Poputar AND Geocrapuicat Notice. The species of this Genus, 
although few, are widely distributed. Some are natives of various 
parts of North and South America, and the West Indies; others of 
China and the Cape of Good Hope, whilst our present plant is a native 
of New South Wales. It should be remembered that the highly orna- 
mental Bignonia radicans of Linneus (which is figured under No, 123, 
of the Botanic Garden) is now considered as belonging to Tecoma. 
In the above description the nature of the fifth stamen is pointed, 
out, as being abortive, i.e. destitute of the anther, the most essential 
part, or that which prepares the pollen or fertilizing principle. In 
this state therefore it is useless, as far as any direct share which it 
could have in the function of reproduction, but it is far from. useless in. 
shewing us that in the works of/nature, there are no abrupt or sudden 
transitions; for as 5 is the normal number of the parts of the flower 
in many and perhaps all exogenous plants, so before we pass to such 
cases as Labiate plants, (of which the Gardoquia multiflora im the pre- 
sent number may be taken as an example) in which generally, four’ per- 
fect stamens only are found: we perceive in the Bignoniacex, and some 
Scrophulariacez,, this abortive stamen more perfectly, but yet insuffici- 
ently developed, by which the transition from 5 to 4 is rendered ‘more 
gradual. a. 
INTRODUCTION; WHERE GROWN; CutTure. This species was in- 
troduced from New South Wales, in 1792. The plant from which 
this representation was taken flowered in May, 1836, in the beautiful 
Conservatory of W. Leaf, Esq. of Park-Hill, Streatham Common. In 
habit it is a climbing shrub, producing numerous groups of very hand- 
some flowers. It thrives best in a light sandy soil, but will succeed 
inany. Young cuttings root readily, when taken off at a joint, and 
planted under a bell-glass, in a pot of sand, plunged in a gentle heat. 
Derivation or Tae Names.. 
he Mexican name of the genus Tecomaxochitl. Australis, 
from Auster, the South-wind; as it comes from the Southern hemisphere. 
SYNONYMEs, 
Bicnonta Panporana, Andrews’s Botanical Repository, 86. 
Bicnonta Panporea, Ventenat Plantes de Malmaison, 43. 
Bignonta Panpora, Botanical Magazine, 865. 
