BIGNONIACEAE. 339 
CAMPSIS. Trumpet Creeper. 
(Family Bignoniaceae). 
Straggling shrubs, usually 
climbing, often by aerial roots 
emitted in double bands from be- 
low the nodes: deciduous. Stems 
subterete, moderately slender, 
warty: pith pale, rounded, con- 
tinuous or progressively disappear- 
ing from the nodes. Buds rather 
small, mostly solitary, sessile, tri- 
angular, compressed, ascending, 
with 2 or 3 pairs of exposed scales. 
Leaf-scars opposite, shield-shaped, 
low: bundle-trace 1, C-shaped, com- 
pound: stipule-scars lacking, but 
the leaf-scars connected by hairy 
transverse ridges. (Tecoma). 
Winter-character references: — 
Campsis chinensis. Schneider, f. 
200. C. radicans. “Brendel, 28, pl. 
1; Schneider, f. 200. 
The trumpet creeper, which is 
native as far north as middle Illinois, is one of the most vig- 
orous and tropicai-appearing of hardy climbers. Its flowers - 
are among the most brilliant and largest of those borne by 
such plants and, like most other American flowers with 
large red tubular flowers containing a great deal of nectar, 
are pollinated by humming birds whose visits afford another 
reason for planting such vines as this and the trumpet 
honeysuckle. 
1. Glabrous, climbing. C. chinensis. 
Puberulent or scabrid. 2. 
2. Climbing, with abundant roots. (1). C. radicans, 
Bushy. C. radicans speciosa. 
