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signs of becoming a timber tree. I agree entirely with the opinion that Mr. Bean 

 has expressed in Kew Bulletin, 1907, p. 43, that it is improbable that this tree can 

 be grown anywhere in England with any hope of profit, though as an ornamental 

 tree of small size it may have considerable value in favourable situations. 



A plantation of it was made near Tottenham House, Marlborough, by the 

 Marquess of Ailesbury, where the young trees in 1907 were 3 to 6 ft. high, but 

 so far as we can learn they grow slowly and do not ripen their wood in autumn, 

 which is the case with those I have raised myself. (H. J. E.) 



CATALPA BIGNONIOIDES, Common Catalpa 



Catalpa bignonioides, Walter, Fl. Car. 64 (1788); Bureau, in Nouv. Archiv. Mus. Hist. Nat. vi. 



175 (1894) ; Dode, in Bull. Soc. Dendr. France, i. 194 (1907); Sargent, in Bot. Gaz. xliv. 226 



(1907). 

 Catalpa cordifolia, Moench, Meth. 464 (1794); Nuttall, Gen. N. Amer. Fl. i. 10 (1818). 

 Catalpa communis, Dumont de Courset, Bot. Cult. ii. 189 (1802). 

 Catalpa syringifolia, Sims, in Bot. Mag} t. 1094 (1808); Loudon, Arb. et Frut. Brit. iii. 1261 



(1838). 

 Catalpa Catalpa, Karsten, Pharm. Med. Bot. 927 (1882); Sargent, Silva N. Amer. vi. 86, tt. 288, 



289 (1894), and Trees N. Amer. 793 (1905). 

 Bignonia Catalpa, Linnaeus, Sp. Fl. 622 (1753) (in part). 



A tree, rarely attaining in America 60 ft. in height and 10 ft. in girth, usually 

 smaller. Bark separating on the surface into large thin irregular scales. Young 

 branchlets glabrous. Leaves (Vol. III., Plate 204, Fig. 5) emitting when bruised a 

 disagreeable odour, ovate, about 5 to 6 in. long, and 4 to 5 in. wide ; cordate, 

 truncate, or cuneate at the base, contracted into a slender acuminate point or rounded 

 at the apex, usually entire or occasionally with one or two slight lateral lobes, glabrous 

 above, pubescent with simple hairs on the nerves and veinlets beneath, the pubescence 

 on the midrib being confined to its edges close to the surface of the blade ; glandular 

 areas pale ; petioles glabrous. 



Flowers numerous in a compact panicle, about 8 to 10 in. long and broad ; calyx 

 glabrous, green or light purple; corolla white, i in. long and wide, marked on the 

 inner surface on the lower side by two rows of yellow blotches along two parallel 

 ridges or folds, and on the throat and lower lobes of the limb by numerous conspicuous 

 purple spots. Fruit, 6 to 20 in. long, \ to \ in. thick in the middle, with a thin wall, 

 splitting into two flat valves. Seeds about 1 in. long, \ in. wide, silvery grey, with 

 pointed wings, ending in long pencil-like tufts of white hairs. 



The following varieties have arisen in cultivation : 



1. Var. aurea, Lavallee, Arbor. Segrez. 175 (1877). 



Leaves pale yellow, retaining their colour throughout the season. One of the 

 best golden-leaved small trees 2 in cultivation. Its origin is unknown to me. 



2. Var. purpurea, Rehder, in Bailey, Cycl. Amer. Hort. i. 258 (1900). 



Leaves purplish, with dark purple glandular spots. It is said by Nicholson to 



1 The plate was drawn from a branch of a tree growing in Mr. Granger's garden at Exeter in 1808. 

 2 A specimen at Kew is figured in Gard. Mag. 1 9 10, p. 709. 



