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BIGNQXIACEAE. 



2. TABEBUIA Gomez. 

 Trees or shrubs, with digitatelj 1-7-foliolate leaves, and mostly large and 

 showy corymbose or solitary flowers. Calyx tubular, or tubular-campanulate, 

 more or less irregularly toothed. Corolla funnelform, its tube gradually ex- 

 panded, its spreading, somewhat irregular limb 5-lobed. Stamens didynamous, 

 included, the anther-sacs diverging. Ovary 2-celled. Fruit a linear loculicidal 

 capsule. Seeds flat, winged at both ends. [Brazilian name.] About 50 

 species, natives of tropical America. Type species: Bignonia Tdbehuya Veil. 



1. Tabebuia pallida 



Miers. White Ckdar. 

 (Fig. 385.) A tree, up 

 to 60° high, the foliage 

 and inflorescence gla- 

 brous. Leaves 1-5-folio- 

 late; petioles l'-4' long; 

 leaflets elliptic to oblong- 

 elliptic or elliptic-obo- 

 vate, 6' long or less, 

 stalked, or the lower ones 

 sometimes sessile, pin- 

 nately veined, minutely 

 lepidote on both sides; 

 corymbs terminal, several: 

 flowered ; pedicels sler 

 der; calyx somewhat ob 

 lique, lepidote, about 5' 

 long; corolla pink oi 

 nearly white, about 2^' 

 long; capsule 5'-8' long, 

 about 3" thick; seed- 

 wings 4"-5" long. [Big- 

 nonia leucoxylon L., not 

 Tabehuia leucoxyla DC; 

 Tecoma pentaphylla of 

 Lefroy, of Eeade and of 

 H. B. Small; Tabebuia 

 pentaphylla of Verrill.] 



Hedges and roadsides. Naturalized. Widely planted for shade and ornament. 

 Native of the West Indies. Flowers in summer and autumn, sometimes when nearly 

 devoid of leaves. 



Tabebuia serratifolia (Yahl) Nicholson, Showy Tabebuia, of the south- 

 ern Lesser Antilles, seen at Pembroke Hall in 1913, is a tree 30° high or more, 

 with long-petioled, digitately 5-foliolate leaves, the obovate to elliptic, stalked 

 acuminate leaflets 3'-5' long, the petioles and calyx rusty-tomentose, the bright 

 yellow flattened 5-lobed narrowly campanulate corolla about '2V long. [Big- 

 nonia serratifolia Vahl.] 



Tecoma stans (L.) Juss., Trumpet-flower, tropical American, a shrub, 

 or small tree up to 30° high, with rough furrowed bark, pinnate leaves of 7 or 

 9 lanceolate sharply toothed leaflets and' terminal clusters of large yellow 

 flowers is frequently planted for ornament. [Bignoma stans L. ; Stenolobium 

 stans Seemann.] 



Pyrostegia ignea (Veil.) Presl, Comely Trumpet-flower, Brazilian, a 

 long-climbing woody vine, with glabrous leaves of 2 ovate acuminate leaflets 



