Delostoma
(from delos, manifest, and stoma, a mouth; in allusion to the wide mouth of the flower). ORD. Bignoniaceae. A small genus, containing three or four species, all natives of Columbia and Peru. The one described below is a handsome, robust-growing stove tree. For culture, see Bignonia. D. dentatum (tooth-leaved). fl. bluish-white, large; corolla sub-campanulate, having a limb nearly 2in. across, of spreading orbicular lobes; racemes erect, three or four-flowered. October. l. elliptic-oblong, toothed, downy beneath. Peru.