BROOM RAPE FAMILY 223 
very slender, 1 ft. or more in length, pendulous. Seeds with long 
fringed wings. On margins of rivers and swamps S. ; often cultivated.* 
2. C. speciosa Warder. Caratra. A tall tree with very durable 
wood. Leaves large, heart-shaped, taper-pointed. Corolla about 2 in. 
long, almost white, but slightly spotted; tube inversely conical; limb 
somewhat oblique, its lower lobe notched. Pod rather stout. Rich, 
damp woods, especially S. W.; often cultivated. 
Il. BIGNONIA L. 
Woody vines. Leaves opposite, compound, usually tendril- 
bearing. Flowers large, in axillary clusters. Calyx cup-shaped, 
truncate, or undulate-toothed. Corolla spreading-tubular, some- 
what 2-lipped, the lobes rounded. Stamens 4, 2 long and 2 short. 
Capsule linear, flattened parallel with the partition, the two 
valves separating from the partition at maturity; seeds flat, 
broadly winged.* 
1. B. capreolata L. Cross Vine. Stem climbing high, a trans- 
verse section of the older stems showing a conspicuous cross formed 
by the 4 medullary rays; branches smooth. Leaves evergreen, peti- 
oled; leaflets 2, ovate, taper-pointed with a blunt apex, heart-shaped 
at the base, entire, stalked; upper leaflets transformed into branching 
tendrils. Flowers numerous, short-peduncled. Corolla 2 in. long, red- 
dish-brown without, yellow within. Capsule 6 in. long, flat, the valves 
with a prominent central nerve; seeds broadly winged on the sides, 
short-winged on the ends. Common in woods 8.* 
92. OROBANCHACEA. Broom Rare FAMILY 
Leafless brownish root parasites; rootstock often tuberous, 
naked or scaly; stem usually stout, solitary, scaly. Flowers 
spiked or racemed. Sepals 4-5, free from the ovary. Corolla 
hypogynous, not actinomorphic, the tube curved, the limb 2- 
lipped. Stamens 4 (2 long and 2 short), inserted on the corolla 
tube; anthers 2-celled, the cells spurred at the base. Ovary 
1-celled, of 2 carpels; style simple; stigma 2-lobed; ovules 
many. Capsule 1-celled, 2-valved, few—many-seeded; seeds 
very small. 
I. CONOPHOLIS Wallr. 
Stems often clustered, stout, covered with scales which 
overlap, the uppermost ones each with an axillary flower, 
