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Miller speaks of some in full vigour, and producing an 

 abundance of flowers every season, which he knew to be 

 upwards of sixty years old. 



The green-house and hot-house boast of many other 

 species of this splendid genus. 



Maximilian mentions a variety of Bignonias growing 

 luxuriantly in the w^oods of Brazil, enlivening them with 

 every variety of colour. 



" Several Bignonias overhung the river ; they were 

 loaded with large beautiful violet-coloured flowers, which 

 appear before the leaves, and were j ust opening, — pink- 

 blossomed ones also. 



" The Bougainvillaea Brasiliensis twined round the 

 tops of the trees, which were partly without leaves, and 

 covered them all over with its rose-coloured flowers : 

 numerous varieties, also, of Trumpet flowers, some rising 

 high, some creeping on the ground, were growing in the 

 greatest luxuriance ; adorned with every variety of rose- 

 coloured, violet, white, and yellow blossoms. 



" This beautiful Bougainvill^a, and Bignonias, co- 

 vered with a profusion of gold-coloured blossoms the 

 dark tops of the loftiest trees.'' 



Again, he describes " a forest of old colossal trees, as 

 Mimosas, Lignum Vitse, and Bignonias, &c., with parasite 

 plants, as Passiflora,Bauhinia,Banisteria, &c.; the climbing 

 stems of which were rooted in the ground, while their 

 leaves and flowers occupy only the highest summits of 

 their supporters ; so that they cannot be examined 

 without cutting down one of those gigantic monarchs of 

 the forest*." 



* Maximilian's Brazil. 



