244 lUGNONIACE^. [chap. 



d-Ty. Natural Order, BignoniacecE. — The Bignonia Family. 



Trees or climbing shrubs, with opposite, usually compound, 

 exstipulate leaves. Flowers irregular. Stamens usually fewer 

 than corolla-lobes. Ovary two-celled. Seeds numerous. 



winged. 



r la. 147. tiigiionia inaica; a capsuic to the left : much reducea. 



Type — Bignonia {Calosanthes) indica. 

 A large tree, with large, opposite, pinnately divided 

 leaves (four to six feet long), terminal racemose panicles 

 of trumpet -shaped, red or .purple, slightly two -lipped 

 flowers, and very long, flattened, two-valved capsules- 



