33G BIGNONIA FAMILY. 



1. ECCREMOCARPUS. (^ame Greek, meaning hanginr/ fruit.) 



E. scaber, Ruiz & Pav. (or CalAmpelis 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 Abhe Bujnon.) 



B. capreolata, 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 Bigxonia, which name the species still bear 

 in cultivation. ^ p^^^^^^ dimbim,. 



*- Corolla tuhr long or prominent, the floicer funnel-form or salver-form. 



T. radicans, Juss. Thumpet Cheeper or Trumpet Vine. AVild from 

 Penn. and HI. 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, unth the tube little Iniir/rr than the calyx. 



T. grandiflbra, Delaun. Cult, from Japan and China, not (piite hardy 

 N., climbing little, with narrow leaflets, and iVcieft 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 BE.AN. (Aboriginal name ; the popular 

 name alludes to the shape of the pods.) 



C. bignonioides, Walt. (C. syringjek6ma). Common Catalpa. Tree 

 wild Ua., S., and widely planted, especially in ISIiddle States and S. ; with 

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

 summer) of white, much spotted flowers (1]' long), with oblique limb 

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



C. sp3ci6sa, 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 



