Tas. 6611. 
CATALPA KuMPrert. 
Native of Japan. 
Nat. Ord. Branontacex.—Tribe Branontex. 
Genus CataLpa, Juss.; (Benth. et Hook. f. Pl. Gen. vol. ii. p. 1041.) 
Catatpa Kempfert; arbor ramis horizontalibus, ramulis annotinis viridibus 
glandulosis, foliis longe petiolatis late ovatis acuminatis basi rotundatis y. 
cordatis szepissime inaequilateralibus integris angulatis vy. 2-3-lobis lobo medio 
attenuato-acuminato lateralibus brevibus divergentibus nervis superne pilosis 
inferne scabris v. glabris, paniculis terminalibus, floribus gracile pace re 
calycis labiis integris rotundatis, corolla tubo campanulato limbi 2-labiati Jobis 
5 rotundatis marginibus crispatis, capsula pedali cylindracea, seminibus com- 
planatis alatis villosis utrinque in caudas capillaceo-fissas productis. 
C. Kempferi, Sieb. et Zuce. Fl. Japon. Sect. alt. p. 18; Ill. Hortic, 1862, t. 319; 
Miquel Prolus. Fl. Jap. p. 286; Lavailée Ic. Sel. Arb. et Frut. Hort. 
Segrez. p. 33, t. 10, 
C. bignonioides, Walt. var. Kempferi, DC. Prodr. vol. ix. p. 226. 
C. ovata, G. Don Gen. Syst. vol. iv. p. 230. 
C. Bungei, Hort. (non C. A. Mey.). 
C, himalayensis, Hort. 
Bienonta Catalpa, Thunb. Fl. Jap. p. 257. 
This is the Japanese representative and close ally of the 
Eastern American Catalpa syringefolia, Sims (Plate 1094 
of this work), and one of the most striking of the many 
instances of that intimate relationship, due to common 
origin, of the plants of the Atlantic United States and 
Eastern America, which is not shared by the plants of the 
Pacific Coast States. It has been beautifully figured and 
fully described in M. Lavallée’s “ Icones Selectwe Arborum 
et Fruticum in Hortis Segrezianis collectorum,” where we 
are informed that, though found in various parts of Japan, 
it is not certainly indigenous in any. It was discovered 
by Kempfer in 1693, and introduced into Belgium by seed 
in 1849. It has proved perfectly hardy, and though not 
attaining the stature and size of leaf and flower of the C. 
MARCH Ist, 1882. 
