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t. 435. — A climbing shrub, running over the highest trees, having 

 showy rose-coloured, bell-shaped, flowers, and triangular follicles. 

 The whole plant abounds in a milky caoutchouc juice, which is 

 like India Rubber, but hardly elastic. 



VICARIA, Pentandria Digynia. Name given in honour of 

 Captain Vicary, employed in Assam. 



8. V Ceistata, Wall. Cat. (?) — An extensive climber, with 

 broad-acuminate, regularly veined, entire leaves, and thick follicles, 

 deeply wrinkled ; garden Hewra ; seed received from late Dr. 

 Wallich. 



GOMPHOCARPUS, Pentandria Digynia. Name given from 

 the club-like appearance of the seed-vessel. 



9. G Arborescens, R. Br. in Mem. of West. Soc. p 37 ; Hort. 

 Kew., 2nd ed., vol. 2, p 79. — A tall straight-growing shrub, with 

 villous stem and glabrate leaves ; white flowers ; follicle terminal, 

 having numerous spines ; garden Dapoorie. From Cape seed. 



LVII.— BIGNONIACE^, Don's Syst. 4, p 214. 



THE TRUMPET-FLOWER TRIBE. 



BIGNONIA. Named from the Abbe Bignon, Librarian to 

 Louis XIV. 



MILLINGTONIA, Linn., Didynamia Angiospermia; Linn. 

 Supp. 291 ; Juss. Gen. 138 ; Willd. sp. 3, p 382 ; Bignonia suberosa, 

 Roxb. 



1. M HoRTENSis, Linn. Suppl. 291 ; Willd. sp. 3, p 382; Big- 

 nonia suberosa, Roxb. Fl. Ind. 3, p 111 . — Leaves about 2 feet 

 long, variously divided and subdivided ; have much resemblance to 

 the foHage of Melia; flowers long-tubed, pure white, fragrant, It 

 is believed to be a native of Ajmere. It has never been seen to 

 produce seed in this latitude, but plants are readily obtainable from 

 the numerous root-shoots. It is a magnificent tree, tall and straight. 



TECOMA, Juss. Gen. p 139; R. Br. Prod. 471 ; H. B. Kunth, 

 nov. Gen. Amer. 3, p 142. 



2. T Capbnsis. — A scandent shrub, with pinnate leaves, and 9 

 or 10 serrated shining leaflets; flowers red, with a darkish tint of 

 orange. Native of the Cape ; now common as a pot-plant and a 

 shrub in Indian gardens. 



3. T Stans. — A tall shrub with branches somewhat quadrate ; 

 pinnate leaves; leaflets in one variety deeply serrate, in another 

 entire, showy, yellow flowers, streaked with red lines on the inside. 

 Common in gardens, Bombay, Poona, &c. 



4. T Radicans, Willd. 3, p 30 1 ; Spr. syst. 2, p 834 ; Don's syst. 

 4, 225 ; Bot. Mag. t. 485; Catesby Carolina 1, t. 65. — The rooting 



