JACARANDA TOMENTOSA. 
(Tomentose Jacaranda.) 
Class. 
DIDYNAMIA. 
Order. 
ANGIOSPERMIA. 
Natural Order. 
BIGNONlACEiE. 
Generic Character. — Calyx campanulate, five- 
thed; rarely tubular, truncate, entii’c. Corolla 
mlar at the base, very much dilated above, campa- 
late, ventricose beneath , limb bilabiate, five-lobed. 
mens four, didynamous, with a fifth longer sterile 
ment, which is villously bearded at top. Anthers 
i-lobed in most of the species, with an obsolete rudi- 
nt of another lobe, rarely two-lobed, with the lobes 
ml and diverging. Stigma bilamellate. Capsule 
ad, compressed, two-celled ; valves thick, ligneous, 
sepiment contrary to the valves, placentiferous on 
h sides. Seeds fiat, transverse, with foliaceously- 
iged edges, outer testa coriaceous, rugosely plicate. 
Specffic'Character. — Plant, a tree, sometimes grow- 
ing several feet in height. Bark grey. Leaves a span 
long, bipinnate, with three to five pairs of pinnae, and 
an odd one ; leaflets ovate or elliptic, acute or acumin- 
ated, unequal, tomentose in the young state, and 
beneath in the adult state. Panicles small, terminal, 
tomentose. Peduncles one to three-flowered. Calyx 
with ovate, acute teeth. Corolla silky, violaceous, 
with a widened throat. Anthers two-lobed, lobes equal. 
Capsule oval-orbicular. 
SvNONYME. — J. pubescens. 
The genus Jacaranda is composed of a few species, valuable for their handsome 
iage and splendid flowers. They all originate in South America, where they 
'01 trees, sometimes of large size — most of them occasionally acquiring an 
itude of from twenty to forty feet. In our stoves they are more diminutive ; 
d, with a little extra attention and suitable course of treatment, specimens not 
seeding the dimensions of an ordinary Pelargonium are induced to develope 
• pious panicles of their trumpet-formed flowers. 
From the rest of the family the present is distinguished immediately by its very 
I isimilar leaves. Other species resemble the fine pinnate-leaved Mimosas in the 
f m and elegance of their foliage ; but this approaches more nearly to some of the 
' comas ( T. capensis). Beyond this, it is recognised by the botanist, when in 
wer, from the less prominent though not less important departure from the 
i m of its a.ssociates, discovered in the anthers ; the rest having but one lobe and 
3 rudiments of a second, whilst the present has two lobes equally perfect. 
It was imported a few years ago by Messrs. Knight and Perry, under the 
1 3cific title of Bignonia Mauritiensis. This would indicate an African extraction; 
t it is most evidently an inadvertent error, as the species had previously been 
::eived in this country from Brazil. We learn, moreover, from the “Botanical 
igister,” that a specimen reared from seeds, gathered in Mexico by Sir Thomas 
irdy, flowered at Messrs. Whitley and Osborne’s nursery in the summer of 1827. 
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