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BIGNONIACE^l. 



206. Catalpa bignonioides, Walter, 



Fl. Caroliniana, 64. De Candolle, Prodr. ix, 226. Darlington, Fl. Cestrica, 3 ed. 182. Cooper in Smithsonian Rep. 1858, 253. Chapman, 

 Fl. S. States, 285. Curtis in Rep. Geological Surv. N. Carolina, 1860, iii, 50. Wood, Cl. Book, 513; Bot. & Fl. 218. Bureau, Mon. 

 Bignoniaceae, t. 25. Gray, Manual N. States, 5 ed. 321, in part ; Syn. Fl. N. America, ii 1 , 319, in part. Koch, Dendrologie, ii, 302. 

 Young, Bot. Texas, 385. Vasey, Cat. Forest Trees, 19, in part. Guibourt, Hist. Drogues, 7 ed. ii, 548. 



Bignonid Catalpa, Linnaeus, Spec. 1 cd. 622 (excl. syn.). Lamarck, Diet, i, 417. Marshall, Arbustnm, 21. Wangenheira, 

 Amer. 58, t. 20, f. 45. Willdenow, Spec, iii, 289 ; Enum. (>49. Michaux, Fl. Bor.-Am. ii, 25. Desibntaines, Hist. Arb. 

 i, 189. Michaux f. Hist. Arb. Am. iii, 217, t. 6 ; N. American Sylva, 3 ed. ii, 55, t. 64. Bartou, Prodr. Fl. Philadelph. 

 66. Rafinesque, FL Ludoviciana, 159. Porcher, Resources S. Forests, 460. Mauut & Decaiaue, Bot. English ed. 602 

 &f. 



C. COrdifolia, Jaume St. Hilaire in Nouveau Duhamel, ii, 13, in part (excl. t. 5). Barton, Compend. Fl. Philadelph. i, 9. 

 Nuttall, Genera, i, 10. Elliott, Sk. i, 24. Torrey, Fl. U. S. i, 16; Compend. Fl. N. States, 20. Beck, Bot. 245. 

 Eaton, Manual, 6 ed. 85. Darlington, Fl. Cestrica, 2 ed. 363. Spach, Hist. Veg. ix, 1*2. Eaton & Wright, Bot. 184. 

 Darby, Bot. S. States, 439. 



G. syringaifolia, Sims, Bot. Mag. t. 1094. Schkuhr, Handb. t. 175. Alton, Hort. Kew. 2 ed. i, 24. Pursh. Fl. Am. Sept. 

 i, 10. Eaton, Manual, 8; 6 ed. 85. Meyer, Prim. Fl. Esseq. 3. Hayne, Dend. Fl. 2. Loddiges, Bot. Cab. t. 1285. 

 Sprengel, Syst. i, 70. Sertum Botanicum, i, t. Lindley, Fl. Med. 499; Penn. Cycl. vi,363. Don, Miller's Diet, iv, 230. 

 London, Arboretum, iii, 1261 & t. Dietrich, Syn. i, 82. Nuttall, Sylva, iii, 77 ; 2 ed. ii, 140. Torrey, Fl. N. York, ii, 25. 

 Browne, Trees of America, 406. 



C. COmmunis, Du Mont, Bot. Cult. 2 ed. iii, 242. 



CATALPA. CATAWBA. BEAN TEEE. CIGAR TREE. INDIAN BEAN. 



Southwestern Georgia, valleys of the Little and Apalachicola rivers, western Florida, and through central 

 Alabama and Mississippi. 



A low, much-branched tree, 12 to 15 meters in height, with a trunk 0.50 to 0.75 meter in diameter ; borders of 

 streams and swamps, in rich loam ; rare and local ; long cultivated for ornament, and now extensively naturalized 

 throughout the middle and southern Atlantic states. 



Wood light, soft, not strong, coarse-grained, compact, very durable ; layers of annual growth clearly marked 

 by many rows of large open ducts ; medullary rays numerous, obscure ; color, light brown, the thin (one or two 

 years') sap-wood lighter, often nearly white; specific gravity, 0.4474; ash, 0.38; used and highly valued for fence 

 posts, rails, etc.; a reputed emetic. 



A decoction of the seeds and dried bark occasionally used in cases of asthma and bronchitis (Am. Jour. Pharm. 

 xlii, 204. C7. 8. Dispensatory, 14 ed. 1608. Nat. Dispensatory, 2 ed. 367). 



207. Catalpa speciosa, Warder; 



Engelmaun in Coulter's Bot. Gazette, v, 1. Sargent in London Gard. Chronicle 1879, 784. Ridgway in Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1862, 70. 

 Barnes in Coulter's Bot. Gazette, ix, 74. 



C. COrdifolia, Jaume St. Hilaire in Nouveau Duhamel, ii, 13, in part, t. 5. Nuttall in Trails. Am. Phil. Soc. 2 ser. v, 183. 



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C. bignonioides, Lesquereux in Owen's 2d Rep. Arkansas, 375 [not Walter.] Gray, Manual N. States, 5 ed. 321, in part ; 

 Syn. Fl. N. America, ii 1 , 319, in part. Vasey, Cat. Forest Trees, 19, in part. Broadhead in Coulter's Bot. Gazette, iii, 59. 



WESTERN CATALPA. 



Valley of the Vermilion river, Illinois, through southern Illinois and Indiana, western Kentucky and Tennessee, 

 southeastern Missouri and western Arkansas. 



A tree 20 to 35 or, exceptionally, 45 meters in height (Eidgicay), with a trunk 1 to 2 meters in diameter; borders 

 of streams and swamps, in rich bottom lands; common and reaching its greatest development in the valley of the 

 lower Wabash river; cultivated and now widely naturalized through southern Arkansas, western Louisiana, and 

 eastern Texas. 



Wood light, soft, not strong, coarse-grained, compact, very durable in contact with the soil ; layers of annual 

 growth clearly marked by several rows of large open ducts ; medullary rays numerous, obscure ; color, brown, the 

 thin sap-wood lighter ; specific gravity, 0.4165 ; ash, 0.39 ; largely used for railway ties, fence posts, rails, etc., and 

 adapted for cabinet work and interior finish. 



