66 VERBENACE.E. Catalpa. 



207. Catalpa speciosa, Warder. 

 Western Catalpa. 



Southern Illinois and Indiana, western Kentucky and Tennessee to 

 southeastern Missouri and western Arkansas. 



A tree 20 to 3a or, exceptionally, 45 metres in height, with a trunk 

 1 to 2 metres in diameter ; borders of streams and swamps, on rich bottom- 

 lands ; common and reaching its greatest development in the valley of the 

 lower Wabash River ; cultivated and now widely naturalized in southern 

 Arkansas, western Louisiana, and eastern Texas. 



Wood light, soft, not strong, coarse-grained, compact, very durable in 

 contact with the soil ; lavers of animal growth clearly marked by several 

 rows of large open ducts ; medullary rays numerous, obscure ; color 

 brown, the thin sap-wood lighter; largely used for railway-ties, fence- 

 posts, rails, etc., and adapted for cabinet work and interior finish. 



208. Chilopsis saligna, D. Don. 

 Desert Vifline. 



Valley of the Rio Grande, Texas, and west through southern New 

 Mexico and Arizona to southern California ; in northern Mexico. 



A small tree, 6 to 8 metres in height, with a trunk sometimes 0.30 

 metre in diameter; slopes and banks of depressions and water-courses in 

 the desert ; the large specimens generally hollow and defective. 



Wood light, soft, not strong, close-grained, checking in drying, con- 

 taining many scattered small open ducts; the lavers of annual growth 

 marked by several rows of larger ducts ; medullary rays numerous, ob- 

 scure ; color brown streaked with yellow, the sap-wood much lighter. 



209. Crescentia cucurbitina, L. 

 Black Calabash-tree. 



Semi-tropieal Florida. — near Miami, and on Little River: in the 

 West Indies. 



A small tree, in Florida rarely exceeding metres in height, with a 

 trunk 0.10 to 0.12 metre in diameter. 



Wood heavy, hard, very close-grained, compact, containing many small 

 regularly distributed open duets : medullary rays thin, hardly distinguish- 

 able ; color light brown tinged with orange, the sap-wood lighter. 



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210. Citharexylum villosum, Jacq. 

 Fiddle-wood. 

 Semi-tropical Florida, — Cape Canaveral to the southern keys ; in the 

 West Indies and Mexico. 



