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The botanist's repository for new and rare plants; vol. 08 [of 10]Andrews, Henry Cranke, active 1799-1828

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The botanist's repository for new and rare plants; vol. 08 [of 10]

Name: The botanist's repository for new and rare plants; vol. 08 [of 10]
Author: Andrews, Henry Cranke, active 1799-1828

Andrews, Henry Cranke, active 1799-1828

Plants -- Pictorial works; Plants, Cultivated -- Pictorial works; Rare plants -- Pictorial works

_Vol. VIII.
                                of the_

                         Botanists Repository

                             _Comprising,
                         Colour’d Engravings_

                                  of

                         _New and Rare Plants_

                                 ONLY

                   with Botanical Descriptions _&c._

                                  _in
                          Latin and English,
                              after the_

                            Linnæan System.

                                  _by
                              H. Andrews
                    Botanical Painter Engraver &c._

                            [Illustration]

                         Mo. Botanical Garden

PLATE CCCCXCIII.

BIGNONIA GRANDIFLORA.

_Large-lowered Bignonia._

CLASS XIV. ORDER II.

_DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA._ Two Chives longer. Seeds covered.

ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER.

     CALYX 5-fidus, cyathiformis.

     COROLLA fauce campanulata, 5-fida, subtus ventricosa. Siliqua
     bilocularis.

     SEMINA membranacea, alata.

     EMPALEMENT 5-cleft, cup-shaped.

     BLOSSOM bell-shaped at the mouth, 5-cleft, and bellied beneath. A
     pod of two cells.

     SEEDS winged, with a skinny membrane.

     See Bignonia Leucoxylon, Pl. XLIII. Vol. I.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

     BIGNONIA foliis pinnatis: foliolis oblongo-lanceolatis, serratis:
     floribus in paniculo terminali, vel potius in racemo e pedunculis
     trifloris, oppositis, alternatis: corollis magnis, 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; and although, 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 Kæmpfer’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, with its scarcity has hitherto
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.

[Illustration]

PLATE CCCCXCIV.

SCUTELLARIA SERRATA.

_Sawed-leaved Scutellaria._

CLASS XIV. ORDER I.

_DIDYNAMIA GYMNOSPERMIA._ Two Chives longer. Seeds naked.

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