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and a tendril, or sometimes of 3 leaflets; showy orange-red flowers in axillary 

 corymbs, the tubular corolla 2V-3' long, with a short 2-lobed limb, is jjlanted 

 for ornament. [Bignonia ignea Veil.; B. venusta Ker.] 



Bignonia radicans L., Trumpet-creeper, Eed Trumpet-flower, North 

 American, frequently planted for ornament, is a high-climbing, woody vine, 

 sometimes 30° long, with pinnate leaves of 7-11 broad toothed leaflets and 

 terminal corymbs of red and orange flowers, the tubular-campanulate corolla 

 nearly 2' broad, the spindle-shaped pods 4-6' long. [Tecoma radicans Juss.] 



Bignonia obliqua H.B.K., Caracas Bignonia, Venezuelan, recorded by 

 Jones, is a vine, the leaves with 2 cordate shining leaflets and red flowers. 



Bignonia Ibuccinatoria Mairet, Red Bignonia, Mexican, a vine with 4- 

 angled branches, the petioles and inflorescence tomentose, the leaves of 2 ovate 

 or elliptic leaflets and a tendril, the clustered, blood-red flowers 4' long, Is 

 also recorded by Jones as grown in Bermuda. Neither this nor the next pre- 

 ceding species are true Bignonias. 



Anisostichus capreolata (L.) Bureau, Cross-vine, North American, a 

 high-climbing vine, with leaves of 2, broad leaflets and a tendril, the orange 

 red flowers in axillary clusters was introduced at Mt. Langton in 1874, but 

 subsequently disappeared, according to H. B. Small. [Bignonia capreolata L.J 



Anemopaegma carrerense Armitage, Carrera Vine, of Trinidad and 

 Venezuela, a glabrous vine, with petioled leaves of 2 ovate or ovate-lanceolate, 

 thin leaflets 2-3' long, axillary flowers, few in each cluster, 2^' long, the 

 short calyx truncate, the funnelform, nearly white corolla with a yellow 

 throat, the oval fruit about 3' long, is occasionally planted for ornament. 



Pandorea jasminoides (Lindl.) Schum., Jasmine Pandorea, of New 

 South Wales, seen at Spring Haven in 1914, is a glabrous, high-climbing vine, 

 with pinnate, petioled leaves of 5 or 7 ovate-lanceolate leaflets l'-2' long, and 

 white flowers in panicles, the corolla about IV long, with broad, spreading 

 lobes. [Tecoma jasminoides Lindl.] 



Kigelia pinnata (Jacq.) DC, Kigelia, of tropical Africa, occasionally 

 planted, is a tree up to 50° high, with pinnate glabrous leaves whorled in 3s, 

 the 7 or 9 obovate or oblong sessile leaflets 2'-5' long; the large clustered 

 flowers are red, or crimson, the corolla broadly campanulate and 2-lipped ; the 

 fruit is oblong-cylindric, indehiscent, up to 1*° long and 4' or 5' thick, slightly 

 compressed, rounded at the apex. [Crescentia pinnata Jacq.] 



Crescentia Cujete L., Calabash, tropical American, occasionally planted, 

 is an evergreen tree, up to 25° high, with long-branches, spatulate or oblanceo- 

 late entire clustered leaves 4-6' long, yellowish flowers about 2V long, the 

 calyx leathery, the corolla tubular-campanulate with short crisped lobes; the 

 fruit is globose or oval, smooth, green, turning dark brown, 6'-12' long, inde- 

 hiscent, with a very hard rind, which is utilized for baling boats, holding 

 water and other fluids. 



Enallagma latifolia (Mill.) Small, Black Calabash, of Florida and the 

 West Indies, recorded by Jones as found in Bermuda, has oblong to obovate 

 leaves, the fruit 2-^-4' long, with a brittle shell. [C. cucurhitina L.] 



Macrocatalpa longissima (Jacq.) Britton, ^'French Oak," West In- 

 dian, was represented in the collection at the Agricultural Station by a fine 

 young tree, flowering in the autumn of 1913. It has oblong-lanceolate, slender- 

 petioled acuminate thin leaves 3'-6' long, and white flowers in terminal 

 panicles, the tipped calyx deeply 2-lobed, the campanulate corolla o-lobed, the 

 lobes crisped; the narrowly linear drooping capsules are l°-2° long. [Catalpa 

 longissima Sims.; Bignonia longissima Jacq.] 



Spathodea campanulata Beauv., Spathodea, of tropical Africa, a tree 

 with pinnate leaves 1° long or more, of 7-17 ovate nearly entire acute leaflets 

 3'-4' long, the terminal clustered irregular showy orange flowers 3'-4' long, 



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