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BIGNONIA VENUSTA. 
(LOVELY TRUMPET-FLOWER.) 
CLASS. ORDER. 
DIDYNAMIA. ANGIOSPERMTA. 
NATURAL ORDER, 
BIGNONIACEiE. 
Generic Character. — Calyx campanulate, five-toothed, rarely entire. Corolla with a short tube, a cam- 
panulate throat, and a five-lobed bilabiate limb. Stamens four, didynamous. Lobes of anthers 
divaricate. Stigma two-plated. Capsule silique-shaped, two-celled ; having the dissepiments 
parallel with the valves ; seeds disposed in two rows, imbricated, transverse, with membranous wings. 
Specific Character. — Plant a climbing shrub, with a glabrous greenish bark, which has longitudinal pro- 
jecting ribs of a whitish-brown hue. Leaves opposite ; lower ones ternate, and destitute of tendrils; 
upper ones in pairs, and furnished with tendrils ; leaflets oblong-ovate, obtuse, deep-green, smooth. 
Corymbs terminal. Flowers very numerous and dense, of a light orange colour. Calyx villous, 
short, five-toothed. Corolla clavately funnel-shaped, with five spreading segments; the two upper 
ones nearly erect ; the three lower ones more distant, recurved. Stamens ascending ; filaments in- 
serted near the base of the throat. Anthers yellow, oblong. Germen green, round. 
Were it possible to bring together all the most ornamental objects which have 
from the remotest ages engaged the talent and affections of floriculturists, we are 
persuaded that there would be a new era in the art, and that the choicest collections 
would assume quite another aspect. As with the noble and the gifted among the 
human race, there are many lovely individuals which, in spite of every effort on the 
part of those who appreciate their worth, lie buried in the all-absorbing tomb of 
time, few evincing a readiness to put forth a hand and rescue their merits from the 
obliviousness with which they are apt to be regarded. 
We have no pretensions to the performance of the above generous office for 
those of our own species ; but in the floral sphere, we are ever on the alert to 
select such plants as appear to be most notoriously and improperly neglected, and 
endeavour to restore them to the status they once enjoyed. In this pursuit, we 
ofttimes find ourselves most richly rewarded, and are assured that our subscribers 
are often gratified by the result of our researches. An extraordinary instance, in 
which the superlative value of the subject has failed to preserve it from the grossest 
inattention, is herewith offered. 
