BIGNO'’NIA VENUSTA. 
~ LOVELY BIGNONIA. 
EXOGENE. DICOTYLEDONER. 
Natural division 
to which 
this Plant belongs. 
NATURAL ORDER, BIGNONIACES, 
a ae ¢ rr divisions 
to wh ich 
hinetacutialiaiins we Plant belongs. 
No. 113. 
DIDYNAMIA, 
ANGIOSPERMIA, 
OF LINNEUS- 
1 3 + 
GENUS. ea LInnzvs. 
rarius integerrimus. . Corotza tubo brevi, fauce ecco me limbo quingue- 
lobo bilabiato. eis quatuor, didynama, cum rudimento quinti.. Stigma 
tum. Capsvra siliqueformis, bilocularis, kine: valvis pa- 
rallelo. Sema biseriata, imbricata, membranaceo-alata,transversa. ARBORES 
aut frutices szepissime scandentes et cirrhosi. Fortra opposita, simplicia aut 
composita. Frores axillares aut terminales, sepius paniculati 
SPECIES. Brienonta venusta. Ker. Scandens, ek S amis stri: atis, 
foliis inferioribus ternatis beaks superioribus conjugatis cirrhosis, foliolis 
ovatis papi an acuminatis, petiolis minute puberulis, corymbis terminalibus 
densis, calyce brevi campanulato truncato minute quinquedentato, corollis 
elongatis incurvis apice minute puberulis 
CHARACTER OF THE GeNus, Bignonta. Catyx bell-shaped, five- 
toothed, or rarely entire. CoroLxa with a short tube, the throat bell- 
shaped, the limb five-lobed, two lipped. StTAmMENs four, didynamous, 
with the rudiment of a fifth. Stiema bilamellate. Capsuxe siliqua- 
shaped, two-celled, the dissepiment parallel to the valves. SEEDs in 
two rows, imbricate, winged. 
DESCRIPTION OF THE SPECIES, BIGNONIA VENUSTA, STEM clini. 
ing, tall, perfectly smooth, as well as every other part of the plant, 
excepting the slight down on the corolla. BrancHEs marked with six, 
or more usually eight strie. Leaves opposite, petiolate, compound, 
the lower ones bearing three leaflets, the upper ones two leaflets and a 
long tendril, either simple or two or three branched. LeaFLets borne 
on a partial footstalk, ovate or somewhat oblong, terminating in a 
blunt point, often slightly heart-shaped at the base, from two to four 
inches long, shining on the upper surface, and marked with a few 
scattered incurved glandular dots. FLoweErs at the end of the 
branches, or sometimes by the shortness of the branches apparently 
axillary, in thick bunches formed of a number of short, opposite, five 
to ee dichotomous cymes. — — stor =i loose, 
