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TRUMPET FLOWER. 
(Bignone. Fr.) 
Natural Order , Bignoniaceje, (R. Brown.) Linnczan ClaS' 
sification , Didynamia Angiospermia. 
TECOMA.* (Jussieu.) 
Calyx campanulate, 5 -toothed. Corolla with a short tube, towards the 
orifice campanulate, the border 5-lobed, unequal or bilabiate. Sta- 
mina 4, didynamous, with the rudiment of a 5th. Stigma bilamellate. 
Capsule long and cylindric, resembling a pod, 2-celled, with the dissepi- 
ment in a contrary direction with the valves. Seeds transversely dis- 
posed in a double series, imbricated and winged. 
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Very ornamental trees, or rarely shrubs, mostly climbing or twining, 
often producing hard and valuable wood, inhabiting the tropics of either 
hemisphere; the present species, {T. radicans)^ extending farther north 
than any other known. The leaves opposite, mostly unequally pinnate ; 
the flowers terminal, clustered, or paniculate, yellow or red. 
* From Tecomaxochitl , the aboriginal Mexican name of one of the spe- 
cies. 
