17 

 4. f'ntnf.po /??/.?? r/r/, C. A. Mey. Native of Northern China. 



Leaves much smaller than in No. o\ oblong, ovate, 

 N/I a }>c(l 'if the i^/.sr.very gradually tapering in to a long, sharp 

 point. Flowers smaller than in the other species, color un- 

 known to me. hut prohably white. Fruit unseen by inc. 



(\ Hdiiiff/' is said to become a tree, but it only appears in 

 cultivation in this country as a spreading bush, eight to ten 

 feet high, and sometimes twenty feet in diameter. 1 have 

 never heard that it has flowered in this country, and I am 

 ignorant of the quality of the wood it may produce. 



C. S. SARGENT. 

 Canibridr. .I/*/**., D 



Dr. Warder's Report on the Catalpa. 



THE CATALl'A (JussiEr). 



Natural family HH.NONIACK.K. 



< renus Catalpa i.Jiiassieu ), Scopoli. Kndlicher. 



Synoniin : Bi^nonia (Michaux). 

 There are six species : 



1. Oatalpa Bignonioides (Walter)* I', s. 



Syn.: Syrinu'd't'olia (Sims, 1'ui'slii. 



Qordifolia (Nnttall, Elliott, Jhihamel). 



l^i.irnonia ('atal]>a (Michanx, Willdenow, Linnanis). 



1>. Amei-icana ( Duhamel). 



Kavvarra Fisaira ( Iv;i'in])fer). afcrorcliiiff to Siemonip. 



2. ( 'atalpa lonirissiiiia ; \V. Indies. 



Syn.: (\ lonu-isili<iua. 

 .'!. Catalpa punetata; W. Indies. 

 4. ('atalpa hirsnta; Hraxil. 

 o. Catalpa Butogei ; China. 

 0. Catalpa K;i'in|>l'eri ; .Japan. 



This conspectus is after Hooker ami other botanists of eminence, and 

 was prepared with the valuable assistance of Messrs. ( ieo. Yasey, A. P. 

 Morgan, and others. 



Our own native Catalpa, or Catalpas, alone are now to he considered. 

 This report will relate to their ran^r and habitats in nature, and indicate 

 the limits to which the trees have been extended by human agency in 

 our own and other countries. Reference will also be made to the char- 



