4. Tecoma.] 102. BIGNONIACEM. 



II. Climbers, without tendrils : — 



A. Stamens exserted (Tecomaria, Fenzl.) 3. capensis. 



B. Stamens included : — 



1, Flowers in clusters. Fruit elongate {Campgis, Lour.) :— 



Calyx shortly lohed, glandular 4. radicans. 



Cal3"x deeply lobed without glands 5. grandijloia. 



2. Flowers in panicles. Capsule oblong {Pandorea, Endl.) : — 

 Panicles large loose, corolla-lobes more than half as long 



as tube Q.jasminoides. 



Panicles dense, short, lobes not half so long as tube . . 7. atotralis. 



1. T. undulata, G. Don. Syn. Tecomella undulata. Seem. 



A shrub or small tree -svith narrowly oblong entire undulate leaves 

 about 6" long and oraug-e red floAvers in corymbs mostly terminating 

 short lateral branches. Capsule 8" by '3", slightly curved. Seeds 

 1 by "S" including the wing, which is very narrow at the apex and 

 absent at base. 



Palamau, Hendleij ! Collected by Br. J. P. Hendley on waste land "with every 

 appearance of being wild." Fl. April. It is indigenous also in the dry country of 

 western India. 



Young shoots grey puberulous with stellate hairs. Leaves obtuse. Petiole 

 •7" long. Pedicels -lo-b". Calyx '3", lobes short broad obtuse. Corolla I'o" 

 tubular- ventricose with 5 rounded lobes. Stamens scai'cely exsert, glabrous, anther- 

 cells pendulous, narrowly oblong. 



2. T. stans, L. Syn. Stenolobium stans, D. Bon. 



A very pretty small tree or large shrub wdth opposite decussate 

 pinnate or sub-2-pinnate leaves and 7-11 lanceolate serrate or deeply 

 gashed leaflets 3-4" long. Flowers golden yellow in terminal corymbs 

 or clusters. Corolla tubular-ventricose about I'o". Capsules 6-9" 

 linear, compressed. 



Very common in gardens and easily raised from seed. Native of the West Indies. 

 Fl. c.s. 



Var. apiifolia has even more graceful folinge with the leaflets 

 deeply incised or sub-pinnatifid or forked. 

 As common as the last. 



8. T. capensis, Lindl. Syn. Tecomaria capensis, Spach. 



A glabrous climber with pinnate about 9-foliolate glabrous leaves with ovate 

 serrate leaflets. Flowers orange red about 2" long in dense peduncled racemes. 

 Corolla tubular incurved. Stamens exsert, anther-cells divaricate. 



In gardens and plant-houses. Kative of the Cape. 



4. T. radicans, J^lss. Syn. Campsis radicans. Seem. 



A spreading shriib emitting roots from its branches where thej' touch the soil or 

 sub-stratum, with pinnate leaves and 9-11 ovate-aciiminate dentate-serrate leaflets 

 jjuberulous on the nerves beneath. Flowers in great profusion orange-scarlet 

 tubular l*2o" long in drooping corymbs. 



Flowers most of the j-ear. Native of tropical America. 



5. T. grandiflora, Delaun. Syn. Campsis grandiflora, K. Sch. 



A handsome climbing shrub, also with numerous rooting branches, "graceful 

 gpray-like foliage of bijnnnate leaves; seven leaflets roundish, saw-edged, about 

 •75" long" iFirmhii/er). Flowers orange-coloured, in large drooping clusters, 

 corolla shorter and broader than in 2\ radicaiis with the tube scarcely longer than 

 the calyx. 



Fls. h.s., deciduous in c.s. Native of Japan. 



Firminger seems wrong in callingthe leaves 2-pinnate ; they are odd-pinnate with 

 7-11 ovate acuminate dentate-serrate leaflets. 



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