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BIGNONIA aE UCOXYLON, 
: Oleander: flowered Trumpet Flower. 
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SCEASS AIV:. ORDER It, z & 
DYN {M14 ANGIOSPE RMIA. Two Chives longer. Seeds covered. 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
YA a ee monophyllum, erectum, EMPALEMENT. Cup one leaf, aptight cup- 
cyathi-forme, quinquefidum fhaped, and cut into five divifions. 
ROLLA monopetala, ‘cocbaisllata:; tubus mi- Bossom of one bell-fhaped petal; tube {mall, 
longitudine calycis; faux longiffima, the length of the cup; mouth very | 
ubtus ventricofa; limbus quinque partitus; {welled at the bottom; border of five die ; 
— duabus a reflexis; inferi- fions; the two upper fegments reflexed, the 
bus patulis. lower ones fpreading. 
r . Filamenta -quatuor, fubulata, corolla Cuives. Threads four, aw!-fhaped, fhorter than 
0 » quorum duo reliquis longiora. the bloffom, two of which are longer than 
e a stan seiot dupli. the others. Tips bent back, oblong, and 
appear doubled. 
F ces: Stylus fili- PoinTAL. Seed-bud oblong. Shaft thread- 
et figura fiaminum. Stigma fhaped, of the fame fituation and fhape as 
the chives. Summit headed. 
ER ARPT a -Siliqua bilocularis, bivalvis. || Srep-vessex. Pod of two cells, and two valves, 
EMI wicata, compreffa, utrinque SzEps many, laying one over the other, flat, and 
ta. winged at each fide. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
falis digitatis; foliolis integerrimis, Trumpet Flower with fingered leaves; the fmall _ 
-acuminatis; caule ereéto, arboreo; || —_—deaves entire, egg-fhaped, tapered; ftemup- 
us nerii; alato femine. right, growing to a tree; with flowers like 
se 3 the oleander; feed winged. 
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REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 
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of Bignonia ig well known in moft colletions of hothoufe plants, and was firft eerre™ 
a gar dens by Mr. P. Miller, the then gardener, in 1759, and may be found defcribed in 
but, notwithftanding its frequency, few haye feen its bloffoms. Owing to the naked . 
of the ftem, and its growing to fo confiderable a height before it flowers, and that but 
rendered it a plant but of little confideration; though perhaps, from the great beauty of 
ene more attention. Being a native of the Weft Indies, it does not flourifh without 
of tan heat; but will live in any fituation of the hothoufe; thriving beft in a coixters 
“ basa readily propagated by cuttings. It was from a plant in the felect and valuable 
ton, belonging to the Hon. Dowager Lady De Clifford (to whom the author, as wel} 
ors and profeffors of the fcience, ftand much indebted for the zeal and patronage 
yth ag fhewn, in her endeavours to promote it), that this figure was taken inte Z 
