Catalpa 1487 



There are many trees of considerable age, but of no great height, in parks and 

 places^ in and around London, the best known of which was one at Gray's Inn, which 

 died a few years ago. This Catalpa was reported by tradition to have been brought 

 from America by Sir W. Raleigh, and to have been planted by Bacon ; but there 

 is no good authority for this, and the tree is not long-lived in England. 



At Ham Manor, near Arundel, I saw a very well-shaped tree (Plate 350) in 

 1907 which measured 52 ft. by 7 ft. with a clean bole 15 ft. high. There is a tree at 

 Hey wood, Wilts, which, in 1906, was about 30 ft. high and 15 ft. in girth below 

 the branches. A photograph sent me by the then gardener, Mr. Robinson, 

 showed it in full flower as a very beautiful tree. Another at Elbridge, as measured 

 by Mr. Furze in 1904, was 41 ft. high, 14 ft. in girth, and had a spread of 61 ft. 

 A fine old tree at Wilton House, Wilts, was, when I saw it in 1906, showing signs of 

 decay, but measured 53 ft. by 6J ft. (H. J. E.) 



CATALPA KAEMPFERI 



Catalpa Kaempferi, Siebold and Zuccarini, in Abhand. Akad. Miinchen, iv. pt. ii. p. 142 (1846); 



J. D. Hooker, Bot. Mag. t. 6611 (1882); Lavallde, Icon. Arb. Hort. Segrez. 33, t. 10 (1885); 



Hemsley, in fourfi. Linn. Soc. {Bot.) xxvi. 235 (1890); Bureau, in Nouv. Arch. Mus. Nat. 



Hist. vi. 190 (1894). 

 Catalpa ovata^ G. Don, Gen. Syst. iv. 230 (1837); Sargent, Silva N. Amer. vi. 84, note (1894). 

 Catalpa Bungei, Decaisne, in Rev. Hort. v. 406 (1851) (not C. A. Meyer); Carribre, in Flore des 



Serres, viii. 8 (1852) ; Jacques, in Flore des Serres, x. 188 (1855). 

 Catalpa Henryi, Dode, in Bull Soc. Dend. France, i. 199 (1907). 

 Bignonia Catalpa, Thunberg, Fl. Jap. 251 (1784) (not Linnaeus). 



A tree, attaining 70 ft. in height ; bark brown, slightly fissured. Young 

 branchlets with numerous sessile glands and scattered stiff glandular hairs.^ 

 Leaves (Vol. UL Plate 204, Fig. 6) without a disagreeable or peculiar odour, ovate, 

 variable in size, averaging 5 to 6 in. in width and length, cordate at the base, shortly 

 acuminate at the apex ; rarely entire, usually with one or two (occasionally three or 

 four) triangular sharp-pointed lateral lobes ; upper surface covered with a minute 

 pubescence, the nerves often purple and with scattered long hairs ; lower surface 

 pubescent on the nerves and veinlets ; petiole with glands and glandular hairs, as 

 on the branchlets. 



Flowers numerous in much-branched panicles, which are 4 to 9 in. long ; calyx 

 glabrous; corolla pale yellow, about \ in. long and broad, marked externally with 

 two orange bands and numerous purple spots. Fruit, 7 to 12 in. long, cylindrical, 

 \ in. in diameter, with a thin wall, splitting into two concave valves. Seeds, \ in. 



1 Mr. Hugh Boyd Watt, in an article on Catalpas in London and neighbourhood, which appeared in The Field, Feb. 

 17, 1912, states that there was abundance of fruit in the autumn of 191 1 on the trees in Victoria Embankment gardens, 

 Brunswick Square, Hampstead, Richmond, Kew, and Syon House. Six large trees in Palace Yard, Westminster, bore no 

 fruit, though they flowered in the preceding summer. There was no fruit formed in 1909 and 1910; but there was a, good 

 crop in 1906. 



* This is the oldest name of the species ; but it has never been in use. 



^ These peculiar hairs, which are characteristic of this species, are deciduous in the course of the season. 



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