HABBELEA 



BIGNONIA OBDEB 



BIGNONIA 731 



1 in. long, silky-white above, and rusty- 

 woolly beneath. Flowers in early summer, 

 yellow, bell-shaped, with 4 obovate, nearly 

 equal segments, and 1-2 on a scape. 



Culture Sc. as above. This species 

 may be treated like iJ. pyrenaica. There 

 is a variety called Bathalie, which is said 

 to be very free-flowering. 



HABERLEA.— A genus with only 1 

 species : — 



H. rhodopensis. — A charming little 

 Eomnelian rock plant 4-6 in. high with 

 rosettes of thiokish coarsely toothed, 

 bluntly obovate oblong leaves closely re- 

 sembling those of Ba/mondia pyrenaioa. 

 Flowers in April and May, pale hlao, 1 in. 

 across, drooping in umbels, 2-5 on a 

 stoutish scape. Calyx bell-shaped, 5-cleft. 

 Corolla tube broadly beU-shaped, widened 



at the mouth, limb 2-lipped, the upper lip 

 2-cleft, the lower one 3-cleft, and about 

 twice as long, all the lobes rounded. Fer- 

 tile stamens 4, didynamous, with cohering 

 anthers. Ovary superior. Capsule some- 

 what enclosed by the calyx. 



Culture a/nd Propagation. — This 

 species may be grown under exactly simi- 

 lar conditions to the Bamondiaa. It 

 flourishes in fibrous peat, and looks charm- 

 ing fixed in clefts between rooks, in a 

 position facing north. In the absence of 

 a rookery it will thrive in a shady part of 

 a peaty border among Bhododendrons, 

 Azaleas, and other Ericaceous plants. 

 There are forms known as robusta and 

 grandiflora, both more vigorous than the 

 type. The plants may be raised from 

 seeds in the same way as Bamiondia, and 

 also by means of careful division. 



LXXXIV. BIGNONIACEiE— Bignonia Order 



A rather large order of trees, shrubs, rarely herbs, often twining and climbing, 

 with opposite, rarely alternate, often compound or simple leaves without 

 stipules. Flowers hermaphrodite, more or less irregular, in terminal panicles. 

 Calyx inferior, gamosepalous, entire, lobed, or spathe-like. Corolla gamopeta- 

 lous, tubular, funnel-shaped, or somewhat bell- or salver-shaped, with 5 more 

 or less spreading lobes. Stamens 5, unequal, 1 always sterile, sometimes 3. 

 Fruit a dry, frequently woody, capsule, often long and more or less compressed. 

 The representatives of this order (there are about 450 species) are chiefly 

 natives of the Tropics, and many of them are noble-looking trees. 



BIGNONIA.— A genus of high climb- 

 ing shrubs with opposite, simple, conju- 

 gate, ternate, digitate or pinnatifid leaves, 

 the terminal lobe of which often ends in 

 a tendril. Flowers axillary or terminal, 

 usually in panicles. Calyx bell-shaped 

 or tubular, entire or slightly toothed.. 

 CoroUa tube often elongated, straight, or 

 incurved ; limb distinctly or slightly 2- 

 lipped and 5-lobed. Fertile stamens 4, 

 didynamous, with a rudiment of a fifth, 

 rarely slightly protruding. Ovary almost 

 sessile or shortly stalked. Capsule linear, 

 often elongated. 



B. capreolata. — A handsome smooth 

 N. American climber with conjugate leaves 

 composed of heart-shaped-oblong leaflets 

 and terminal branched tendrils. Flowers 

 from May to August, large, orange-yellow, 

 tubular beU-shaped, numerous. The 

 variety atrosangwinea has reddish-purple 

 flowers. 



Culture a/nd Propagation. — This 

 species is the only one out of about 100 or 

 more that may be considered hardy or 

 almost hardy in the most favourable parts 

 of the south of England and Ireland, 

 although it will stand a few degrees of 

 fi-ost in the Thames VaUey when grown 

 against a south wall. In northern parts 

 it is usually grown as a greenhouse 

 climber. 



It flourishes in good, well-drained, 

 sandy loam and leaf soU. Perhaps the 

 best way to increase the plant is by 

 layering the lower branches during the 

 summer and autumn months, and not 

 detaching them until the following spring. 

 Cuttings of the young shoots will root in 

 bottom heat under beU-glasses in spring, 

 but care must be taken not to get them 

 too damp at first or they wiU rot. They 

 often take 2 or 3 months to develop roots 

 properly, after which, if well established, 

 each one may be put into a pot in rich, 



