BIGNONIACE.E. 



2. T. grandiflora, Delaun. Chinese Trumpet-flow 



Climbing, smooth; leaves unequally pinnate ; leaflets 3 to 5 pairs, oratc-a 

 Date, dentate-serrate; pmicle terminal; pedicels nodding, biglandular; 

 tmbe Bfcaroely longer than th • 5-eleft calyx. Native of China and Japan. Flowers 

 of a rich scarlet, shorter ani broader than in T. rail 



2. CATALPA, Scop., Walt Indian Bean, 



The aboriginal nam'?. 



Calyx deeply 2-lipped. Corolla bell-shaped, swelling ; 

 the irregular border 5-lobcd, spreading, wavy. Stamens 5, 

 but mostly only 2 of them anther-bearing. Pod very long 

 and slender, nearly cylindrical, 2-celled, the partitions con- 

 trary to the valves. Seeds in a single row in each cell,- 

 . ily winged on- each side, the wings cut into a fringe. — 

 s with simple opposite or tcrnnte- cerUcdlate petiolateh < 

 and terminal panicles of while flowers* 



1. C. bigxonioides, Walt. CalaJpa. 



I.- / - he irt-sb iped, membranaceous, pointed, d . . 



an 1 panicles : calyx-lips mucraaat '. 



Satire of the South, but naturalized along the Schuylkill near Philadelphia. 



Jane. A trell known ornamental tree grow.ng from 15 to 30 t et high, with ;w 



and comparativelyvfew branches. Leavei large, ', 



ightiy tinged with violet ai ith purple and yollcw in 



tho throst. PoJ remaining on the tree until tho following spring, often lfbotloag. 



Site-order ir. SE3A3IEJE. The Sesamtjm Family*. 



2 : or fi&sky an.l woody fru'.t fjhtl'j -1 to 5 called : seeds urinjlest. 



8, MAPtTYXIA, Linn. Unicorn Plant. 



In honor of Prof. John M/riyn of Cambridge, Bag. IT 



Calyx 5-cleft. Corolla gibbous, bell-shaped, 5-lobed,*. 

 irregular. Stamens 5, one sterile, 4 didynamous. Capsule 

 fleshy, and with the inner part soon becomes woody, termi- 

 nated by a long beak, which at length splits into 2 hooked 

 horns, the capsule opening at the apex between the beaks, 

 imperfectly 5 -celled J Seeds several, wingless, with a thick 

 and spongy roughened coat. — Low branching annuals, clam- 

 my pubescent, exhaling a heavy odor, with opposite, petiolatc, 

 subcordate roundish leaves, and large racerned flowers. 



1. M. probosctdea, Glox. Crowsjnir. 



Leaves heart-shaped, oblique, or undulate, the upper alternate ; jUsvccrz en long/ . 

 axillary peduncles; 6ca/.s much longer than the capsule. 



Dank? of the Susquehanna, near Harrisburg. Jury— Sept. Stem 1 to 2 feet high. 

 CKiroiUi large, pale, dull-yellow, the limb nearly as Iroad as the kayes. tinged or > 



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