ALLAMANDA GRANDIFLORA. 
Class. 
PENTANDRIA. 
(Large-flowered Allamanda.) 
Natural Order. 
APOCYNACE.E. 
Order. 
MONOGYNIA. 
Generic Character,— Calyx five-parted; segments 
lanceolate- oblong, acute. Corolla funnel-shaped, with 
a narrow tube; and a swollen, large, inflated limb, 
which is five-cleft at the apex ; furnished with five 
scales in the throat of the tube, which cover the 
anthers. Anthers five, almost sessile, converging. 
Style one. Stigma capitate, contracted in the middle, 
adhering to the anthers. Capsule echinated, roundish- 
elliptic, one-celled, two-valved, many-seeded. Seeds 
surrounded by a membranous edge, fixed to the edge 
of the valves. Albumen wanting. 
Specific Character. — Plant shrubby evergreen. 
Stem erect, or spreading, not scandent, covered with 
very short downy hairs when young. Leaves three in 
a whorl, nearly sessile, oblong-lance-shaped, acute, 
attenuated at the base, pilose both on the mid-rib and 
lateral veins beneath. Flowers very large, lemon- 
coloured, in clusters, usually of four or five, at the end 
of the young shoots. 
For the opportunity of preparing the accompanying figure of this showy 
plant, we are indebted to the kindness of one of our most successful cultivators, 
Mr. Dodds, gardener to Colonel Baker, at Salisbury, who favoured us with 
specimens in September, 1844. 
We learn by a communication from Mr. Cunningham, of Edinburgh, that it 
was first discovered by Mr. Gardner whilst exploring the Brazils ; and from seeds 
supplied by him, in 1836, it was reared in the Comely Bank Nursery, Edinburgh. 
From this source the plants now in the London and large provincial nursery 
establishments were primarily obtained. At this time fine specimens are in several 
of the metropolitan gardens ; and although yellow flowers are seldom so much 
prized as those of other colours, the extraordinary size and great abundance of 
those of this plant invest it with so much conspicuousness, that it can scarcely fail 
to attract its merited quota of regard. 
It seems doubtful whether it can be regarded as a distinct species, and we are 
more disposed to consider it in the light of a strongly marked variety of 
A. cathartica. The most prominent distinguishing traits which it presents are the 
larger size of the blossoms — usually between four and four inches and a half in 
diameter, their paler colour, and the absence of a climbing character. The leaves, 
moreover, are smaller, more closely nerved, and commonly only three in a whorl, 
whilst the complement in A. cathartica is generally four. A healthy plant under 
good management will form a compact bush, two or three feet high, and nearly as 
