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OF ORNAMENTAL EXOTIC PLANTS. 195 
extremely ornamental. Most of the species are natives of tropical America, and, of course, require a stove in 
Great Britain ; but others will live in a greenhouse, and some few are quite hardy. 
GENUS I. 
BIGNONIA Tourn. THE BIGNONIA. 
Lin. Syst. DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA. 
Corolla with a short tube, a campanulate throat, and a five-lobed limb. Stamens five, didynamous; 
Capsule silique-formed. Seeds transverse, compressed, winged on the margin. 
Generic Cuaracter.—Calyx five-toothed. 
lobes of the anthers divaricate. 
Description, &c.—This genus was named in honour of the Abbé Bignon, Librarian to Louis XIV. The 
plants included in it are generally climbing shrubs, furnished with tendrils, and having very ornamental flowers. 
Most of the species are stove shrubs, natives of tropical America and Madagascar. Modern botanists have 
separated some of the species and formed them into a new genus under the name of Tecoma, but as the difference 
between the two genera only consists in the position of the seeds in the seed-vessel, I have not thought it worth 
while in the present work to keep them distinct. Tecoma is altered from the Mexican name of one of the species. 
MRS. TELFAIR’S BIGNONIA. 
oblong, acuminate, shining. Flowers in lax terminal panicles. Silique 
cylindrical, acuminate, fleshy. Seeds broadly winged. 
1.—BIGNONIA TELFAIRLA Bojer. 
Eneravines.—Bot, Mag., t. 2976; and our fig. 4, in Pl. 39. 
Speciric Cuaracter.—Arboreous. Leaves opposite, pinnate, having 
from six to nine pairs of leaflets and one terminal one; leaflets ovate- 
Derscrietion, &c.—This very beautiful plant is a native of Madagascar, where it is cultivated to a great extent, 
not only for the beauty of its flowers, but for its fleshy seed-pod, which is much admired as an article of food. 
Though a native of the tropics, it only requires a greenhouse in this country, as it is found only in temperate 
mountainous regions. It was introduced in 1830. 
THE JASMINE-LIKE BIGNONIA. 
Sreciric Cuaracter.—Leaves pinnate, with two or three pairs of 
2.—BIGNONIA JASMINOIDES Cunn. 
Synonyme.—Tecoma jasminoides Lindl. 

Eneravincs.—Bot. Mag., t. 4004; Bot. Reg., t. 2002; Paxton’s 
Mag. of Bot., vol. vi, p. 199; and our jig. 3, in Pl. 39, under the 
name of Tecoma jasminoides. 
leaflets and a terminal one; leaflets ovate-lanceolate, glabrous, shining. 
Corolla campanulately funnel-shaped; limb flat; lobes nearly equal, 
undulate, crenate. 
Description, &c.—This very beautiful greenhouse climber is a native of Moreton Bay, on the north-east coast 
of New Holland, whence it was introduced in 18380. 
It bears its beautiful flowers in the month of August. 
B. Pandorea Vent., syn. Tecoma australis, is another very splendid species of this genus which only requires a 
greenhouse. 

CHAPTER XLVI. 
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SOLANACEA! Juss. 
EssentiaL Cuaracter.—Calyx usually five-cleft, permanent, in- 
ferior. 
and regular. 
Corolla monopetalous, hypogynous; limb usually five-cleft 
Stamens epipetalous, equal in number to the segments 
of the corolla and alternating with them. Ovarium from one to four- 
celled, many-seeded. Style one. Stigma obtuse, rarely lobed. Fruit 
a capsule or a berry. Seeds numerous, sessile. Albumen fleshy. 
Description, &c.—The genera in this order are very numerous, and generally speaking very ornamental. 
Many of them are annual plants, and some are quite hardy. 
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