SCROPHULARIACEAE. 



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shoots coarsely serrate, those of older steins mostly entire ; the showy violet 

 flowers, about 2' long, are borne in large terminal panicles, the slightly 

 irregular corolla puberulent; its fruit is an ovoid pointed capsule about 2' 

 long. [Bigjionia tomentosa Thunb. ; Paulownia imperialis Sieb. & Zucc] 



Family 11. BIGNONIACEAE Pers. 



Trumpet-creeper Family. 



Trees, shrubs or woody vines, a few exotic species herbs, with opposite 

 (rarely alternate) leaves, and mostly large and showy, clustered, more or less 

 irregular flowers. Calyx inferior, gamosepalous. Corolla gamopetalous, 

 5-lobed, somewhat 2-lipped, at least in the bud. Anther-bearing stamens 

 2 or 4, inserted on the tube of the corolla and alternate with its lobes; 

 anthers 2-celled, the sacs longitudinally dehiscent. Disk annular or cup- 

 like. Ovary mostly 2-celled ; placentae parietal, or on the partition-wall of 

 the ovary; ovules numerous, horizontal, anatropous; style slender; stigma 

 terminal, 2-lobed. Capsule 2-valved. Seeds flat, transverse, winged in our 

 genera; endosperm none; cotyledons broad and flat, emarginate or 2-lobed; 

 radicle short, straight. About 60 genera and over 500 species of wide 

 distribution in tropical regions, a few in the temperate zones. 



Leaves pinnate ; vine-like shrubs. 1. Tecoiyiaria. 



Leaves digitate or unifoliolate ; trees or erect shrubs. 2. Tabehuia. 



1. TECOMARIA Spach. 

 Vines or shrubs, with opposite petioled pinnate leaves, the leaflets ser- 

 rate, and showy flowers in terminal panicles or racemes. Calyx short, regular, 

 5-toothed. Corolla irregularly funnelform, the tube mostly curved, the limb 

 somewhat 2-lipped. Stamens exserted, the filaments filiform. Style slender, 

 exserted. Capsule linear, compressed. Seeds winged. [Name from similarity 

 to Tecoma.] Two or three species, natives of South Africa, the following 

 typical. 



1. Tecomaria capensis (Thunb.) 

 Spach. Cape Trumpet-flower. (Fig. 

 384.) Shrubby, 4°-8° high, or half- 

 climbing, the twigs and leaves glabrous 

 or minutely pubescent. Leaves 4'-6' 

 long; leaflets 5-9, ovate, elliptic, or the 

 lower obovate, acute or bluntish at the 

 apex, mostly narrowed at the base, short- 

 stalked, rather coarsely serrate, 2' long 

 or less; flowers in short terminal pan- 

 icles; corolla bright orange-red, about 

 2' long, the curved tube about 3 times 

 as long as the spreading limb ; capsule 

 flattened, about 2' long, and 2" wide. 

 [Bignonia capensis Thunb.; Tecoma 

 capensis Lindl.] 



Along roads and in waste grounds, escaped from cultivation. Naturalized. 

 Extensively planted for hedges and finely ornamental. Native of South Africa. 

 Naturalized in the West Indies. Flowers freely and conspicuously In summer and 

 autumn. 



