ORDER LXXXlll. IJIGNUNIACE, 439 



Bpuriously 4-ceIIed, many-seeded. Style 1. Capsule 1 — 2- 

 celled. Seed compressed, usually Avinged. Albumen none. 

 Trees, climbing or running plants. Leaver without stipules. 



Genus I.— BIGNO'NIA. L. 13—2. 

 (In honor of the Abb6 Bignon.) 



Calyx 5-cleft, cup-shaped, coriaceous. Corolla campanulate, 

 5-lobed, ventricose beneath. Stamens 4, didynamous. Pod 

 2-celled. Seed with membranaceous wings. 



1. B. capreola'ta. a vine, climbing over trees and shrubs. Leaves 

 connate, lanceolate, cordate, glabrous, bearing tendrils, peduncles axil- 

 lary, each 1-flowered. — Dull red. ^ . March — April. Common. 



CrosS'vine. 



2. B. rad'icans. a vine, climbing over the loftiest trees, attaching 

 itself by radicles. Leaves pinnate ; leaflets ovate, toothed, acuminate, 

 glabrous on the upper surface, pubescent beneath. F/oicers in corymbs. 

 Corolla slightly ventricose beneath, tinged with yellow on the inside, 

 with the segments nearly round, with a barren filament. — Red. ^ . 

 June — Sept. Common. Tccoma radicans. 



Genus II.— CATAL'PA. L. 2—1. 



(Its name in India.) 



Calyx 2-parted. CoroZ/a. campanulate, with the tube ventri- 

 cose, border with 4 unequal lobes. Stamens 2, fertile, and 2 — 

 3 sterile. Stigma in 2 plaits. Capsule cylindrical, 2-celled, 

 2-valved. Seed with membranaceous margins. 



1. C. cordifo'lia. a tree, with long, opposite, expanding branches. 

 Leaves nearly round, cordate, acuminate, glabrous on the upper surlace, 

 downy beneath, very large, usually 3 in a whorl. Flowers in large, ter- 

 minal panicles; segments of the calyx obovate, concave; those of tlie 

 corolla crenulate, with the tube variegated, with yellow and purple; 

 silique long, with the dissepiment opposite the valves. — White. ^. 

 April — May. Common on the Ocmulgee. 20 — 50 feet. 



Genus III.— MARTYN'IA. 13—2. 

 (In lionor of John Martyn, an English botanist) 



Calyx 5-cleft. Corolla hypogynous, bilabiate, with the limb 

 5-lobed. Stamens 4, didynamous. Ovary spuriously 4-collod. 

 Style 1. Stigma divided. Fruit a ligneous capsule, termi- 

 nated by a hooked beak. Seed few, large. Herbaceous plants, 

 with alternate leaves, and a.xillary Howers. 



1. M. probosci'dea, (Glox.) Stem procumbent, branching, fistulous, 

 viscidly pubescent, whole plant fetid. Flowers on axillary peduncles. 

 6W?/x split to the base on the underside. Capsule ligneous, 2-vulved, 

 4-celled, with the surface furrowed, with 2 curved beaks, 2 — 3 inches 

 long. — Dull yellow. June — Aug. Common. 



