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2. TECOMA Juss. Gen. 139. 1789. 



Shrubs or trees, with opposite, pinnate or rarely simple leaves, and large 

 flowers racemose or panicled at the ends of the branches. Calyx tubular- 

 campanulate, 5-toothed. Corolla funnelform-campanulate, the limb slightly 

 2-lipped. 5-lobed, the lobes nearly equal. Stamens 4, didynamous. Ovary 

 sessile or nearly sessile ; ovules mostly in one series on the placentae. Capsule 

 linear, loculicidally dehiscent, many-seeded, the seeds winged. [From the 

 Aztec name Tecomaxochitl.] About 10 species, natives of tropical and warm- 

 temperate America, the following typical. 



1. Tecoma stans (L.) H.B.K. Xov. Gen. 3: 144. 1818. 



Bignonia stans L. Sp. PI. ed. 2, 871. 1763. 

 Stenolobium stans Seem. Jouru. Bot. 1 : 88. 1863. 



A shrub, or small tree up to about 8 m. high, glabrous throughout. Leaves 

 1-3 dm. long, petioled ; leaflets 5-13, lanceolate, oblong-lanceolate or elliptic, 

 short-stalked, serrate, acute or acuminate at the apex, mostly narrowed at the 

 base; racemes several many -flowered ; pedicels slender, 1 cm. long or less; 

 calyx 3-5 mm. long, its teeth triangular-ovate, acute ; corolla bright yellow, 

 3.5-5 cm. long, the cylindric part of its tube about twice as long as the calyx, 

 its lobes broad; capsule 1-2 dm. long, 5-6 mm. in diameter, beaked. 



Waste places, scrub-lands and borders of coppices, New Providence, Cat Island, 

 Watling's Island, Grand Turk and Inagua : Florida ; continental tropical America 

 and the West Indies. TRUMPET-FLOWER. YELLOW ELDER. 



3. MACROCATALPA Britton, Journ. X. Y. Bot, Gard. 19: 8. 1918. 

 [CATALPA, sect. Macrocatalpa Griseb. Cat. PI. Cub. 191. 1866.] 



Trees, with opposite or verticillate, simple, ovate to oblong-lanceolate, 

 slender-petioled entire leaves, and medium-sized flowers panicled at the ends 

 of the branches. Calyx closed in bud, 2-cleft at anthesis. Corolla mem- 

 branous, obliquely campanulate, the short tube much expanded above, the 

 limb 2-lipped, 5-lobed, the lobes broad, obtuee, undulate. Stamens 2, in- 

 cluded, the filaments slender, the anthers glabrous; staminodia 3, small. Ovary 

 sessile ; style filiform ; stigma 2-lamellate ; ovules in several series. Capsule 

 linear, very long, subterete. Seeds compressed, linear, long-pilose. [Greek, 

 great Catalpa.] Two or three species, natives of the West Indies, the follow- 

 ing typical. 



1. Macrocatalpa punctata (Griseb.) Britton, Journ. N. Y. Bot. Gard. 19: 8. 

 1918. 



(^)Echites macrocarpa A. Kich. in Sagra, Hist. Cub. 11: 94. 1850. 

 Catalpa punctata Griseb. Cat. PI. Cub. 192. 1866. 



A tree, sometimes 10 m. high, the branches spreading, the young shoots 

 puberulent. Leaves opposite or some of them verticillate in 3 's, oblong to 

 elliptic, subcoriaceous, 5-7 cm. long, obtuse, rounded, or acutish at the apex, 

 mostly rounded at the base, finely reticulate-veined beneath and lepidote- 

 puncticulate when young, dull and glabrous above, the petioles 1-3 cm. long, 

 puberulent when young; panicles few-several-flowered, slender-peduncled; 

 pedicels very slender, 8-20 mm. long; calyx-lobes lepidote, obtuse, about 7 mm. 

 long ; corolla light yellow with orange and brown bands in the throat, 1.2-2 cm. 

 long; capsule 3-4 dm. long. 



Coppices, Andros : Cuba. CUBAN CATALPA. 



