662 ARBORETUM ET FRUTICETUM BRITANNICUM. 
6in.to 10in. long. Petioles marginate. Flowers pendulous, forming ter- 
minal cross-armed panicles, large, of a tawny orange colour on the outside, 
and ofa 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 30ft. Introduced in 1800. Flowers orange-coloured; July and August. 
Almost as hardy as Técoma 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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CATALPA Juss. Tur Cararpa. Lin. Syst. Diandria Monogynia. 
Identification. Juss. Gen., 138., ed. Usteri, p. 155. ; Don’s Mill., 4. p. 230. 
Synonymes. Bigndnia sp. of Lin. and others; Bignone Catalpa, Fr.; gemeine Trompetenblume, 
er. 
Derivation. The Indian name of a species of Bigndnia. 
Gen. Char., §e. 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. Stigma bilamellate. Capsule silique-formed, long, cylin- 
drical, 2-valved. Dissepiment opposite the valves. Seeds membranously 
margined, and pappose at the base and apex. (Don’s Mill.) 
Leaves simple, opposite, or disposed 3 in a whorl, exstipulate, deciduous ; 
entire. Flowers terminal, panicled, white.— A tree, deciduous ; native of 
North America ; of easy culture in common soil, and propagated by imported 
seeds or cuttings of the roots. 
¥ 1. C. syrING#¥o'LIA Sims. The Lilac-like-leaved Catalpa. 
Identification. Sims Bot. Mag., t. 1094.; Don’s Mill., 4. p. 230, 
Synonymes. Bigndnia Catdlpa Lin. Sp., 868.; Catdlpa bignonididés Walt. Fl. Car. p. 64.; C. 
SZ 
1289. Catdlpa syringefdlia. 
cordifolia Nutt. Gen. Amer. 1. p. 10.; Bois Shavanon, Catalpa de l’Amérique, Fr.; Trompeten- 
baum, Ger. ; Catalpa-boom, Dutch. 
