CHAP. LXXIX. 



BIGN ON 1 A y CEJE. TE' COMA. 



1259 



having the dissepiment parallel with the valves. Seeds disposed in 

 2 rows, imbricate, transverse, with membranous wings. {Don's Mill., iv. 

 p. 216.) — Usually climbing shrubs, furnished with tendrils, rarely erect 

 trees or shrubs. Leaves opposite, simple, conjugate, trifoliolate, digitate, 

 or pinnate. Flowers axillary and terminal, usually panicled. Corollas 

 trumpet-shaped, white, yellow, orange-coloured, purple, violaceous, or rose- 

 coloured. The only hardy species is a subevergreen climber, a native of 

 North America ; and, like all the plants of this order, easily propagated by 

 cuttings of the roots, or shoots. 



1 fl- 1. B. capreola n ta L. The tendriled Bignonia, or Trumpet Flower. 



Identification. Lin. Sp., 870. ; Hort. Cliff., 317. ; Don's Mill., 4. p. 217. 



Engravings. Bot. Mag., t. 864. ; Breyn. Icon., 33. t. 25. ; Du Ham. Arb., 1. p. 104. t. 40. ; Bocc. Sic, 

 31. t. 15. f. 31. ; Zan. Hist., 74. f. 2. ed. 2. 49. t. 33. ; and our fig. 1090. 



Spec. Char., ^c. Climbing. Leaves conjugate; leaflets cordate-oblong; lower 

 ones simple. Tendrils small, trifid ; the lobes bifurcate. Peduncles axillary, 

 1-flowered, crowded. Calyx entire. Corollas red- 

 dish yellow. Follicles flattened, 1 ft. long. (Don's 

 Alill, iv. p. 217.) A climbing shrub, a native of 

 North America, in the more southern parts ; flower- 

 ing in June and July. The follicles are said, as 

 above, to be a foot long ; but, on an open wall, in 

 the Horticultural Society's Garden, they do not 

 exceed 6 in. or 8 in. It was introduced in 1710, and 

 forms a very ornamental wall climber in British 

 gardens. This is an excellent plant for covering 

 dead walls, from its great capability of extension, its 

 being subevergreen, and the singular shape of its 

 large and handsome leaflets. It requires a sheltered 

 situation, and favourable exposure, in order to 

 flower freely. The plant of this species in the Horticultural Society's 

 Garden ripens seeds. Price of plants, in the London nurseries, 2s. each ; 

 at Bollwyller, where it is a green-house plant, 4 francs ; and at New York, 

 50 cents. 



Genus II. 



^ 



TE'COMA Juss. The Tecoma. Lin. Syst. Didynamia Angiospermia. 



Identification. Juss. Gen., p. 139. ; R. Br. Prod., 471. ; H. B. et Kunth Nov. Gen. Amer., 3/p. 142. ; 



Lindl. Nat. Syst. Bot., 2d edit., p. 282. ; Don's Mill., 4. p. 223. 

 Synonyme. Bignonia sp. of Lin. and others. 

 Derivation. From Tecomaxochitl, the Mexican name of one of the species. 



Gen. Char., $c. Calyx campanulate, 5-toothed. Corolla with a short tube, 

 and a campanulate throat ; limb 5-lobed, bilabiate. Stamens 4, didynamous; 

 that is, 2 long and 2 short ; with the rudiment of a fifth sterile filament. 

 Stigma bilamellate. Capsule silique-formed, 2-celled, having the dissepi- 

 ment contrary to the valves. Seeds disposed in 2 rows, imbricate, winged, 

 transverse. (Don's Mill., iv. p. 223.) — The only hardy species yet intro- 

 duced is a deciduous climbing shrub. 



-i 1. T. radTcans Juss. The rooting-branched Tecoma, or Trumpet Flower. 



Identification. Juss. Gen., p. 139. ; Don's Mill., 4. p. 225. 



Synonymes. Bignbm'a radlcans Lin. Sp., 871., Hort. Cliff., 317., Ups., 178., Gron. Virg., 73., 

 Mill. Icon., t. 65., Du Ham. Arb., 1. p. 103. t. 1., Sab. Hort., 2. t. 84., Du Roi Harbk., 1. p. 116., 

 Wangenh. Amer., 68. t. 26. f. 53., Willd. Arb., 47., Curt. Bot. Mag., t. 485., Riv. Mon., p. 101., 

 Mor. Hist., 3. p. 612. f. 15. t. 3. f. 1., Corn. Can., 102. t. 103. ; Bignonm radicans major Hort., 

 Gelsemium Clematis Barrel. Icon., 59.; Bignbm'a /raxinifolia Catesb. Car.; Jasmin de Virginie, 

 Fr. ; Wurzeln Bignonia, Ger. ; Esschenbladige Bignonia, Dutch. 



Derivation. Wurzeln is, simply, rooting ; and Esschenbladige, ash-leaved. 



Engravings. Bot. Mag., t. 485. ; and our fig. 1091. 



*4n 7 



