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II. SESAMUM FAMILY, &c. ; herbs, with simple leaves, 

 some of the upper ones alternate, and 4-celled ovary and fruit 

 (but the stigma of only 2 lips or lobes), containing flat but thick- 

 coated wingless seeds. 



5. SESAMUM. Calyx 5-parted, short. Corolla tubular bell-shaped, 5-lobed ; the 



2 lobes of the upper lip shorter than the others. Stamens 4. Fruit an 

 oblong obtuselj^ 4-sided pod, 2-valved. Flowers solitary in the axils of the 

 leaves, almost sessile. 



6. MARTYNIA. Calyx 5-toothed, often cleft down one side. Flowers large, in 



terminal corymb or raceme. 



1. ECCREMOCARPUS. (Name, from the Greek, means hanging fruit.) 

 E. scaber, or CalAmpelis caber, from Chili, cult, in gardens and con- 

 servatories ; tender, climbs by branched tendrils at the end of the twice pinnate 

 leaves ; leaflets roughish or smoothish, thin, ovate or heart-shaped ; flowers in 

 loose drooping racemes ; corolla inflated-clubshaped and gibbous, orange-red, 

 about 1' long. 



2. BIGNONIA. (Named for the French Abbd' Bignon.) Our only true 

 native Bigxonia is 



B. capreolata. Climbing trees from S. Virg. to El. and S. ; smooth, 

 the leaves evergreen at the south, with a short petiole and often what seems 

 like a pair of stipules in the axil, a single pair of lance-oblong leaflets heart- 

 shaped at base, and a branched tendril between them ; flowers several in the 

 axils, the corolla 2' long, orange-red outside, yellow within, in spring. 



3. TECOMA, TRUMPET-FLOWER. (Mexican name abridged.) 

 Formerly under Bignonia, which name the species still bear in cultivation. 

 Fl. late summer. 



T. radicans, Wild T. or Trumpet-Creeper. Wild from Penn. and 

 111. S., planted farther N. ; climbing freely by rootlets ; leaves of 5 - 11 ovate or 

 lance-ovate taper-pointed and toothed leaflets ; flowers corymbed ; orange-yellow 

 and scarlet corolla funnel-shaped. 



T. grandiflbra, Great-flowered T. Cult, from Japan and China, 

 not quite hardy N., climbing little, with narrower leaflets, and 5-cleft calyx 

 nearly equalling the tube of the corolla, which is bell-shaped, 3' long and 

 broad, much wider than in the foregoing. 



T. Capensis, Cape T. of conservatories, has smaller and rounder leaflets, 

 naked-pcdnneled cluster of flowers, long-tubular and curving orange-colored 

 corolla 2' long, and stamens protruded. 



T. jasminoides. A fine greenhouse species, from Australia, twining, 

 very smooth, with lance-ovate entire bright green leaflets, and white corolla 

 pink-purple in the throat. 



4. CATALPA, or INDIAN BEAN. (Aboriginal name; the popular 

 name alludes to the shape of the pods.) 



C. bignonioldes, Common Catalpa. Tree wild S. W., and widely 

 planted ; with large heart-shaped pointed leaves downy beneath, open panicles 

 (in summer) of white flowers (I' long) variegated and dotted within with some 

 yellow and purple, and pods 1° long. 



C. Ksempferi, of Japan, beginning to be planted, has smooth leaves, 

 many of them 3-lobed or angled, and flowers one half smaller. 



5. SESAMUM, SESAME. (The Greek name, from the Arabic.) ® 



S. IndiCUm, from India and Egypt, somewhat cult, or running wild in 

 waste places far S. ; rather pubescent, with oblong or lanceolate leaves, the 

 lower often 3-lobed or parted, pale rose or white corolla 1' long, and sweet 

 oily seeds, used in the East for food, oil, &c. 



