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TECOMA JASMINOIDES. 
(jASMINE-LIKE TECOMA.) 
CLASS. ORDER. 
D1DYNAMIA. A NGIO SPE R M I A . 
NATURAL ORDER,. 
BIGNONLACEiE. 
Generic Character. — Calyx campanulate, five-toothed. Corolla with a short tube; throat campanulate, 
limb five-lobed, each two-lipped. Stamens four, didynamous, with the rudiment of a fifth. Stigma 
two-plated. Capsule pod-shaped, two-celled ; partition opposite to the valves. Seeds imbricated, 
winged, disposed transversely. 
Specific Character — Plant a climbing shrub. Branches terete, glabrous, green. Leaves pinnate, 
with two pairs of leaflets ; leaflets ovate, smooth, shining, bluntly acuminated. Calyx crenately 
five-toothed. Panicles terminal, trichotomous. Corolla funnel-shaped, downy, and slightly 
bearded in the throat ; limb nearly equally divided into five jagged, undulated segments. 
For specimens of this strikingly beautiful Tecoma we have to thank Mr, 
Webster, gardener to Mrs. Husk is son, of Eartham, Petworth, Sussex, by whom 
they were communicated in August 1838. He informs us that it was raised from 
seeds sent thither from Moreton Bay, in New South Wales, and had flowered in 
the conservatory at Eartham for two years. On first examining it, an impression 
arose in our mind that it might at least be considered a new variety of T. jasmi- 
noides, the flowers being so much finer, and of a far richer colour than those of the 
plants of that species we had previously seen* Subsequent investigation has, 
however, shown beyond a doubt that it is only T.jasminoides in a superior state of 
cultivation, and perhaps the species may naturally be inclined to vary its hue. 
It is quite impossible that the enchanting delicacy and loveliness of its blossoms 
can fail to arrest the attention of every observer. They combine a degree of 
elegance so truly fascinating, with such a depth and brightness of colour in the throat, 
(neither of which can be fully portrayed by art) that the beholder is conscious only 
of admiration and delight. Our drawing is doubtless sufficiently correct to create 
these feelings, though necessarily to a much less extent than its beauteous original, 
Besides the pleasing character of the flowers, the plant itself is a very handsome 
