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THUNBERGIA H AWTAYNEANA. 
(haWTAYNe's THUNBERGIA.) 
CLASS. 
D1DYNAMIA. 
NATURAL ORDER. 
ACANTHACEiE. 
Generic Character. — Vide vol. ii. p. 2. 
Specific Character. — Plmit climbing, shrubby. Stems numerous, round, smooth, usually slender. 
Leaves opposite, sessile, oval, acute or terminated by a small obtuse protuberance, of a lighter green 
beneath than above, liberally and distinctly veined, perfectly smooth. Flowers axillary, pedunculate, 
generally appearing opposite each other, one at the base of every leaf. Calyx composed of two 
parts, sheathing the base of the corolla tube, pale green. Corolla bluish-purple, with a yellow tube 
nearly an inch and a half long ; limb divided into five neady equal bifid segments. 
We owe our permission to publish a figure of this very splendid species to the 
courteousness of Mrs. Lawrence, Drayton Green, Middlesex, in whose select and 
valuable collection, — comprising such numbers of the choicest plants, and in which 
so many rare specimens are cultivated with marked success, frequently blossoming 
before they fall into the possession of scarcely any other amateur, — it developed its 
showy flowers early in the month of June last. 
No other Thunbergia within the range of our knowledge is at all equal to the 
present in genuine beauty and sterling worth. Even T. grandiflora, although its 
flowers are likewise blue and somewhat larger, is deficient in habit, in the depth, 
intensity, and brilliancy of the hue of its blossoms, and in its remarkable infertility, 
the flowers being rarely produced in abundance, and occasionally not appearing 
throughout the whole season. Of T. Hawtayneana, on the contrary, a specimen 
of tolerable size blooms in unbounded profusion, and in this respect rivals the 
universally cultivated species T. alata. 
Dr. "W allien, superintendant of the Calcutta botanic garden, has sent plants of 
this species, which were collected in Nepal, to several British gardens ; and Messrs. 
Rollison of Tooting have had it in their possession for two or three years. Mrs. 
Lawrence's specimen is, however, the first, indeed we believe the only one, that 
ORDER. 
ANGIOSPERMIA. 
