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ARBORETUM ET FRUTICETUM BRITANNICUM. 



6 in. to loin, 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 30 ft. 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. 



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 CATA'LPA Juss. The Catalpa. Lin. Syst. Diandria Monogynia. 



Identification. Juss. Gen., 138., ed. Usteri, p. 1.55. ; Don's Mill., 4. p. 230. 



Synonynies. Bigndm'a sp. of Lin. and others ; Bignone Catalpa, Fr. ; gemeine Trompetenblume, 



Ger. 

 Deriiiation. The Indian name of a species of BignbniVi. 



Gen. Char., Sfc. 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. Slig7na bilamellate. Capside silique-fonned, long, cylin- | 

 drical, 2-valved. Dissepiment opposite the valves. Seeds merabranously | 

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



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

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

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

 seeds or cuttings of the roots. 



5^ 1. C. SYRiNGM^o^iAk Sims. The Lilac-/iAe-leaved Catalpa. , 



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



Syiionymes. Bignbnea Catalpa Lin. Sp., 868. ; Catalpa bignonioides Walt. Fl. Car. p. 64. ; C. 



1289. Catdlpa tyringxfblia. 



eordifoliii Nutt. Gen. Amer. 1. p. 10. ; Bois Shavanon, Catalpa de I'Araerique, Fr. ; Trompe 

 baum, Ger. ; Catalpa-boom, Dutch. 



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