336 BIGNONTA FAMILY. 



1. ECCREMOCARPUS. (Name Greek, meaning hanging fruit.) 



E. scaber, Ruiz & Pav. (or Cai.Ampelis scXber). From Chile, cult, in 

 gardens and conservatories ; tender, climbs by branched tendrils at the 

 end of the twice pinnate leaves ; leaflets roughish or smoothish, thin, 

 ovate or heart-shaped ; flowers in loose drooping racemes ; corolla inflated 

 club-shaped and gibbous, orange-red, about 1' long. 



2. BIGNONIA. (Named for the French Abbe Bignon.) 



B. capreolita, Linn. Climbing trees from Va. to S. 111., and S.; 

 smooth, the leaves evergreen at the south, with a short petiole, and often 

 what seems like a pair of stipules in the axil, a single pair of lance-oblong 

 leaflets heart-shaped at base, and a branched tendril between them ; 

 flowers several in the axils, the corolla 2' long, orange-red outside, yellow 

 within, in spring. 



B. venusta, Ker. A greenhouse species from Brazil, producing an 

 abundance of crimson-orange, funnel-form flowers, with a spreading 

 border and hairy inside ; leaves ternate (at least the lower ones), the leaf- 

 lets ovate-oblong and acuminate. 



3. TECOMA, TRUMPET FLOWER. (Mexican name abridged.) 

 Formerly included under Bignonia, which name the species still bear 

 in cultivation. ^ p^^,^^ climbing. 



•*- Corolla tube long or prominent, the Jloxoer funnel- form or salver-form. 



T. radlcans, Juss. Trumpet Creeper or Trumpet Vine. Wild from 

 Penn. and 111. S., and commonly planted; climbing freely by rootlets; 

 leaves of 5-11 ovate or lance-ovate, taper-pointed, and toothed leaflets; 

 flowers corymbed ; orange-yellow and scarlet corolla funnel-shaped, large. 



T. Capensis, Lindl. Has smaller and rounder leaflets, naked-peduncled 

 cluster of flowers, long-tubular and curving orange-colored corolla 2' long, 

 and stamens protruded ; conservatories. From Cape of Good Hope. 



T. jasminoldes, A. Cunn. A fine greenhouse species, from Australia, 

 twining, very smooth, with lance-ovate, entire, bright green leaflets, and 

 white corolla, pink-purple in the throat. 



•^ t- Corolla bell-shaped, with the tube little longer than the calyx. 



T. grandifldra, Delaun. Cult, from Japan and China, not quite hardy 

 N., climbing little, with narrow leaflets, and o-cleft calyx nearly equal- 

 ing the tube of the corolla, which is bell-shaped, 3' long and broad, much 

 wider than in the foregoing. 



* * Plant an erect shrub- 



T. stdns, Juss. Native to Texas and W., but cult. S.; leaflets 5-11, 

 lanceolate, incisely serrate ; flowers yellow and with a wide-open tube, 

 racemose or paniculate. 



4. CATALPA or INDIAN BEAN. (Aboriginal name ; the popular 

 name alludes to the shape of the pods.) 



C. bignonioides, Walt. (C. string.ef6lia). Commox Catalpa. Tree 

 wild Ga., S., and widely planted, especially in Middle States and S. ; with 

 large, heart-shaped, pointed leaves, downy beneath, open panicles (in 

 sumnier) of white, much spotted flowers \l\' long), with oblique limb 

 and lower lobe entire, and thin pods 1° long ; bark thin. 



C. specibsa, Warder. Taller, more erect tree and hardier N., where it 

 is much planted ; corolla about 2' long and nearly white (inconspicuously 

 spotted), the lower lobe emarginate ; capsule thicker; bark thick and 



