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apice incurva, fancem attingentia, breviora 7 lin. long., inclusa, 
sterile 6 lin. long., graeile ; stylus glaber, longitudine tubi co- 
rollae ; ovarium fusiformi-oblongum, 4-sulcatum, glabrum, disco 
carnoso solide cylindrico plurisulcato insituin, 2-loculare ; ovula 
pluriseriata, versus exti’emos margines dissepiment! affixa*. 
4. Tanaecium crucigerum, Seem, Bonplandia, iv. 27 ; Hook. Kew 
Journ. ix. 83; Linn. Trans, xxiii. 15; — Bignonia crucigera, 
Linn. Sp. 869 ; DC. loc. cit. p. 152 ; Plum. PL Amer. i. 48, 
tab. 58; — scandens, ramis teretibus, ad nodos dilatatis, lenti- 
cellis globosis tuberculatis ; foliis inferioribus 3-foliolatis, su- 
perioribus conjugato-cirrhosis, foliolis oblongo-ovatis, acumine 
brevi acuto, imo obtusis, breviter cordatis et 3-nerviis, supra 
nitidis, subtus ochraceo-velutinis, nervis ramosis venisque 
transversis reticulatis nitidis prominentibus ; petiolo longius- 
culo, petiolulis subbrevibus ; paniculis geminis, terminalibus ; 
ramis paucis, oppositis, 3-iloris, aut abortu 1-floris; calyce 
tubuloso, margine integro 5-denticulato ; corolla extus velu- 
tina (in sicco ochracea), intus glabra, genitalibus faucem 
attingentibus. — In Antillis : v. s. in herb. Hook., Domenica 
(Imray), St. Vincent (Guilding). 
Species a prsecedentibus valde distincta. Foliola 5 poll, long., 
3 poll. lat. ; petiolus 2^ poll., petiolulique crassiusculi, 6 lin. 
long. ; cirrhus simplex, 5-6 poll. long. ; paniculse geminae, gla- 
bi-ae, terminales, floribus exclusis 2 poll. long. ; rami bijugi 
cum impari, singuli 3-flori, aut abortu 1-flori, pedunculorum 
articulationibus sursum gradatim dilatatis et compressis, nitidi 
et striatelli ; pedicelli 3-4 lin. long. ; calyx 6 lin. long., 3 lin. 
diam.; corollse tubus 6^ poll, long., pro majore parte ad diam. 
2-3 lin. constrictus, debinc sensim ampliatus, fauce 1 poll, diam., 
limbi lobi 9 lin. long., obtuse 3-angulares, 2 superiores erec- 
tiores, 3 alteri reflexi; insertio staminum 1 poll, infra faucem, 
lilamenta subulata, in paribus, summo incurva, 2 longiora fau- 
cem attingentia, 2 altera paulo breviora, inter istas sterile dimi- 
dio curtius, rectum, anantherum; antlierae per paria approxi- 
matae, lobi lineares, obtusi, segregati, divaricatissimi, connectivo 
apical! obtuso breviter excurrente; ovarium conico-oblongum, 
glabrum, disco latiusculo carnoso impositum ; stylus subtenuis, 
5 poll. long. ; stigmatis lamellae cuneato-oblongae, rotundatae, 
3 lin. long., glabrae; fructus vix notus, oblongus, verisimiliter 
ei T. albiflom consimilis, ut dixit cl. Plum. [loc. cit.), “ capsulam 
vulgi repraesentat, quam Tobacco replent, secumque portant.” 
With this will cease, for the present, my communications on 
the Bignoniacea, as I learn from Dr. Seemann that he has re- 
• This species is represented in Plate 60. 
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