BlGNONIACEAE. 



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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, pi. 

 1; Schneider, f. 200. 



The trumpet creeper, which is 



native as far north as middle Illinois, is one of the most vig- 

 orous and tropical-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. 



