ALLAMANDA GRANDIFLORA. 
^ (Large-flowered Allamanda.) 
Class. Order. 
PENTANDRIA. MONOGYNTA. 
Natural Order. 
APOCYNACE^. 
jENERic Character.— five-parted ; segments 
iceolate-oblong, acute. Corolla funnel-shaped, with 
larrow tube ; and a swollen, large, infiated limb, 
lich is five-cleft at the apex ; furnished with five 
des in the throat of the tube, which cover the 
I thers. Anthers five, almost sessile, converging. 
tie one. Stigma capitate, contracted in the middle, 
hering to the anthers. Capsule echinated, roundish- 
iptic, one-celled, two-valved, many-seeded. Seeds 
•rounded by a membranous edge, fixed to the edge 
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, oblongAance-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 
ant, we are indebted to the kindness of one of our most successful cultivators, 
r. Dodds, gardener to Colonel Baker, at Salisbury, who favoured us with 
ecimens in September, 1844. 
We l^rn by a communication from Mr. Cunningham, of Edinburgh, that it 
as first discovered by Mr. Gardner whilst exploring the Brazils ; and from seeds 
pplied by him, in 1836, it was reared in the Comely Bank Nursery, Edinburgh, 
fom this source the plants now in the London and large provincial nursery 
tablishments were primarily obtained. At this time fine specimens are in several 
^ the metropolitan gardens ; and although yellow flowers are seldom so much 
ized as those of other colours, the extraordinary size and great abundance of 
ose of this plant invest it with so much conspicuousness, that it can scarcely fail 
I attract its merited quota of regard. 
' It seems doubtful whether it can be regarded as a distinct species, and %e are 
ore disposed to consider it in the light of a strongly marked variety of 
I. cathartica. The most prominent distinguishing traits which it presents are the 
rger size of the blossoms — usually between four and four inches and a half in 
ameter, their paler colour, and the absence of a climbing character. The leaves, 
oreover, are smaller, more closely nerved, and commonly only three in a whorl, 
bilst the complement in A. cathartica is generally four. A healthy plant under 
"od management will form a compact biisli, two or three feet high, and nearly as 
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