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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. 



Yellow 'Elder' (491) — Tecoma stilus — gi'owsin Florida to the height 

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

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

 long. The flowers are fragrant, 1| 

 inches long, and bloom from spring 

 to September in great clusters. 



The capsules 



are 5to 7 inches 

 A^ ^vJ^ long with many 



winged seeds. 



Chinese Buddleia. 



Fig. 499. — Madagascar Buddleia. 



Soft ' Elder ' — Tecoma mollis — is less hardy and decidedly more 

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



Catdlpa. 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, Dwakf, or Rohnd-headed 

 Catalpa (492) — ■ Catalpa Biingei. In reality it is a dwarf variety of our 

 commonest American species of Indian Bean — Catalpa bignonioides. 

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

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

 vringed seeds which hang on through the winter. [Seeds.] 



ChiWpsis linearis. The so-called Desert ' Willow^ ' (493) , from Texas, 

 is a beautiful continuously blooming straggling shrub or small tree with 



