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pollen, ovate with long point, the other long and slender, 

 empty. A parasite on roots of various plants, with handsome 

 white, orange, rosy, or scarlet flowers. 



Leaves scale-like, opposite or upper alternate. 



Order Bignoniace/E. 



Flowers perfect, zygomorphic. Calyx 5 ; corolla 5, trumpet 

 or bell-shaped, imbricate; stamens 5, epipetalous, didynamous, 

 or 4, the staminode at the back always present ; one anther 

 lobe is usually above the other. Ovary raised on a disc, 

 bicarpellary, with many anatropous ovules. Seeds without 

 endosperm, with large membranous wings. 



Inflorescence usually dichasial, passing into a cincinnus. 



Trees or shrubs. Many are found in Brazil. Often tendril 

 climbers, the tendrils taking the place of leaflets. 



Stamens 4 with staminode. 



Tecomaria is a handsome shrub with racemes of scarlet 

 flowers. Stamens are exserted. The 

 walls of the capsule are flattened at 

 right angles 'to the septum and de- 

 hiscence takes place loculicidally. 



Fig. 343.— Floral diagram of 

 Tecomaria (after Hooker). 



The opposite imparipinnate leaves are 

 without stipules. Used as hedges in the 

 West. Wild in the East. 



Bignonia has the pod flattened parallel 

 with the partition, the dehiscence is septi- 

 fragal, and the compound leaves end in a 

 tendril. Probably not native. B, capensis, 

 Th., is placed in Tecomaria in. " Flora 

 Capensis." 



Stamens 5. 



Cataphractes is a spiny shrub, with calyx tubular cleft 

 on one side. Corolla white. Stamens 6 or 7. Ovules. few, 

 fruit warted. Found in Namaqualand. Leaves simple, tufted. 



Rhigozum. — Calyx campanulate. Flowers yellow, borne 

 singly in the axils of alternate leaves. A rigid shrub in the 

 Eastern and Northern districts. Fruit warted. 



