PLATE LXXXYI. 



BIGNONIA PANDORANA. 



Norfolk IJland Trumpet Flower. 



CLASS XIV. ORDER IL 



mDYNJMIA JNGIOSPERMI^. Two Chives longer. Seedscovered 



ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Calyx quinqnefidas, cyathiformls. || Empalement, five-cleft, cup^fliaped. 



Corolla fauce campanulat'a,quinquefida^ fub- 

 tuft ventricofa, Siliqua bilocularis. Se 

 mina raembranaceo-alata. 



Blossom bell-fhaped at the mouth, five-cleft, and 

 bellied beneath. A pod of two cells. Seed 



winged with a fkinny membrane. 

 See PI. XLIII. Bignonia Leucoxylon, Vol. I. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER, 



Bignonia foliis pinnatisj foliolls lanceolatis, 

 dentatis; caule volubili; floribus racemo- 

 fis, temiinalibus. 





Trumpet Flower with winged leaves ] the fmall 

 , leaves are lance-fhaped, and toothed j a 



climbing ftem 5 the flowers grow in bunches^ 



and terminate the branches. 



REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 



1 . The Empalement. 



2. A Flower cut open, to expofe the fituation of the Chives. 



3. The Pointal, and Seed-bud^ (magnified). 



4. A Seed. 



This fpec.es of Trumpet Floxver, is a native of Norfolk liland in the Pacific Ocean, lying in 2Q deg. 

 2 mm. fouih lat.; therefoic, muftbe kept with us as a greenhoufe plant j and, as a creeper, may be 

 placed to twine round the pillars, or to cover trellis workj being of quick growth (if planted in peat 



March 



ling., made in the fpring, or by fuckers, which it. frequently produces from the root. The plant 

 rom ^vhtch our drawing was made, flowered (and we believe for the firft time in England) in 1 798, 



collciSdon 



Katuralifts, when in detailing the hiftoo' of the various articles pafling under their review, iliould 

 reccue %vitb cautu.n, any nutter which feeras tending to the marvellous; but for the authenticity of 

 inc aiiihonty, from whence wc are furnifbed with the account of the fingularly peftiferous charader of 

 i.ck.^n v'''' u n ^^i^h confidence pledge ourfelves. Colonel Paterfon, now commanding at Port 

 Jacklon New Hd and, fent the feeds from Norfolk Ifiand, when he was fiationed there, to Meflrs. 

 k in h Kennedy Hammcrfmith, who firft raifed it. in the year 1793. The N. I. Trumpet Flower 



V'T"" ' ^ '\^«<i'^o^s plant ; upon tlie return of the feafon, in which the young tendrils 

 niu iscnnn f^^^^^^ begin to appear; within fifteen, or twenty days, the whole 



t^lv T^^TT T^ "" :'^^^ ^' ^^- genus Aphis, fomething fimilar to our 



d U>ertH o. :^.r '"' f^K.^' ^^"' '"" '^"" ^'^ ^PP^^'-^"'^^ -^ ^^- Pl-^ become fo completely 

 r tTnt Mb , !? 'T^"" P^"1"^'°"' ''''' ^-- - S-n leaf is to' be Veen through the whole 



by thot .ho 1" fent^ '''T ■ 'T- T" V" ^"^"^^ ''''''^''' ^° ^^' ^-- i'« ^^^^^ - vegetation, 

 fir .bandoni ; ;: t w^^^ ^'^ ''''''' '""'' '^ -^ -^^^dered as one of the principat reafon» 



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