DIANDRIA, MONOGYNIA. 
8. Catalpa. Jussieu. Bignonioe . J 
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CaL 2-parted. Cor. campanulate, tube ven- 
tricose, border 4-lobed, unequal. Siam. 2, 
fertile, filaments 3, sterile. Stigma bi-la- 
mellate. Caps^^ siliquaeform, long, cylindric, 
2-valved ; Dissepiment opposite to the 
valves. Seed membranaceously margined 
and tufted at the extremities. Nutt. 
1. C. leaves cordate, flat. 
Bignonia Catalpa, Willd. sp. pi. 3. p. 289. 
Catalpa syringsefolia, Sims in Bot. Mag. 1094, and 
Pursh. FI. Am. Sep. Vol 1. p. 10. 
C. bignonioides. Walt. fl. car. p. 64. 
Icon. Schmidt^ arb. t. 41. (Pursh.) Mich. fil. Ar^ 
bres Forest. 
Catalpa-tree. Catawba-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. (AcanthlJ 
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, eacli with a single or double 
anther. Stigma 1. Caps, attenuated, be- 
low opening with an elastic spring from the 
cordifolia. 
