BIGNONIACE^. 



Nat. syst. ed. 2. p. 282. 



CATALPA. 



Calyx 2-parted. Corolla campanulate, with a ventricose tube, 

 and a 4-lobed unequal limb. Stamens 5, of which 3 are sterile. 

 Stigma of 2 plates. Capsule siliquose, 2-valved, with a loculi- 

 cidal dehiscence. Seeds with a lacerated fringed membrane 

 at each end. 



1037. C. syringifolia Sims Bot. Mag. t. 1094. — C. cordifolia 

 Elliott bot. of Car. i. 24. Bignonia Catalpa Linn. sp. pi. 868. 

 — Southern States of the American Union. 



A tree with a round spreading head, growing from 30 to 40 feet high. 

 Leaves in threes, very broad, acuminate, cordate, smooth above, downy 

 beneath j with a petiole 6 inches long. Panicle large, pyramidal, a foot 

 long. Segments of the calyx, obovate, concave, mucronate, permanent. 

 Corolla large, white ; the tube campanulate, veined with purple and 

 spotted with yellow inside ; limb unequal, 5-lobed, with crenated lobes. 

 The 2 fertile stamens as long as the corolla. Capsule cylindrical, above 

 a foot long. — A decoction of the pods is used in Italy as a remedy for 

 catarrhal dyspnoea and coughs. Gard. Mag. xiii. 524. According to 

 Kaempfer a nearly allied species, or perhaps the same, found in Japan has 

 extremely bitter leaves and bark, and a decoction of the pods is em- 

 ployed in asthmatic complaints j the leaves are also used for foment- 

 ations. 



1038. Bignonia antisyphilitica, Mart. 



The bark of the younger branches of this tree is considered in Brazil 

 one of the most powerful remedies against syphilitic swellings, which 

 are of a malignant character. The decoction is chiefly used, and also 

 the bark dried and pounded, externally. 



PEDALIACE^. 



Nat. syst. ed. 2. p. 281. 



1038 a. Sesamum indi- 



cum Linn. 

 1038 b. Pedalium Mu- 



rex Linn. 



have mucilaginous leaves, and the 

 seeds, like linseed, yield a mucila- 

 ginous meal used in India for poul- 

 tices. 



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