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pinnate, with entire oval leaflets. Flowers very long, yellow with green 

 lobes, and red calyx, in many-flowered racemes : July. Introduced from 

 Peru, 1825. 



E. SCABER (rough). Stems angular and hairy, 12 to 15 feet high. 

 Leaves twice - pinnate ; leaflets alternate, unequally heart-shaped. 

 Flowers deep orange or scarlet, with swollen throat, in many-flowered 

 racemes; July and August. Introduced from Chili, 1824. Plate 216. 

 Cultivation. . EccreTYiocarpus is raised from seeds sown about March 

 in slight heat, and grown on in the greenhouse with 

 fairly rich light soil until the middle of May, when they may be planted 

 out against a wall or trellis, where they will flower a couple of months 

 later. Any soil that is light and fairly good will suit them, and if the 

 situation is sheltered, the plants will probably endure the winter outside ; 

 especially is this likely in the South of England, where they are usually 

 quite ardy. 



Upper shoot of Eccremocarpiis scaber with flowers. 

 216- The plant naturally grows with the racemes hanging 

 Fig. 1 is an enlarged flower, and Fig. 2 is a section of the same. 



TEUMPET FLOWERS 



Natural Order Bignoniace^. Genus Bignmiia 



BiGNONiA (named in honour of the Ahh6 Bignon, librarian to Louis iv.) 

 A large genus consisting of about one hundred and twenty species 

 chiefly shrubby climbers (a few trees or erect shrubs), with opposite 

 leaves, and flexible stems, twisted like ropes, that often hang from tree to 

 tree, supported by strong tendrils. The calyx is bell-shaped, toothed or 

 entire. The corolla is shortly tubular, with a bell-shaped throat and a 

 slightly irregular five-lobed limb, divided into two lips. There are four 

 fertile stamens and a rudimentary fifth. The capsule is two-celled 

 opening by two valves. The species are natives of America, chiefly of 

 the Tropical portions. 



Principal species. BiGNONiA CAPREOLATA (having tendrils. Capreolate, 

 pertaining to a goat). Stem 15 feet long. Leaves divided 

 into a pair of heart-shaped leaflets, and ending in a small three-branched 

 tendnl. Flowers orange, crowded; April to August. Introduced from 

 North America, 1710. Known as the Goat or Cross Vine. Hardy in the 

 South oi England. There is a var. atrosanguinea, with red-purple 



