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ARBORETUM ET FRUTICETUM BRITANNICUM. 



6 in. to 10 in. long. Petioles marginate. Flowers pendulous, forming ter- 

 minal cross-armed panicles, large, of a tawny orange colour on the outside, 

 and of a tolerably bright reddish orange colour inside, with brighter streaks. 

 Nectary a glandular crenated ring. Anterior lobe of stigma recurved. 

 (Don's Mill.) A climbing deciduous shrub. China and Japan. Stem 20 ft. 

 to 30ft. Introduced in 1800. Flowers orange-coloured ; July and August. 

 Almost as hardy as Tecoma radicans, which it greatly resembles, but of a 



slighter habit, though it has much larger flowers, and is altogether a very 



splendid plant. 



GENUS III. 



CATA'LPA Juss. THE CATALPA. Lin. Syst. Diandria Monogjnia. 



Identification. Juss. Gen., 138., ed. Usteri, p. 155. ; Don's Mill., 4. p. '/30. 



Synonymes. Bigndnw sp. of Lin. and others ; Bignone Catalpa, Fr. ; gemeine Trompetenbluroe, 



Ger. 

 Derivation. The Indian name of a species of BSgnbm'dr. 



Gen. Char., fyc. Calyx 2-parted. Corolla campanulate, with a ventricose 

 tube, and an unequal 4-lobed limb. Stamens 5, 2 of which are fertile, and 

 3 of them sterile. Stigma bilumellate. Capsule silique-formed, long, cylin- 

 drical, 2-valved. Dissepiment opposite the valves. Seeds membranously 

 margined, and pappose at the base and apex. (Don's Mill.) 



Leaves simple, opposite, or disposed 3 in a whorl, exstipulate, deciduous ; 

 entire. Floivers terminal, panicled, white. A tree, deciduous ; native of 

 North America; of easy culture in common soil, and propagated by imported 

 seeds or cuttings of the roots. 



y I. C. SYRINGJEFO^I\ Sims. The Lilac-//7ce-leaved Catalpa. 



Identification. Sims Bot. Mag., t. 1094. ; Don's Mill., 4. p. 230. 



Synonymes. Bignbm'a Catalpa Lin. Sp., 868. ; Catalpa bignonipVe* Walt. Fl. Car. p. G4. ; C. 



cordifblia Null. Gen. Amer. 1. p. 10. ; Bois Shavanon, Catalpa de l'Amerique, Fr. ; Trompcten- 

 bauin, Ger. ; Catalpa-boom, Dutch. 



