


ADJACENT TO HORTICULTURAL HALL, 9 

BIGNONIACE, Bignonia Family. 
Usually woody plants, with conspicuous, irregular flowers; fruit mostly a 
pod containing many flat, winged seeds. The family is absent from Europe 
and the Mediterranean region, but largely developed in the warmer parts of 
the two Americas. Some species yield dyes, others timber, and a few produce 
Bignonia capreolata, Zinneus. Cross-Vine. Climbing shrub, native to 
a f the Southern United States, with rich orange-colored flowers 2 inches long; 
4 leaves made up of 4 ovate leaflets and a branched tendril. The popular name 
2) comes from a rude Maltese cross being found on a transverse section of the 
: stem. 
Catalpa. Trees with simple leaves and white or yellowish-white flowers 
(which may be somewhat dotted within) in large pyramidal clusters; pod long, 
slender, nearly straight, with the partition at right angles to the valves. 
Catalpa bignonioides, Walter. Tree native of the Southeastern States; 
bark light gray, exfoliating constantly, and hence not more than three lines 
thick; leaves heart-shaped, and with an unpleasant odor when bruised ; flowers 
124 inches in each diameter, with the lower lobe entire; seeds 2% to 3 lines 
of wide. Long confounded with the following: 
_Catalpa speciosa, Warder. Tree native of the Mississippi Valley from 
Illinois south ; bark dark, only exfoliating slightly ; %4 to 1 inch thick; leaves 
inodorous, slender-pointed; “flowers 2 inches in the vertical and a little 
more in the transverse diameter ;” fruit 344 to 4 lines wide. Tree larger than 
the preceding, of more straight growth, and wood of great value as posts and 
railroad-ties from its imperishable character. It is now largely planted in the 
West to meet those demands in future. 
Catalpa Kaempferi, ? From Japan. Leaves smooth, 3-angled or 
lobed, and flowers much smaller than those of the preceding species. 

Catalpa Bungei, ——? A lately-introduced dwarf, with stout branches 
and very large leaves. 
Tecoma. TRUMPET-FLOWER, TRUMPET-CREEPER. The species we have 
differ from Bignonia in having a 5-toothed calyx, pods flattened at right angles 
to the partitions, and in climbing by rootlets instead of by tendrils. Some 
unimportant uses are made of certain tropical species. 
Tecoma grandiflora, De/aun. CHINESE TRUMPET-CREEPER. A culti- 
vated species from China and Japan; wide-mouthed flower, 3 inches long. 
This is about the northern limit of its hardiness in this country. Called in 
cultivation Bignonia grandiflora. 
Tecoma radicans, Yussieu. AMERICAN TRUMPET-CREEPER. Native 
from Maryland south; flower tubular funnel-shaped,—i.¢., narrower than the 
preceding. Called by florists Bignonia radicans. 

