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BIGNONIA pallida. 
Pale-flowered Bignonia. 
DIDYNAMIA AR rote hatha: 
Nat. ord. BIGNONIACER. 
BIGNONIA. Supra, vol. 3. fol. 249. 
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B. pallida; foliis oppositis unifoliolatis oblongis obtusis basi sub-cordatis, 
floribus axillaribus subsolitariis, pedicellis calycibusque lepidotis. 
Frutex? in caldrio 6-pedalis, erectus. Rami teretes, apice compresst, 
olivacet, squamis minutis albidis versis apices ramorum confertis atro-brun- 
neis lepidoti. Folia opposita, untfoliolata, patentia; petioli longi, albo- 
virides, teretes, cum foliolis articulati, oblongis, bast sub-cordatis, apice 
paululum acuminatis, obtusis tamen, planis, glabris, atro-viridibus, costdé 
distinctd, pallidd, subtis reticulates, sqyuamis paucis raris precipue secus 
costam lepidotis. Flores subsolitarii, cernui, axillares, pedicellis lepidotis. 
Calyx elongatus, turbinatus, ut pedicellus squamis plurimis minutis fuscis 
lepidotus, apice irregulariter disruptus. Corolla 2 uncias longa, infundibu- 
laris ; tubo lutescente pauld incurvo, subtis concavo; palato hirsuto elevato ; 
limbo delicato, corrugato, pallide lilacino, diametro 14-unciali ; labium supe- 
rius bilobum, inferius majus 3-partitum: lobis omnibus crenatis ciliatis ; 
inferioribus per axin lilacino lineatis. Stamina tubo multd breviora, versus 
basin inserta; rudimentum subulatum, bast hirsutum. Filamenta glabra ; 
antheree glabre, lobis divaricatis. é 
This undescribed species of Bignonia was sent to the 
Horticultural Society, from the Botanic Garden at St. 
Vincent’s, in 1823, by Mr. George Caley. It grows freely 
in the stove, where it produces its delicate fugacious 
flowers in July. Wa halted Re 
In the stove, 6 feet high, erect. Branches round, com- 
pressed at the end, like the common ash, olive-green, 
covered over with minute, whitish scales, which, at the end 
