He had in this way, I afterwards learnt, gathered some of the richest flowers of the bignonia scarlatina, as well as such fruits as had tempted him by their luscious appearance, and at the same time frightening all the birds from their nests, which he commonly destroyed: and although some of his attendants were occasionally much hurt and bruised in this singular amusement, he still persevered in it.

A double blue pea {74} and a purple Bignonia are scrambling over shrubs and walls.

We distinguished in these festoons a Bignonia of a violet blue, the purple Dolichos, and, for the first time, that magnificent Solandra, the orange flower of which has a fleshy tube more than four inches long.

The flax of our country has ten filaments, and but five of them are terminated with anthers; the Portugal flax has ten perfect males, or stamens; the Verbena of our country has four males; that of Sweden has but two; the genus Albuca, the Bignonia Catalpa, Gratiola, and hemlock-leaved Geranium have only half their filaments crowned with anthers.

The cross-vine (Bignonia), less freehanded, hung its showy bells out of reach in the treetops.

BIGNONIA CAPREOLATAVirginia and other parts of America, 1710.

TECOMA GRANDIFLORA (syn Bignonia grandiflora), from China and Japan (1800), is not so hardy as T. radicans, although in certain maritime districts it succeeds fairly well.

T. RADICANS (syn Bignonia radicans).Trumpet Flower.

Already I observed the predominance of luxuriant vines, indicating our nearness to the tropic, wreathed gayly over the tall and branchless trunks of the trees: some, like the Bignonia, in a full blaze of crimson; others, like the Climbing Fern, draping the trees in continual verdure.

Bignonia (Trumpet Flower).This is admirably suitable for a south wall, but it requires plenty of room.

râtu[.n]; (5) the female buffalomahishî, pâdâ; (6) 70 poles; (7) 7,200,000 common years; (8) the Pâ[t.]ala or Bignonia suaveolens; (9) Kumâra and Cha[n.][d.]â (Dig.

The Pátala or trumpet-flower; Bignonia suaveolens.

The wide garden porch, into which double doors opened from the summer-room where they were married, showed these, among the grass-walks of the shady, secluded place, through its own splendid vista of trumpet-hung bignonia vines.

The TRUMPET FLOWER, Bignonia, are an eminently handsome family, chiefly considered stove plants in Europe, but here growing freely in the open ground, and flowering in loose spikes.

CHICA, an orange-red colouring matter obtained from boiling the leaves of the Bignonia chica, and used as a dye.

486 Bignonia Catalpa Common Catalpa c.m. 487 radicans