed. 



The tacsonias are closely allied to the passion 

 vines but differ most distinctly in the color of the 

 flowers, those of passion vines being white, blue, 

 or purple, while the tacsonias bear pink, scarlet, or 

 red blossoms. 



In the trumpet flowers, so-called, which comprise 

 the bignonias and tecomas, we have many colors, 

 and some of the tecomas are deciduous. The flowers 

 are pink, orange-red, and red. See also bignonias 

 and list of deciduous vines for there is much confu- 

 sion of names. 



There is a vine that by reason of its provocatively 

 long name should be ruled out of popular lists except 

 that it is a beautiful climbing plant belonging to the 



