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nated, lance-lhape and ovate leaves; and all the {pe¬ 
des produce clutters of bell-lhape, long tubulous, and 
trumpet-lhape flowers; fome beautifully ornamental, 
formed of one long tubulous fwelling petal, five-part¬ 
ed at top, and fucceeded by bivalvous pods, contain¬ 
ing many feeds; by which the fpecies may be propa¬ 
gated, alfo by layers and cuttings. 
CharaSlers.— Flowers hermaphrodite; thecal'yx cup- 
fhaped, one-leaved, quinquefid or five-parted; co¬ 
rolla or flower, ringer.* or grinning, long tubulous, 
bell-lhape, five-parted at top, the two upper parts re¬ 
flexed, the others fpreading. Stamina, four awl-lhape 
filaments, two longer than the others; and crowned 
with reflexed anthera. Piftillum, an oblong germen, 
flender ftyle, having a round) Ih lligma; and the ger¬ 
men grows a bilvalvous pod, filled with comprelfed, 
winged feeds, placed imbricatim. 
The Species of BIGNONIA are, 
1. Big HON I a Catalpa —( Catalpa ) or Tree Bignonia. 
A deciduous tree of moderate growth, twenty-five 
to thirty feet high; ftem ered, branchy upward—the 
leaves (very large, light-green) fimple,. heart-lhape, 
by threes and oppofite; and large panicles of whitilh 
flowers, having but two ftamina or anthera.—Native 
of Carolina and Japan. (Moiji, warm foil , or any 
common.) 
2 . Bignonia radio arts, Radicant, or rooting-ftalked 
climbing Bignonia, or Scarlet Trumpet Flower. 
A climbing, deciduous flirub, afeending thirty or 
forty feet high; the ftem and branches climbing, 
rooting at the joints—leaves (large, dark-green) pin¬ 
nated or winged, of many pair of folioles or leaflets, 
deeply cut at the edges; and large bunches of long 
tubulous, reddilh and fcarlet flowers, moll beautiful. 
-—Native of America. ( Dry ftuation.) 
Varieties. —Greater Trumpet Flower. 
Minor, or fmaller Trumpet Flower. 
3. Bignonia unguis cati, (Cat-claw tendrilled) or 
Four-leaved climbing Bignonia. 
A climbing, Ihrubby plant, mounting twenty to 
thirty feet high.—the leaves (largijh) conjugated, or 
by twe pairs together, oppofite, with cirrhi or ten¬ 
drils, Ihort, arched or hooked, and three-parted; and 
bunches of yellow flowers.—Native of Barbadoes, 
Domingo, &c. (Warm, dry Jituations.) 
4. Bignonia femper-virens, Ever-greenclimbing Big¬ 
nonia. 
Evergreen climbing fhrub, afeending thirty feet 
high; the ftem volubilate or twining, climbing—the 
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leaves fimple, (middling Jize) fpear-lhape, oppofite; 
and odorous yellow flowers.—-Native of Virginia.. 
(Warm ftuation.) 
Thefe four fpecies of hardy tree and (hrub Bignonia, 
are defirable furniture for the lhrubbery and other de¬ 
corative plantations; the fir ft of which, Catalpa, to 
introduce as a beautiful, upright ftandard tree, adorn¬ 
ed with Angularly, large elegant leaves, and large 
branching clufters of dingy-white flowers; the other 
three fpecies being all climbers, are eligible to plant 
as fuch, in any principal compartments, and againft 
walls, buildings, ftems of trees, arbours, and other 
fupport, by which they will afeend many feet high ; 
fome climbing by their tendrils, others by their twin¬ 
ing ftems, and the Bignonia radicans alfo by its radi¬ 
cant or rooting ftems, emitting roots into the walls, 
ftems of trees, or any adjacent fupport, thereby 
mounting to a lofty growth; and is tery ornamental 
in its trumpet-lhape, beautiful, fcarlet flowers in fum- 
mer. 
In their temperature flf Jfppwth, the firft and fecond 
fpecies are very hardy to lucceed in any common foil 
and fituation, the others are more tender, and in this 
country, demand a fomewhat Iheltered, warm com¬ 
partment in the fun. 
For principal lhrubbery plantations, never omithav- 
ing fome of the Bignonia Catalpa,. as a moft elegant 
ftandard tree, cloathed with noble, beautiful leaves in 
fummer, and is proper to occupy the molt confpicuous 
fituations; and the climhing forts are proper to admit 
in particular compartments, and will effeft an agree¬ 
able variety in their afeending growth; and of which 
the Radicant Bignonia is a very beautiful flowering- 
climber, which, and the other climbing kinds, lhould 
either be planted againft fome fupport, or have ftakes 
to afeend upon, or planted agaznft walis, buildings, 
ftems of trees, &c. 
All the forts are cultivated in the nurferies, where 
they may be had in autumn or fpring, for planting. 
They are propagated by feeds, moftly obtained 
from America, &c. by the feedfmen in the fpring; 
and are alfo raifed from cuttings and layers of the 
young wood: fow the feed in the fpring, either in a 
bed, or pots of light earth, in a warm fituation, or 
fome in pots, placed in a hot-bed or moderate bark- 
bed, to forward the germination of the feed, having 
moftly the free air, and the plants, when up, fully 
expofed, by degrees, all fummer, giving them occa- 
fional Ihelter the firft year or two, in winter from froft ; 
and afterwards in the fpring, planted into the nurfery 
in a warm compartment: cuttings of the Catalpa, 
young fhoots, may be planted in the fpring months; 
and if fome are alfo planted in pots, and aflifted in a 
bark or other hot-bed, they will root more expediti- 
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