BIGNONIACEAE. . 169 
scars; ovoid sessile not superposed buds with several pairs of 
loose scales; compound leaves with terminal tendrils; large per- 
fect gamopetalous flowers; and large flattened capsules with 
winged seeds. 
1. Tendrils ending in disks. 2. 
Tendrils claw-like, without disks. B. Unguis-cati. 
2. Flowers reddish. B. capreolata. 
Flowers purplish. B. capreolata atrosanguinea. 
CAmpesis, Trumpet Creeper. 
Decidtious woody plants, climbing by aerial roots, with mod- 
erate roundish twigs; round continuous or evanescent pith; op- 
posite somewhat raised half-round or round leaf-scars with a 
U-shaped compound bundle-trace; no stipule-scars; ovoid sessile 
buds with several pairs of scales; odd-pinnate leaves with toothed 
leaflets; large perfect trumpet-shaped gamopetalous flowers; and 
compressed pods with numerous winged seeds. (Tecoma). 
1. Shrubby. C. radicans speciosa. 
Climbing. 3. 
2, Flowers orange-red. C. radicans. 
Flowers scarlet. C. radicans atropurpurea. 
CATALPA. Indian Bean. 
Small or medium-sized trees with rough gray bark; brown 
rather soft but durable wood with moderately large ducts slightly 
more crowded in the spring growth and in more or less evident 
transverse lines later in the season, and fine medullary rays; 
stout roundish twigs; large round homogeneous pale pith; large 
elliptical more or less raised or cup-shaped leaf-scars usually 
in whorls of 3 of which in successive whorls two are regularly 
larger and smaller, with numerous bundle-traces confluent in an 
ellipse; no stipule-scars; rather small rounded solitary sessile buds 
with several exposed scales, the terminal bud wanting; simple 
long-stalked large ovate often cordate entire or angled rather 
than lobed leaves; large spotted whitish funnel-shaped perfect 
gamopetalous flowers; and long cylindrical 2-valved_ capsules 
with flat seeds long-ciliate from the ends, 
