io 5 DIANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. 
genus Lindernia extends from the mountains of New 
Hampshire to the West India islands. 
16. CATALPA. Jussieu. BicNonta Catalpa. Lin. 
(Catalpa-tree.) 
Cali 2-parted. Corolla campanulate, tube 
ventricose, border 4 lobed, unequal. Stamina 2, 
fertile, filaments 3, sterile. Stigma bilamellate. 
~ Capsule siliqueeform, long, cylindric, 2-valved; 
_ Dissepiment opposite to the valves. Seed mem- 
_ branaceously margined and tufted at the extre- 
‘Trees with simple leaves, verticillate in threes; flowers 
paniculate. - 
pan.) Rarely to be met with decidedly indigenous in the 
United States, and appears to have been introduced by 
- -* the aborigines; hence its name of “ Catawba,” derived 
2 from a tribe of Indians residing on the Catawba river. In 
; most of the habitats of this tree given by the younger 
=. Michaux in his “* Arbres Forestiers,” which I have vi- 
sited, if existing at all, it had evidently been introduc- 
ed. 1 am informed, however, by Governor Harrison, of 
3 indubitable existence of this tree in very considera- 
___ ble quantities in the forests of the Wabash, Ilinois Terri- 
tory, where its wood is even split for rails; still even here 
it is extremely local, and I have never once met with it 
either on the banks of the Ohio, the Missisippi, or the Mis- 
souri, rivers which I have, ascended or descended thou- 
sands of miles. In the warmer states it does not appear 
to grow with any degree of vigour. 
There is another species of this génus.in the West In- 
_ dia islands, viz. the Bignonia longissima, a tree producing 
- very hard wood, which is not liable to be destroyed by 
common also to the C. cordifolia. 
adie Michaux. TuBirLoRa. Gme- 
___ Calix coriaceous, 4-parted; the anterior divi- 
sion cleft. Corolla 5-cleft; lamina nearly equal. 
Two of the filaments without anthers. Stigmata 
_ ligulate. Capsule oblong, 2-celled, 2-valveds 
Species. 1. C. cordifolia, (said also to be anative of Ja- 
worms or insects. Perhaps the same properties may be — 
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