336 BIGNONIA FAMILY. 



1. ECCREMOCARFUS. '(Name Greek, meaning hanging fruit.') 



E. scd6er, Ruiz & Pav. (or CALAMPELIS SCABER). 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. 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 BIGNONIA, which name the species still bear 

 in cultivation. 



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



T. radicans, 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 r 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. 



- *- Corolla bell-shaped, with the tube little longer than the calyx. 



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

 N., climbing little, with narrow leaflets, and 5-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. bignonioldes, Walt. (C. STRING jsr6LiA). COMMON 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 

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

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



C. speci6sa, 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 



