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TECOMA capensis. 
Cape Bignonia. 
a 
DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA. 
Nat. ord. BIGNONIACEZ. hs 
TECOMA Juss. Calyx campanulatus 5-dentatus, Corolla tubo brevi; 
fauce campanulata; limbo quinquelobo bilabiato. Stamina quatuor didy- 
nama, cum rudimento quinti. Stigma bilamellatum. Capsula siliquee- 
formis bilocularis; dissepimentum valvyis contrarium. Semina biseriata, 
imbricata, alata, transversa. Arbores aut rariits frutices. Folia oppo- 
sita digitata aut sepius imparipinnata, Flores terminales paniculati flav 
v. incarnati. Kunth. synopsis 2. 244. 
T. capensis; foliis imparipinnatis quadrijugis: foliolis ovatis serratis glabris, 
axillis yenarum subtus barbatis, racemis pedunculatis. 
‘Bignonia capensis. Hort. Reg. Kewensis. 
Rami teretes, glabri. Folia wnpartpinnata, sub-4-juga; foliolis ovatis, 
grosse serratis, basi cuneatis integris, glabris, axillis venarum subtis fasciculis 
pilorum barbatis; petiolus subalatus. Flores densé racemosi, in longo 
pedunculo insidentes. . Pedicelli filiformes, bractets longiores. Calyx brevis, 
campanulatus, subtruncatus, 5-dentatus, dentibus inferioribus obsoletis. Co- 
rolla aurantiaco-coccinea, fere duas uncias longa, tubo longo, arcuato, bast 
intiis villoso ; limbo patente, obliquo, 4-partito, lacintis subequalzbus obtusis, 
superiore emarginatd ; fauce venosd. Filamenta corollé longzora, basi pilosa. 
Anthere basi divaricate, glabriuscule. Stylus filiformis, glaber. Stigma 
bibamellatum. Capsula siliqueformis, bilocularis, dissepimento valvis con- 
trario, seminibus alatis. 
For the accompanying drawing of this noble species 
we are indebted to William Townsend Aiton, Esq. by 
whom it was communicated from His Majesty’s Gardens 
at Kew, last September. It is a native of the Cape of 
Good Hope, whence seeds were sent to Kew by Mr. 
Bowie in 1823. A hardy greenhouse plant of great beauty. 
It grows freely in light rich soil, and cuttings root readily 
under a hand-glass. 
Branches climbing, round, smooth. eaves unequally 
pinnated, toothed, of about four pair ; leaflets ovate, coarsely 
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