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scars; ovoid sessile not superposed buds with several pairs of 

 loose scales ; compound leaves with terminal tendrils ; large per- 

 fect gamopetalous flowers ; and large flattened capsules with 

 winged seeds. 



1. Tendrils ending in disks. 2. 



Tendrils claw-like, without disks. B. Unguis-cati. 



2. Flowers reddish. B. capreolata. 

 Flowers purplish. B. capreolata atrosanguinea. 



CAMPSIS. Trumpet Creeper. 



Deciduous woody plants, climbing by aerial roots, with mod- 

 erate roundish twigs ; round continuous or evanescent pith ; op- 

 posite somewhat raised half-round or round leaf-scars with a 

 U-shaped compound bundle-trace ; no stipule-scars ; ovoid sessile 

 buds with several pairs of scales ; odd-pinnate leaves with toothed 

 leaflets ; large perfect trumpet-shaped gamopetalous flowers ; and 

 compressed pods with numerous winged seeds. (Tecoma). 



1. Shrubby. C. radicans speciosa. 

 Climbing. 3. 



2, Flowers orange-red. C. radicans. 

 Flowers scarlet. C. radicans atropurpurea. 



CATALPA. Indian Bean. 



Small or medium-sized trees with rough gray bark ; brown 

 rather soft but durable wood with moderately large ducts slightly 

 more crowded in the spring growth and in more or less evident 

 transverse lines later in the season, and fine medullary rays ; 

 stout roundish twigs ; large round homogeneous pale pith ; large 

 elliptical more or less raised or cup-shaped leaf-scars usually 

 in whorls of 3 of which in successive whorls two are regularly 

 larger and smaller, with numerous bundle-traces confluent in an 

 ellipse; no stipule-scars ; rather small rounded solitary sessile buds 

 with several exposed scales, the terminal bud wanting ; simple 

 long-stalked large ovate often cordate entire or angled rather 

 than lobed leaves ; large spotted whitish funnel-shaped perfect 

 gamopetalous flowers ; and long cylindrical 2-valved . capsules 

 with flat seeds long-ciliate from the ends, 



