P L A T E CCCCXCIIl.
B I G N O N I A GRANDIFLORA.
Large-Lowered Bignonia.
CLASS XIV. ORDER IL
DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSFERMIA. Two Chives longer. Seeds covered.
ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER,
EMPALEMENT 5-cleft, cup-shaped.
BLOSSOM bell-shaped at the mouth, S-cleft, and
bellied beneath. A pod of two cells.
SEEDS winged, with a skinny membrane.
See Bignonia Leucoxylon, PL XLI I I. Vol. I.
CALYX 5-fidus, cyatliiformis.
COROLLA fauce campanulata, 5-fida, subtus
ventricosa. Siliqua bilocularis.
SEMINA membranacea, alata.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
BIGNONIA foliis pinnatis : foliolis oblongo-lanceolatis,
serratis : floribus in paniculo terminali,
vel potius in racemo e pedunculis
trifloris, oppositis, alternatis : corollis maguis,
coccineis, campanulatis : caule erecto,
radicante, et scandente.
BIGNONIA with winged leaves: leaflets of an
oblong lance-shape, and sawed: flowers
grow in a terminating panicle, or rather in
a raceme upon footstalks with three flowers,
opposite and alternate : blossom large, of a
scarlet colour, and bell-shaped : stem upright,
rooting, and climbing.
REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.
1. The empalement.
2. A blossom spread open.
3 . Seed-bud and pointal.
THIS superb Bignonia is well characterized by the specific appellation of grandiflora J and althouoh,
in several genera, this title has been rendered nugatory by the introduction afterwards of still larger
flowering species, yet we think it is not likely to be the case in the present instance. In Keempfer^s
Icones there is a tolerably good figure of this fine plant. It flowers in the autumn, and great hopes
are entertained that it will ultimately prove to be of a hardy character, when a fair trial of it is made,
which its scarcity has hitlierto prevented.
Our figure was made from a plant seven feet high, in the conservatory of G. Hibbert, esq. where,
under the care of Mr. Knight, his botanic gardener, that valuable collection is in the most luxuriant,
state of cultivation.