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284 "BIGNONIACEJE. (BIGNONIA FAMILY.) 
palate hairy. — Stemless herbs. Leaves all radical, clustered, entire, with the 
margins commonly involute. Scape naked, commonly viscid. ES 
* Flowers yellow. x. 
1. P. lutea, Walt. Clammy-pubescent; leaves oblong-obovate ; corolla e 
large, with the rounded lobes 2- 4-cleft; spur subulate.— Open flat pine bar- — — 
rens, common. Feb.- April. — Plant yellowish. Scape 6/~12/ high. Corolla 
1/-13' wide, nodding. ^ 
* * Flowers purple, often changing to white. aii aie 
2. P. elatior, Michx. Leaves clammy-pubescent, spatulate-ovate; seape$ —— 
villous near the base ; lobes of the corolla 2-cleft, rounded ; spur obtuse. — Mar em 
gins of ponds, Florida to North Carolina. March and April. — Scapes 8! - 12! 
high. Corolla 1! wide. , 
3. P. australis, Nutt. Smoothish; leaves lanceolate or oblong, flat; 0 — 
rolla 5-parted, the wedge-obovate lobes 2-cleft, acutish ; spur sac-like, obtuse. — 
Shallow ponds, West Florida, near the coast. March. — Scapes 1° high. Co 
rolla 1’ wide. 
4. P. pumila, Michx. Clammy-pubescent ; leaves roundish or obovate; 
lobes of the corolla obcordate; spur somewhat sac-like, obtuse. — Low sandy 
pine barrens, Georgia, Florida, and westward. March and April.— Scape ae a 
6' high. Corolla 1 - $' wide. E es 
ORDER 89. BIGNONIACEUJE. (Broewowr Fawn) 
Herbs, shrubs, or trees, with simple or compound leaves, and regular of 
somewhat irregular showy flowers. — Calyx 2-lipped, 5-lobed, or truncate 
and entire. Corolla tubular or bell-shaped, mostly 2-lipped. Fertile st 
mens 2, or 4 and didynamous, inserted on the corolla : anther-cells divers” 
ing. Ovary 2-celled, many-ovuled ; the base surrounded with a e 
disk. Style filiform: stigma 2-lipped. Capsule 2-valved, 2- or 
many-seeded. Embryo flat. Albumen none. : 
; Synopsis. Eus sdb 
SuaonpER I. -BIGNONIEJE. Trees, shrubs, or woody vines. : SA 
sule 2-celled, the valves separating from the partition. Seeds flat, wng” 
. Cotyledons notched at each end. — Leaves opposite. - $i 
.. 1 BIGNONIA. Valves of the capsule parallel with the partition. Leaves compound: — A 
2. TECOMA. Valves of the capsule contrary to the partition. Leaves compound. 
9. CATALPA. Valves of the 
