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rounded at the base and usually long-pointed; its numerous, 
linear round pods are about a foot long and only about one- 
eighth of an inch in diameter. 
The essential differences between ‘hts Catalpa longissima and 
our northern typical Catalpas are seen in its narrow eves) and 
in its seeds, which are narrowly linear, long-att end 
and densely clothed with long white fates, The accompanyin 
penne (Plate 209) is from a photograph of a characteristic 
Dr. Marshall A. Howe at Hope Gardens, Jamaica 
in ene 
The piel Cotas have broad, ovate-orbicular leaves and 
their seeds have a flat wing which is fimbriate at the 
I accept the eee name Macrocatalpa, Sisihel by Grise- 
bach, as a generic name; the tree of Jamaica and Hispaniola 
would thus be called, botanically, Macrocatalpa longissima 
and be the type of the genus 
There are two congeners of this tree at present known. 
ibed by A. 
c m foliage and pods, classified 
it, doubealty: in the family eee under the name 
Echites (?) macrocarpa, a name previously used, however, for an 
an cucnne pee ae by Wallich. Subsequent col- 
the tree to be related to the ‘‘ French 
Oak” of Jamaica, and it was redescribed by Grisebach in 1866 as 
Catalpa punctata.{| This tree is much smaller than the ‘French 
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stalked leaves two to three inches long, strongly netted-veined 
* In Sagra, Hist. Cub. 12:94. 1850. 
+ Cat. Pl. Cub. 
