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DESCRIPTIONS OF THE SHRUBS 



in the extreme South. The fruit is a long capsule, 5 to 7 inches, with 

 winged seeds. 



YE i. i.ow ' EI.PKK' (401 ) Tecoma stans grows in Florida to the height 

 of 20 feet or more and spreads in dense masses. The leaves are opposite, 

 odd-pinnate with 5 to 11 lanceolate coarsely toothed blades 1J to 4 inches 

 long. The flowers are fragrant, l\ 

 indies long, and bloom from spring 

 to September in great clusters. 



The capsules 



are 5 to 7 inches 



long with many 

 winged seeds. 



FIG. 498. Chinese Buddleia. 



FIG. 499. Madagascar Buddleia. 



SOFT ' ELDER ' Tecoma mollis is less hardy and decidedly more 

 hairy and the flowers are not fragrant. [Seeds.] 



Catalpa. The CATALPAS are usually trees, but one variety is of low 

 growth and could be used as a shrub ; it is, however, usually grafted on 

 the stem of another species to produce a weeping or a round-headed tree. 

 This is the extensively cultivated CHINESE, DWARF, or ROUND-HEADED 

 C \T M.I-A (492) Catalpa Bungei. In reality it is a dwarf variety of our 

 commonest American species of INDIAN BEAN Catalpa bignonioides. 

 All the Catalpas have opposite for whorled in 3's) heart-shaped leaves, 

 large beautiful nearly white clustered flowers, and long capsules filled with 

 \\ inged seeds which hang on through the winter. [Seeds.] 



Chil6psis linearis. The so-called DESERT ' WILLOW ' (493), from Texas, 

 is a beautiful continuously blooming straggling shrub or small tree with 



