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Original Articles. 
ON: A NEW CHINESE BIGNONIAD. 
By H. F. Hance, Pa.D., Etc. 
In the month of November, 1866, when j i 
; h of No ; , When journeying from the port o 
Hoi-hau to the city of Kieng-chau-fu, the capital of the island of Hai ii 
"d pendent woolly capsules. cursory inspection showed that these 
elonged to the Bignoniacee, but as the fruit was not ripe, and there were 
no flowers, I did not gather specimens. In a visit paid to the same island 
"e 
Swinhoe, and given to Mr. Sampson, who after some time threw some 
of the seeds into his garden, where, contrary to his expectation, they came 
i owere 
hisced spontaneously in April. [have thus had an opportunity of examin- 
us somewhat in detail the Hai-nan plant, of which I subjoin a descrip- 
ion, drawn up from living specimens. I may add that the fresh flowers 
. Swi 
Tribe A 
oppositis increscenti-impari-pinnatis summis sensim à 
formibus, petiolo supra canalieulato, foliolis 7-jugis ramulis plerumque 
essilibus membranaceis ob- 
is apice caudato-acuminatis integer- 
coc reteque prominulis novellis pubescentibus maturis#emnino 
glabris secus costam passim irregulariter glandulosis, racemis terminalibus 
is icari 
20-30-floris, floribus decussatim oppositis pe uneulo crasso 14-pollica 
i eis binis ovatis deciduis stipato 
herrea calyce bipollicari cum 
"iii ugineo-pann re clauso maturo unilabiato supra longi- 
udinaliter fisso obtuso i apice verrucis nigris notato, corolla 
Eu i: à : 
2 pollicari infundibulari glaberrima tubo superne a 
avide rubro apice glandulis circ. 12-16 verruciformibus obsito limbi sul- 
Th; Reprinted in the *Pharmaceutical Journal' of 31st December, 1870, p. 529. 
le e “Asclepiadeous tree of an unknown ies, with black pods ten inches 
Wed hanging downwards all over it," referred to in the same article, is Wrightia 
have ascertained from the examination of specimer 
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