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KEY AND FLORA 
91. BIGNONIACEZ. Branonta Famity 
Trees or shrubs, often twining or climbing, rarely herbs. 
Leaves usually opposite, without stipules. Flowers showy, 
zygomorphic. Corolla tubular, with a widened throat and a 
5-lobed limb. Stamens usually 2 long and 2 short, or only 2. 
Ovary free from the calyx, 2-celled or rarely 1-celled, with 
many ovules. Fruit a capsule ; seeds large, winged. 
I. TECOMA Juss. 
Woody vines, climbing by aérial rootlets. Leaves compound, 
odd-pinnate. Flowers large, in terminal clusters. Calyx bell- 
shaped, unequally 5-toothed. Corolla funnelform, enlarged 
above the calyx, 5-lobed, slightly 2-hpped. Stamens 4, 2 long 
and 2 short. Capsule slender, spindle-shaped, slightly com- 
pressed contrary to the partition, 2-valved, dehiscent. Seeds 
winged.* 
1. T. radicans Juss. Truuper Frower,-TRuMPET CREEPER. 
Stems chinbing high by numerous rootlets; bark shreddy. Leaves 
deciduous, petioled ; leaflets 9-11, ovate to ovate-lanceolate, ser- 
rate, short -stalked, smooth or shehtly downy. Flowers in’ short, 
terminal racemes or corynibs. Calyx tubular, ? in. long. Corolla 2-3 
in. Jong, searlet without, yellow within, the lobes spreading. Capsule 
5-6 in. long, eurved, often persistent through the winter. Seeds 
broadly winged. On borders of fields and in woods $.; often cul- 
tivated.* 
Il. CATALPA Scop. 
Small trees. Leaves large, opposite, simple, petioled, decid- 
nous. Flowers large and showy, in terminal panicles. Calyx 
irregularly 2-lipped. Corolla tubular-bell-shaped, oblique, 5- 
lobed, 2-lipped. Fertile stamens 2, sterile stamens 8, short. 
Fruit a linear, 2-valved, many-seeded capsule. Seeds winged.* 
1. C. bignonioides Walt. Cararra. <A small tree with thin, 
rough gray bark, and light, soft ut exceedingly durable wood. 
Leaves long-petioled, heart-shaped, entire or palmately 3-lobed, 
taper-pointed at the apex, palmately veined, downy. Branches of 
the panicle in threes; flowers large, 1-14 in. long, white, variegated 
with yellow and purple. Corolla lobes undulate or erisped. Capsule 
