PLATE LXXXVI. 



BTGNONIA PANDORANA. 



Norfolk IJland Trumpet Flower. 



CLASS XIV. ORDER II. 

 DWYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA. Two Chives longer. Seeds covered. 



ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Calyx quinquefidus, cyathiformis. 



Corolla fauce campanulata. quinquefida, fub- 



tus ventricofa. Siliqua bilocularis. Se- 



mina membranaceo-alata. 



Emf-alement, five-cleft, cupfhaped. 



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

 bellied beneath. A pod of two cells. Seed 

 winged with a lkinny membrane. 



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



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Bignonia foliis pinnatis; foliolis lanceolatis, 

 dentatisj caule volubili; floribus racemo- 

 fis, tcimiiKilibus. 



Trumpet Flower with winged leaves; the fmall 

 leaves are lance-fhaped, and toothed; a 

 climbing (tern ; 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 fpecies of Trumpet Flower, is a native of Norfolk Ifland in the Pacific Ocean, lying in 2Q deg. 

 2 min. fouth lat.; therefore, mutt be kept with us as a greenhoufe plant ; and, as a creeper, may be 

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

 earth,) and flowering abundantly from the month of March, 'till June. It is eafily increafed by cut- 

 tings, made in the (bring, or by fuckers, which it frequently produces from the root. The plant 

 from which our drawing was made, flowered (and we believe for the firft time in England) in 1798, 

 in the colle&ion of J. Vere, Efq. Kenfington Gore. 



Naturalifls, when in detailing the hiitory of the various articles pafling under their review, fhould 

 receive with caution, any matter which feems tending to the marvellous ; but for the authenticity of 

 the authority, from whence we are furniihed with the account of the Angularly peftiferous character of 

 this plant, we can with confidence pledge ourfelves. Colonel Paterfon, now commanding at Port 

 Jacklbn, New Holland, lent the feeds from Norfolk Iiland, when he was flationed there, to Meflrs. 

 Lee and Kennedy Hammerfmith, who firft railed it, in the year 1 793. The N. I. Trumpet Flower 

 is, in its native foil, a deciduous plant ; upon the return of the fealbn, in which the young tendrils 

 begin to (hoot, and the leaves begin to appear; within fifteen, or twenty days, the whole 

 plant is entirely covered with a white downy infedt, of the genus Aphis, fomething fimilar to our 

 blight; which, in a very lhort time from their firft appearance on this plant, become fo completely 

 difperfed over every vegetable production, that fearce. a green leaf is to be teen through the whole 

 extent of the ifland. So great a plague was this infett thought to be, from its eft'edts on vegetation, 

 by thofe who were lent to colonize the ifland, that it was confidered as one of the principal reafon* 

 for abandoning the fettlement. 



