124 Field IVIanual 



75. Forestiera Poir. Adelia. 



Shrubs or small trees with simple, opposite, pinnately 

 veined, usually serrate leaves ; vc^ith brown twigs ; and usually 

 with thorns and superposed buds. 



Flowers dieciuos or imperfectly nionosporangiatc, in 

 fascicles, or paniculate, from scaly buds ; fruit a drupe. • 



1. Forestiera acuminata (Mx.) Poir. Adelia. A shrub 

 or small tree usually with somewhat thorny branches. Wood 

 heavy, soft, yellowish-brown, not strong. On river banks. 

 Ind. to Ga., Mo., Ark., and Tex. 



Order, Scrophulariales. 



Scrophulariaceae. Figwort Family. 



76. Paulownia Sieb. & Zucc. Paulownia. 



Trees with opposite petioled, palmately veined, simple 

 leaves; with superposed axillary buds; and with large white 

 pith, sometimes with cavities. 



Flowers in large panicles, bisporangiate, zygomorphic, 

 tetracylic; stamens 4; fruit a capsule with numerous winged 

 seeds. 



1. Paulownia tomentosa (Thumb.) Baill. Paulownia. 

 A large rapid-growing tree with violet flowers in terminal 

 panicles. Native of Japan; escaped from cultivation. N. Y. 

 and N. J. to Ga. 



Bignoniaceae. Trumpet-creeper Family. 

 77. Catalpa Scop. Catalpa. 



Trees with opposite or whorled, simple leaves with entire 

 margins and with prominent green glands in the axils of the 

 veins on the lower side. 



Flowers large, white or mottled, in terminal panicles or 

 corymbs, bisporangiate, zygomorphic; stamens usually 2 with 3 

 prominent vestiges ; capsule long and bean-like with numerous 

 winged seeds. 



1. Young twigs glabrous or nearly so, leaf-blades downy 

 below; flowers large, white, with 2 yellow stripes 

 inside and spotted purplish brown. 2. 



