Catalpa. BIGNONIACE.E. 319 



* * Leaves simple and entire : erect trees or shrubs : calyx closed in the bud, bilabiately 

 or irregularly diviiling- or bursting: in authesis : corolla-lobes undulate-crisped, liardly 

 unequal: anthers glabrous; the cells narrow, divaricate: hypogynous disk obsolete: 

 ca]isulc long-linear, loculicidal, terete; valves contrary to the i)artition : seeds narrow, 

 in 2 or more series on each side of partition ; lateral wings dissected into copious long 

 hairs. 



3. CATALPA. Corolla ventricose-ami)liate above, somewhat oblique, bilabiate-5-lobed. 

 Antheriferous stamens 2, anterior, with filaments arcuate, and rudimentary filaments 

 {rarely 4 stamens antheriferous). Leaves mainly opposite and ovate or cordate. 



4. CHILOPSIS. Corolla more funnelform ; the lobes erose. Antheriferous stamens 4; 

 also a rudimentary filament. Leaves oftener alternate or irregularly scattered, linear. 



1. BIGNONIA, Toiirn. (Commemorates the Ahhe Biyiion.) — A large 

 tropical- American gemis, with the following more northern one : 11. spring. 



B. capreolata, L. (Cuoss-vixii.) Extensively climbing, glabrous: transverse section 

 of older stems exhibiting a medullary cross: leaves of a single pair of ovate or oblong 

 acuminate and subcordate entire leaflets and a compound tendril ; accessory leaves or 

 leaflets in some axils imitate foliaceoiis stipules: pedicels in fascicles of 2 to 5 on axillary 

 spurs : calyx membranaceous : corolla 2 inches long, orange-red without, yellow within : 

 capsule G inches long, 9 lines wide; valves 1-nerved. — Spec. ii. 024 (Catesb. Car. ii. t. 

 82); Sims, Bot. Mag. t. 804; Jacq. Sclio-nb. t. 303; Michx. Fl. ii. 25. B. rrm-i'jiia, L. 

 as to syn. Clayt. & Gronov. Virg. ; Walt. Car. IGU. — Woods, in low grounds, Virginia and 

 S. Illinois to Florida and Louisiana. 



2. TECOMA, Ju.ss. Trumpet-flower, or Trumpet-creeper, (Abridg- 

 ment of the Mexican luime, Tecoinaxocltltl.) — Genu.s (of late divided into 

 several by monographers, bnt retained nearly intact by Benth. «& Hook. Gen. ii. 

 1044, digitate species exclnded) of several species, widely dispersed; ours imi)ari- 

 pinnate and the leaflets serrate, ovate, and acuminate. They have been referred 

 to different genera or subgenera on account mainly of the number of ranks of 

 seeds. Fl. summer. 



T. radicans, JUSS. Clindjing by aerial rootlets: leaflets to 11 : flowers corymbose: 

 corolla tul)ular-fuimelform, orange and scarlet, 2^ or 3 inches long: stamens not cxserted : 

 capsule lanceolate, slightly stii)itate; valves very convex, acutely narrowly margined: 

 seeds several-ranked. — DC. I'rodr. ix. 223; Nutt. Sylv. iii. t. 104; Bureau, Mon. Bign. 

 t. 14. Biynonm nulicaiis, L. (Catesb. Car. i. t. 05) ; Wangeniieim, Amer. t. 20; Sims, 

 Bot. Mag. t. 485; Sclik. Ilandb. t. 175. Campsis radicans, Seem. .Jour. Bot. &c. — Moist 

 soil, Fenn. and Illinois to Florida and Texas: connnon in cultivation. 



T. Stans, Juss. Erect shrub: leaflets 5 to 11, narrower or lanceolate, more incisely 

 serrate: flowers racemose or paniculate: calyx snuill : corolla more campanulate, yellow, 

 inch and a half long: fifth stamen often with abortive anther : capsule linear, elongated, 

 sessile; valves carinate-convex : seeds single raidved. — Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 3191 ; DC. I.e. 

 224. Bifjiionia sitnis, L. (Flum. Ic. Amer. t. 54); ,Jac([. Stirp. Amer. t. 170. Sleno/nliiitm 

 sta)is, Seem. Jour. Bot. i. 87; Bureau, 1. c. t. 13. — S. Florida (introduced ?) and S. Texas 

 to Arizona. (W. Ind., Mex., &c.) 



3. CATALPA, Scop., Walt. (Aboriginal name.) — There are a N. China 

 and a Japanese species allied to our own, and a few somewhat anomalous West 

 Indian species. Fl. summer; showy. 



C. bignonioides, W^alt. Low or large tree, with spreading branches : leaves pubes- 

 cent, at least beneath, amjjle, cordate, acuminate, rarely somewliat angidafe-lobed, long- 

 petioled : i)anicle large and loose, compound : lips of the calyx obovate, mucronate : 

 corolla inch long and broad, white or nearly so, dotted with purple and yellow in the 

 throat: pendulous slender ca])sides a foot long. — Car. 04; DC. I.e. 220; Bureau, Mon. 

 Bign. t. 25. C. cordi/hlia,, laiinu- in Duham. Arh. t. 5; Ell. Sk. i.24. Cui/rtm/trfuHa, Sims, 



