Poputar anp Ggocrapuican Notice. This species, like most 
of those which we at present know of the genus Thunbergia, is a native 
of the East Indies, adorning uncultivated places of the province of 
Bengal, even in the immediate neighbourhood of Calcutta. It flowers 
there during the rainy season. The species which are found in Africa, 
or the islands adjacent, only serve to confirm the accuracy of Robert 
Brown’s observation, that there isa greater analogy between the plants 
of equinoctial Africa and equinoctial India, than between those of 
India and equinoctial America, and this holds good, both as a gene- 
ral remark, and also of the members of the tribe of Acanthacee in 
particular. See Brown’s Appendix to Tuckey’s Voyage to the Congo, 
p- 450 and 478, also Royle’s Flora of the Himalaya, p. 159-61. Many 
of the members of this tribe are possessed of an odour, which is some- 
times agreeable, but occasionally very unpleasant; of the former set 
are the Thunbergia fragrans, Justicia odora, &c. while the latter com- 
prise Ruellia feetida, R. viscosa, &c. 
INTRODUCTION; WHERE GROWN; CuLTuRE. It was first seen in 
Britain, in 1820; and to the politeness of Mrs. Lawrence, of Drayton 
Green, we owe the opportunity of figuring this ornamental plant. 
It is one amongst those climbers which require considerable heat 
fully to develope their showy character. It should be planted in a 
large box, or hed. of earth, in the pit of the stove, and if its branches 
be not allowed t Pketome tio crowded it will flower freely and show 
itself to great advantage, through the whole of the summer. It may 
be increased by cuttings, at all seasons of the year. These should be 
struck in a sandy compost; and when rooted, potted singly into a 
mixture of peat and loam. 
Derivation oF THE Nam 
In compliment to Ch. P. Thunberg, one of the most S ees of the pupils 
of Linneus, and afterwards his successor as Professor of Botany at Upsal. 
>acparma a compound of grandis and flos, to intimate the large siz 
the flow 
size of 
SyNonyMEs. 
THUNBERGIA GRANDIFLORA. Roseburgh: Flora Indica. Botanical Register, 
folio 495. Botanical Magazi . 
