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P L A T E LXXXVI.
B I G N O N I A PANDORANA.
Norfolk IJland Trumpet Flower.
C L A S S XIV. ORDER IL
DIDYNAM I A JNGIOSPERMI A. Tw o Chives longer. Seeds covered.
ESSENTIAL GENEKIC CHAEACTEK.
C A L Y X quiiiquefidus, cyathiformis.
C O R O L L A fauce campanulata, quinquefida, fubtus
ventricofa. Siliqua bilocularis. Semina
membranaceo-alata.
EMPALEMENT, five-cleft, cup-fliaped.
BLOSSOM bell-iliaped at the mouth, five-cleft, and
bellied beneath. A pod of two cells. Seed
winged with a Ikinny membrane.
SeePl.XLIII. Bignonia Leucoxylon. Vol. I.
SPECIFIC CHABACTER.
Bignonia foliis pinnatis; foliolis lanceolatis,
dentatis; caule volubili; floribus racemofis,
terminalibus.
Trumpet Flower with winged leaves; the fmall
leaves are lance-ftiaped, and toothed; a
climbing ftem; the flowers grow in bunches,
and terminate the branches.
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KEFERENCE TO THE PLATE.
1. The Empalement.
2. A Flower cut open, to expofe the fituation of the Chives.
3. The Pointal, and Seed-bud, (magnified).
4. A Seed.
T H I S fpecies of Tr^tmpet Flower, is a native of Norfolk Ifland in the Pacific Ocean, lymg tn 20 deg.
2 min. fouth lat.; therefore, muft be kept with us as a greenhoufe plant; and, as a creeper may be
placed to twine round the pillars, or to cover trelUs work; being of qmck growth (.f planted ,n pe t
L r t h ) and flowering abundantly from the month of March, 'till June. t .s eafily mcreafed by ut^
i n t made in the f;ring, or by fuckers, which it frequently produces from the roo . The plant
from which our drawing was made, flowered (and we believe for the firft time m England) m 1798,
in thecolleaion of J.Vere, Efq. Kenfington Gore. , , . • . ,,
Naturaliils, when in detailing the hiftory of the various articles paflmg under the.r rev.ew fl.ould
r e c e i l with ;aution, any matter which feems tending to the ma, vellous; but for the authe^c. y o
the authority, from whence we are furnilhed with the account of the fingularly peftifetous charafte. of
his plant can w i t h confidence pledge ourfelves. Colonel Paterfon, now command.ng ^ Port
iackfon New Holland, fent the feeds from Norfolk Ifland, when he was flat,oned there, to Mellrs.
Lee nd Kennedy Hammerfmith, who firft raifed it, in the year 1793. The N. I Trumpet F o ^ r
i in its native f L , a deciduous plant; upon the return of the feafon, m wh.eh the young tend. 1
b gin to flroot, and the leave, begin to appear; within fifteen, or twenty days, the whole
p i n t is entirely covered with a white downy infed, of the genus Aph.s, fomethurg Im.lar to our
S " h t ; which,'n a very fliort time from their firft appearance on thrs plant become lo complete y
d i f f e r e d over every vegetable produaion, that fcarce a green leaf .s to be een through the whole
extent of the ifland. So great a plague was this infed thought to be, from .ts effeas on vegetat p
by thofe who were fent to colonize tlie illand, that it was confidered as one of the pr.ncpal reafon.
for abandoning the fettlement.
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