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II. SESAMUM FAMILY, &c. ; herbs, with simple leaves, 

 some of the upper ones alternate, and 4-celled ovary and fruit 

 (but the stigma of only 2 lips or lobes), containing flat but thick- 

 coated wingless seeds. 



5. SESAMUM. Calyx 6-parted, short. Corolla tubular bell-shaped, B-lobed; the 



2 lobes of the upper lip shorter than the others. Stamens 4. Fruit an 

 oblong obtusely 4-sided pod, 2-valved. Flowers solitary in the axils of the 

 leaves, almost sessile. 



6. MAKT YNIA. Calyx 5-toothed, often cleft down one side. Flowers large, in- 



terminal corymb or raceme. 



1. ECCREMOCAEPUS. (Name, ii-om the Greek, means hanging fruit.) 



E. SC^ber, or CalAmpelis cabee, from Chili, cult, in gardens and con- 

 servatories ; 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-clubshaped and gibbous, orange-red, 

 about 1' long. 



2. BIGWONIA. (Named for the Trench Abb^ Bignon.) Our only true 

 native Bignon i a is 



B. eapreolita. Climbing trees from S. Virg. to HI. and S. ; smootll, 

 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. 



3. TE'COMA, TRUMPET-FLOWER. (Mexican name abridged.) 

 Formerly under Bignonia, which name the species stUl bear in cultivation. 

 Fl. late summer. 



T. radleans, Wild T. or Trumpet-Creeper. Wild from Penn. and 

 111. S., planted farther N. ; climbing freely by rootlets; leaves of 5-11 ovate or 

 lance-ovate taper-pointed and toothed leaflets ; flowers corymbed ; orange-yellow 

 and scarlet corolla funnel-shaped. 



T. graildifl6ra, Great-flowered T. Cult, from Japan and China, 

 not quite hardy N., climbing little, with narrower leaflets, and 5-cleft calyx 

 nearly equalling the tube of the corolla, which is bell-shaped, 3' long and 

 broad, much wider than in the foregoing. 



T. Gap^nsiS, Cape T. of conservatories, has smaller and rounder leaflets, 

 naked-peduncled cluster of flowers, long-tubular and curving orange-colored 

 corolla 2' long, and stamens protruded. 



T. jasminoides. A fine greenhouse species, from Australia, twining, 

 very smooth, with lance-ovate entire bright green leaflets, and white corolla 

 pink-purple in the throat. 



4. CATALPA, or INDIAN BEAN. (Aboriginal name; the popular 

 name alludes to the shape of the pods.) 



C. bignonioldes, Common Catalpa. Tree wild S. W., and widely 

 planted ; with large heart-sh4ped pointed leaves downy beneath, open panicles 

 (in summer) of white flowers (1' long) variegated and dotted within with some 

 yellow and pmple, and pods 1° Ipng. 



C. KEempt'eri, of Japan, beginning to be planted, has smooth leayga, 

 many of them 3-lobed or angled, and flowers one half smaller. 



5. SESAMUM, SESAME. (The Greek name, from the Arabic.) ® 



S. Indicum, from India and Egypt, somewhat cult, or running wild in 

 waste places far S. ; rather pubescent, with oblong or lanceolate leaves, the 

 lower often 3-lobed or parted, pale rose or white corolla I' long, and sweet 

 oily seeds, used in the East for food, oil, &c. 



