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TRUMPET-CREEPER FAMILY. 



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About 80 species, natives of warm and temperate regions of both the Old World and the New. 

 Besides the following, another occurs in the southern United States. 



i. Tecoma radicans (L,.) DC. Trumpet-flower. Trumpet-creeper. 



(Fig. 3366.) 



Bignonia radicans L. Sp. PI. 624. 1753. 

 Tecoma radicans DC. Prodr. 9: 223. 1845. 



A woody vine, climbing to the height-of 20 

 or prostrate if meeting no support. Leaves petioled, 

 odd-pinnate, not tendril-bearing, 8 / -i5 / long; leaf- 

 lets 7-1 1, ovate to lanceolate, short-stalked, sharply 

 serrate, reticulate-veined, glabrous, or pubescent 

 on the veins beneath, acute or acuminate at the apex, 

 narrowed at the base, i)4 / ~3 / long; flowers corym- 

 bose, short-pedicelled; corymbs 2-9-flowered; calyx 

 coriaceous, about r/ long; corolla scarlet, 2j4 / long, 

 the tube veined within, 3 times as long as the limb; 

 anther-sacs glabrous; stigma spatulate; capsule 

 stalked, 4 / -6 / long, io" in diameter, narrowed at 

 both ends, little flattened, ridged above and below 

 by the margins of the valves: seeds in several rows 

 on each surface of the partition, broadly winged 

 laterally, the wing eroded. 



In moist woods and thickets, southern New Jersey 

 and Pennsylvania to Florida and Texas, north to Illi- 

 nois. Escaped from cultivation further north. Called 

 also Trumpet-vine and Trumpet-Ash. Aug.-Sept. 



i. CATALPA Scop. Introd. 170. 1771. 



Trees, or some exotic species shrubs, with opposite or rarely verticillate simple petioled 

 leaves, and large showy white or mottled flowers in terminal panicles or corymbs. Calyx 

 closed in the bud, splitting irregularly or into 2 lips in opening. Corolla-tube campanulate 

 or obconic, oblique, expanded above, 2-lipped, 5-lobed, the lobes all spreading, their mar- 

 gins crisped. Anther-bearing stamens 2, ascending under the upper lip of the corolla; an- 

 ther-sacs glabrous, linear or oblong, divergent; sterile stamens (staminodia) 3, short (or oc- 

 casionally 4 perfect didynamous stamens and 1 stamiuodium). Disk obsolete. Ovary sessile, 

 2-celled; ovules in 2-several rows on the sides of the partition. Capsule elongated-linear, 

 terete, loculicidally dehiscent. Seeds flat, the large lateral wings dissected into capillary 

 processes. [The American Indian name of the first species below.] 



About 7 species, the following in eastern North America, 2 in eastern Asia, 2 or 3 in the West 

 Indies. 



Corolla thickly spotted within, i'-i 1 " long, the lower lobe entire. 1. C. Catalpa 



Corolla little spotted, 2' long, the lower lobe emarginate. 2. C. speciosa. 



1. Catalpa Catalpa (I,.) Karst. Catalpa. 

 Indian Bean. Candle-tree. Bean-tree. 

 (Fig. 3367. ) 



Bignonia Catalpa L. Sp. PI. 622. 1753. 

 Catalpa bignonioides Walt. Fl. Car. 64. 1788. 

 Catalpa Catalpa Karst. Deutsch. Fl. 927. 1880-83. 



A tree, with thin flaky bark, reaching a maximum 

 height of about 6o and a trunk diameter of 4 , the 

 branches spreading. Leaves strong-scented, broadly 

 ovate, entire, or 3-lobed, acute or acuminate at the 

 apex, densely pubescent beneath, becoming gla- 

 brous above, obtuse at the base, 6 / -i2 / long, the 

 lobes, when present, acuminate; petioles stout, 

 nearly as long as the blade; flowers white, numerous, 

 mottled with yellow and purple within, i / -i^ / 

 long, in large terminal erect panicles; corolla-tube 

 campanulate, the lower lobe entire; capsules io / -i3 / 

 long, 4 // -5 // thick, thin-walled, drooping. 



In woods in the Gulf States. Escaped from cultiva- 

 tion northward as far as Pennsylvania and southern 

 New York. Wood brown, soft, weak, durable in con- 

 tact with the soil. Weight per cubic foot 28 lbs. 

 June-July. 



