Genus i. 



TRUMPET-CREEPER FAMILY. 



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inserted near the base of the corolla; anther-sacs glabrous, divergent. Capsule linear, flat- 

 tened parallel with the thin partition, septifragally dehiscent, the margins of the valves more 

 or less thickened. Seeds in 2 unequal rows on both margins of the partition, winged, much 

 broader than high, the wing entire, or erose at the end. [Greek, unequal-ranked.] 

 An apparently monotypic genus. Type species: Bignonia capreolata 1.. 



i. Anisostichus capreolata (L.) Bureau. 

 Tendrilled Trumpet-flower. Cross- 

 vine. Fig. 3883. 



? Bignonia crucigera L. Sp. PI. 624. 1753. 

 Bignonia capreolata L. loc. cit. 175.1. 

 Doxantha capreolata Miers. Proc. Roy. Hort. Soc. 3 : 



190. 1S63. 

 Anisostichus capreolata Bureau, Mon. Bigon. Atlas 8, 



pt. 6. 1864. 



A glabrous woody vine, often climbing to the 

 height of 40-6o, the stems sometimes 4' in diameter, 

 exhibiting a conspicuous cross in the transverse sec- 

 tion. Leaves petioled, commonly with small, simple, 

 stipule-like ones in their axils, 2- foliolate, terminated 

 by a branched tendril ; leaflets stalked, oblong or 

 ovate, entire, acute or acuminate at the apex, cordate 

 at the base, pinnately veined, s'-j' long ; cymes nu- 

 merous, short-peduncled, 2-5-flowered ; pedicels i'-2 

 long; calyx membranous; corolla 2' long, orange and 

 puberulent without, yellow within ; capsule $'-7' long, 

 8"-io" broad, very flat, each valve longitudinally 

 i-nerved; seeds broadly winged laterally, narrowly 

 winged above and below, l broad. 



In moist woods, Virginia to Florida, Louisiana, Ohio 

 and southern Illinois. Quarter vine. April-June. 



2. BIGNONIA L. Sp. PL 633. 1753. 



Climbing woody vines with aerial rootlets, with opposite pinnately compound leaves, and 

 large showy red or orange flowers, in terminal corymbs. Calyx tubular-campanulate, some- 

 what unequally 5-toothed. Corolla-tube elongated, enlarged above the calyx, narrowly cam- 

 panulate, the limb slightly 2-lipped, 5-lobed, the lobes spreading. Anther-bearing stamens 4, 

 didynamous, ascending under the upper lip ; anther-sacs divergent, glabrous or slightly pubes- 

 cent. Capsule elongated, slightly compressed at right angles to the partition, loculicidally and 

 septicidally dehiscent. Seeds in several rows on each side of the margins of the partition, 

 flat, winged, the wing translucent. [Named after the Abbe Bignon, 1662-1743, librarian to 

 to Louis XV.] 



Two known species, the following typical one, the other Japanese. The name Tecoma, used 

 for this vine in our first edition, belongs properly to a genus of pinnate-leaved yellow-flowered 

 shrubs of tropical America, typified by Tecoma stans (L.) H.B.K. 



1. Bignonia radicans L. Trumpet-flower. 

 Trumpet-creeper. Foxglove. Fig. 3884. 



Bignonia radicans L. Sp. PI. 624. 1753. 

 Tecoma radicans DC. Prodr. 9: 223. 1845. 

 Campsis radicans Seem. Journ. Bot. 5: 362. 1867. 



A woody vine, climbing to the height of 20-40 

 or prostrate if meeting no support. Leaves petioled, 

 odd-pinnate, not tendril-bearing, 8'-l5' long; leaflets 

 7-1 1, ovate to lanceolate, short-stalked, sharply ser- 

 rate, reticulate-veined, glabrous, or pubescent on the 

 veins beneath, acute or acuminate at the apex, nar- 

 rowed at the base, I J' 3' long; flowers corymbose, 

 short-pedicelled ; corymbs 2-9-flowered ; calyx coria- 

 ceous, about 1' long; corolla scarlet, 2Y long, the 

 tube veined within, 3 times as long as the limb, an- 

 ther-sacs glabrous ; stigma spatulate ; capsule stalked, 

 4'-6' long, 10" in diameter, narrowed at both ends, 

 little flattened, ridged above and below by the mar- 

 gins of the valves ; seeds in several rows on each 

 surface of the broad partition, broadly winged lat- 

 erally, the wing eroded. 



In moist woods and thickets, southern New Jersey and 

 Pennsylvania to Florida and Texas, north to Illinois 

 and Iowa. Escaped from cultivation further north. 

 Trumpet-vine. Trumpet-ash. Cow-itch. Cross-vine. Aug.-Sept. 



