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CLASSIFICATION AND DESCRIPTION 



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ORDER XXX. SCROPHULARlACE-ZE. 



(FIGWORT FAMILY.) 



A large order of plants, almost entirely herbaceous; 

 found in all climates ; it includes one cultivated tree in 

 this region. 



GENUS 64. PAULOWNIA. 



Tree with opposite (sometimes in whorls of three), large, 

 deciduous, palmately veined, heart-shaped leaves. Leaf- 

 stem often hollow ; minute cup-shaped glands, separated 

 from one another, situated on many portions of the leaf, 

 but quite abundant on the upper side at the branching of 

 the veins. Flowers large, in immense panicles; in spring, 

 before the leaves expand. Fruit a dry, ovate, pointed 

 capsule, 1^ in. long, with innumerable flat- winged seeds ; 

 hanging on the tree throughout the winter. 



Paulownia imperialis. (IMPERIAL 

 PAULOWNIA.) Leaves 7 to 14 in. long, 

 sometimes somewhat lobed, usually very 

 hairy beneath; 2 buds, almost hidden 

 under the bark, above each other in the 

 axil. Flowers purple, nearly 2 in. long, 

 with a peculiar, thick, leather-like calyx. 

 A broad flat-headed tree, of rapid growth 

 when young. Cultivated ; from Japan ; 

 and hardy throughout, but the flower-buds 

 are winter-killed quite frequently north of 

 New York City. 



P. imperialis. 



ORDER XXXI. BIGNONlACEJE. 



(BiGNONiA FAMILY.) 



An order of woody plants abundant in South America; 

 here including one genus of trees : 



