CATALPA 313 



Native of Yunnan, China; sent to Kew by Mr Maurice de Vilmorin in 

 1908. It appears to be quite distinct from any other Catalpa previously 

 cultivated, in its pink flowers. It resembles C. Bungei in its smooth leaves, 

 young wood, and inflorescence ; but differs in its usually entire leaves 

 and branching inflorescence. According to Pere Ducloux, it is a large tree, 

 frequently planted by, the Chinese round pagodas. 



C. FARGESII, Bureau. 



(? C. vestita, Diels.~) 



A tree 20 to 30 ft. high, the shoots, under-surface of the leaves, and 

 inflorescences covered with velvety, branching hairs which mostly fall away 

 by the end of the season. Leaves broadly ovate, straight or slightly heart- 

 shaped at the base, long and taper-pointed, 3 to 6 ins. long, 2 to 5 ins. wide ; 

 stalk i^ to 4 ins. long. Flowers i^ ins. long and nearly as wide, pinkish, 

 spotted in and round the throat with brownish red, and produced seven 

 to fifteen together in corymbs. Calyx velvety ; corolla bell-shaped, with 

 five rounded, frilled lobes, and about i ins. across. Seed-pod, 12 to 18 ins. 

 long, very slender. 



Native of W. China ; introduced to France towards the end of last 

 century. It is allied to C. Duclouxii, and its leaves are similar in size and 

 shape, but the stellate down on the juvenile parts renders it quite distinct. 

 It was named from specimens collected by Pere Farges in Szechuen, where 

 it has also been found by Henry. Wilson found it later in Hupeh. It 

 has not yet flowered in cultivation. 



C. OVATA, G. Don. 



(C. Ksempferi, Siebold; Bot. Mag., t. 66 II.) 



A tree usually 20 to 30, sometimes 40 ft. high, with a spreading head 

 of branches as much or more in diameter. Leaves 5 to 10 ins. long, and 

 as much wide ; broadly ovate with a heart-shaped base, often conspicuously 

 three-lobed, each lobe with a short, slender point ; pale green and at 

 first finely downy above, permanently downy especially on the veins beneath ; 

 stalk 2 to 6 ins. long. Panicles 4 to 10 ins. high, narrowly pyramidal, 

 produced in July and August. Corolla dull white stained with yellow and 

 spotted with red inside, about i in. long and wide, the base bell-shaped ; of 

 the spreading lobes the lower one is the largest. Seed-vessel 12 ins. long, \ in. 

 diameter. 



Native of China ; introduced from Japan to Europe by Siebold in 1849. 

 If not a native of Japan, it has for centuries been cultivated there ; Kaempfer 

 recorded it in 1693. From the two American species it is distinguished 

 by its more conspicuously lobed leaves and smaller flowers, and from 

 C. Bungei by the larger, downy leaves and smaller flowers. 



Var. FLAVESCENS (C. Wallichii). Flowers even smaller than in the type 

 (about | in. long and wide), the whole corolla suffused with yellow. The 

 names Wallichii and himalayensis by which it has been known would suggest 

 a Himalayan origin, but no Catalpa is known to be native of that region. 



Var. PURPUREA. Leaves and young shoots dark purple, almost black, 

 when quite young. The colour largely disappears with age from the leaf- 

 blade, but it always remains darker than in the type ; the leaf-stalks retain it. 

 There is grown in nurseries a Catalpa known as 



C. JAPONICA, which was introduced from Japan about 1886, closely allied to 

 C. ovata, but distinguished by its narrower, more compact and pyramidal 



