BIGNONIA CHAMBERLAYNII. 
(Mr. Chamberlayne’s Trumpet-flower.) 
Class. 
DIDYNAMIA. 
Natural Order. 
BIGNONIACEjE. 
Order. 
ANGIOSPERMIA. 
Generic Character. — Calyx campanulate, five- 
toothed, rarely entire. Corolla with a short tube, a 
campanulate throat, and a five-lobed bilabiate limb. 
Stamens four, didynamous, that is, two long and two 
short, with the rudiment of a fifth. Lobes of anthers 
divaricate. Stigma bilamellate. Capsule silique-formed, 
two-celled, having the dissepiment parallel with 
the valves ; seeds disposed in two rows, imbricate, 
transverse, with membranous wings. 
Specific Character. — Plant a climbing evergreen. 
Branches terete, glabrous. Leaves conjugate ; leaflets 
ovate, acuminated, glabrous, shining above. Tendrils 
strong, simple. Racemes axillary, six to eight-flowered. 
Calyx cupulate, entire, or obsoletely five-toothed. 
Corolla funnel-shaped, yellow ; segments obtuse. — 
Don’s Gard. and Bot. 
Synonyms. — B. cequinoctialis. 
Of the many plants catalogued as Bignonias, and which are enumerated as 
species of that genus, very few are in cultivation. How it comes that such 
manageable, and in many other respects interesting plants, are not more favourably 
regarded, is not easily determined. There cannot be a doubt but many are 
eminently calculated to reward the efforts of culturists; and although a great 
proportion of the genus are climbers, and would be more in place on the rafters 
of the greenhouse and stove, they are equally as tractable when grown in pots like 
Allamanda, Stephanotus floribundus, and others. The fact that nearly the whole 
are considered stove plants may have operated to hinder an extensive cultivation of 
the family ; but it should not ; for of all the reputed stove species there are few 
that will not dispense with the protection of that house and flourish in the green- 
house, or even in the open air, under favourable circumstances. 
The species of which a plate is here given bloomed in perfection last autumn 
in the stove at the Exotic Nursery (Messrs. Knight and Perry’s), when the above 
drawing was taken. B. Chamberlaynii was planted in the house and secured to a 
trellis immediately beneath its roof, and covered at the above period a large space 
with handsome foliage and flowers. It is a rather slender-growing evergreen 
climber, having many recommendations to secure attention, not the least of which 
is its disposition to blossom abundantly without any stimulant being employed to 
induce it to do so. Any tolerable position in a greenhouse or mild stove might 
