BIGNONIACEAE. 341 
CaTALPA. Indian Bean. 
(Family Bignoniaceae). 
Small or moderate-sized trees: 
deciduous. Twigs stout, round: 
pith large, round, continuous, 
pale. Buds solitary, sessile, glo- 
bose, with some half-dozen. rather 
loose pointed scales, the end-bud 
lacking. Leaf-scars in whorls al- 
ternately of two large scars and 
one small scar, and one large scar 
and two small scars, round-ellipti- 
cal, raised; bundle-traces a dozen 
or so, compound, in an ellipse: 
stipule-scars lacking. The long 
terete pods, with thin ciliate 
seeds, persist, and afford import- 
ant specific characters. 
Winter-character references:— 
Catalpa bignonioides (C. syringae- 
folia; C. Catalpa). Blakeslee & 
Jarvis, 562; Bosemann, 67; Bren- 
del, 28, pl. 1; Otis, 226; Schnei- 
der, f. 15, 199. OC. ovata (C. Kaempferi). Schneider, f. 179; 
Shirasawa, 280, pl. 12. C. speciosa. Blakeslee & Jarvis, 329, — 
562, pl.; Hitchcock (3), 16; Otis, 224; Schneider, f. 199. 
1. Twigs and fruits (5 mm.) slender. (1). C. ovata. 
Twigs and capsules stouter. 2. 
2. Capsules moderate(8 mm.): seeds pointed. 
(2). C. bignonioides. 
Capsules thick (10 mm.): seeds truncate. (3)..C. speciosa. 
