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BIGNONIA CAPREOLATA. 
(tendrilled trumpet-flower.) 
CLASS. ORDER. 
DIDYNAMIA. ANGIOSPERM1A. 
NATURAL ORDER. 
BIGNONIACEiE. 
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, 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.- — Don’s Gard. and Botany. 
Specific Character. — Plant a shrub. Stems climbing. Leaves conjugate ; leaflets cordately-oblong, 
lower ones simple. Tendrils small, three-parted. Peduncles axillary, one-flowered, numerous. 
Calyx entire. Corolla reddish yellow. 
Among the various species of climbing plants, there are not a few which, by 
inappropriate management, or by being placed in uncongenial circumstances, are 
rendered nearly useless for the purposes of ornament ; and since the entire number 
of plants possessing a climbing habit is insufficient for the wants of the cultivator, 
and might be augmented with great advantage, it becomes a matter of consider- 
able interest to bring those which are really valuable into a proper condition. 
The beautiful climber of which we now present a figure is of the class to which 
we have just alluded. Being regarded as a hardy species, (and, to some extent, 
very correctly so,) as well as treated in the manner usually adopted for cultivating 
plants of that description, it is, when so tended, never brought to a free flowering 
state, and is consequently thrown out of most gardens as a worthless incumbrance, 
or merely allowed a place on a wall that is wished to be hidden, and where flowers 
are little desired. 
We happened lately to meet with it in the collection of W. Leaf, Esq., 
Streatham, where it is grown as a conservatory climber, and where the gardener, 
Mr. Dodemeade, by refraining from the use of the pruning-knife, and permitting 
