DIANDRIA, MONOGYNIA. 

 8. Catalpa. Jussieu. (Bignonir.J 



Cal. 2- parted. Cor. campanulate, tube ven- 

 tricose, border 4-lobed, unequal. Stam. 2, 

 fertile, filaments 8, sterile. Stigma bi-la- 

 mellate. Caps, siliquaeform, long, cylindric, 

 2-valved ; Dissepiment opposite to the 

 valves. Seed membranaceouslv margined 

 and tufted at the extremities. Nutt. 



1. C. leaves cordate, flat. cordifoiia. 



Bignonia Catalpa, Willd. sp. pi. 3. p. 289. 



Catalpa svringiefulia, Sims in Bot. Mag. 1094, and 



Pursh.Fl. Am. Sep. Vol 1. p. 10. 

 C. bignonioides. Walt. fl. car. p. 64. 



Icon. Schmidt, arb. t. 41. (Puiah.) Mich. fil. Ar- 



bres Forest. 



Catulpa-tree. Cataivba-tree. Schawnes-wood. 



A beautiful and ornamental tree. It grows rapidly, and not 

 only affords a fine shade by reason of its large leaves, but, 

 when in flower, affords a magnificent object for the sight. 

 The flowers are white, speckled with purple, yellow, and pale 

 pink. Mr Nuttall, seems to doubt whether this tree is really 

 indigenous in the United States ; though he says, on the au- 

 thority of Gov. Harrison, that it exists in considerable quanti- 

 ties in the forests of the Wabash, Illinois Territory, where its 

 wood is split for rails. It is therefore difficult to ascertain 

 whether it has not been originally planted near the places 

 where it is now so abundantly found, in the vicinity of this 

 city. In gravelly and stoney soil, seeming, however, to shun 

 lime-stone ground. On the banks of the Delaware, and Schuyl- 

 kill, and elsewhere ; common. July, August. 



9. Justicia, L. Gen. pi. 35. (Acanthi. J 



Cal. 5- parted or 5 -cleft, often with 3 bractes. 

 Tube of the corolla gibbous; border bilabi- 

 ate ; the upper lip emarginate, the lower tri- 

 fid. Filaments 2, each with a single or double 

 anther. Stigma 1. Caps, attenuated, be- 

 low opening with an elastic spring from the 



