PLATE XLIII. 



B I G N O N I A L E U COXYLON. 



Oleander-flowered Trumpet Flower. 

 CLASS XIV. ORDER II. 



D1DYNJMIA ANG 10 SPERM I J. 



GENERIC 



Calyx. IYrianthium monophylluro, ercctum, 

 cyathi-fornie, quinquefidum. 



Corolla raonopetala, campauulata; tubus mi- 

 nimus, longitudine calycis; faux longillima, 

 fuhtus ventricofa ; limbus quinque parti tus; 

 kiciniis duabus iuperioribus reflexis; inferi- 

 oribus patulis. 



Stamina. Filametita quatuor, fubulata, corolla 

 breviora, quorum duo rcliquis longiora. 

 Antherae reflexae, oblongae, vclut dupli- 

 cate. 



Pistillum. Germen oblongum. Stylus fili- 

 formis, fitu et rigura fiaminum. Stigma 

 capita turn. 



Pekicahpium. Siliqua bilocularis, bivalvis. 



Semina plurima, imbricata, comprefl'a, utrinque 

 membranaceo alata. 



SPECIFIC 



Bignonia foliis digitatis; foliolis inlegerrimis, 

 ovatis, acuminatis; caule erecto, arboreoj 

 fioribus nerii; alato femine. 



Two Chives longer. Seeds covered. 



CHARACTER. 



Empalkmbnt. Cup one leaf, upright, cup- 

 fhaped, and cut into five divifions. 



Blossom of one bell-lhaped petal; tube fmall, 

 the length of the cup; mouth very long, 

 f welled at the bottom; border of five divi- 

 fions; the two upper tegmenta reflexed, the 

 lower ones fpreading. 



Chives. Threads four, awl-fhaped, fhorter than 

 the blofiom, two of which are longer than 

 the others. Tips bent back, oblong, and 

 appear doubled. 



Pointal. Seed-bud oblong. Shaft thread- 

 fhaped, of the fame fituation and fhape as 

 the chives. Summit headed. 



Seed-vessel. Pod of two cells, and two valves. 



Seeds many, laying one over the other, flat, and 

 winged at each fide. 

 CHARACTER. 



Trumpet Flower with fingered leaves; the fmall 

 leaves entire, egg-fhaped, tapered , Item up- 

 right, growing to a tree; with flowers like 

 the oleander; feed winged. 



REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 



1 . The Empalement. 



2. A Blofiom cut open, (hewing the proportionate length of the Chives to the Bloflbm, and their 



infertion; one of the Tips detached, and magnified. 



3. The Pointal, (natural fize); the Summit detached, and magnified. 



This fpecies of Bignonia is well known in moft colleftions of hothoufe plants, and was firft introduced 

 to the Chelfea gardens by Mr. P. Miller, the then gardener, in l"5g, and may be found deleribed in 

 his Dictionary; but, notwithstanding its frequency, few have feen its bloffoms. Owing to the naked 

 appearance of the ftem, and its growing to fo confiderable a height before it flowers, and that but 

 rarely, has rendered it a plant but of little confideration; though perhaps, from the great beauty of 

 its bloffoms, it deferves more attention. Being a native of the Wefl Indies, it does not flourifh without 

 the afliftance of tan heat; but will live in any fituation of the hothoufe; thriving bell in a mixture 

 of loam and peat, and is readily propagated by cuttings. It was from a plant in the fek . t and valuable 

 collection at Paddington, belonging to the Hon. Dowager Lady De Clifford (to whom the author, as well 

 as all the cultivators and profeflbrs of the fcience, fland much indebted for the zeal and patronage 

 which her ladyfhip has iliewn, in her endeavours to promote it), that this figure was taken in July 

 this prefent year 1/98. 



