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LADY’S MAGAZINE OF GARDENING. 
PAULOWNIA IMPERIAL! S, Sieb. THE IMPERIAL PAULOFNIA, OR 
FOXGLOVE TREE. 
Paulownia, Sieb. Nat. Ord. Scrophularinea?. Lin. Syst. Didynamia Angiospermia. 
Generic Character. —Calyx campanulate, 5-cleft. Corolla tubularly campanulate, with a 
5-cleft sublabiate limb. Stamens four, didynamous. Stigma truncate. Capsule woody, 
2-celled, 2-valved. Valves septicidal. Seeds numerous, each surrounded by a wing, 
attached to a fixed placenta on the back of the dissepiment. Albumen fleshy. 
Synonymes.- —Bignonia tomentosa, Thun. ; Incarvillea tomentosa, Spreng. 
Engravings.- —Kaemp. Amoen. p. 860 ; FI. Jap. t. 10 ; and our Plate 1. 
Specific Character. —Leaves ovate, cordate at the base, acute, undivided or 3-lobed, densely 
clothed with soft hairs beneath. Flowers panicled ; calyx covered with rusty tomentum. 
Description, &c.—This splendid deciduous tree, which is a native of 
Japan, grows, in its native country, to the height of thirty or forty feet, 
with a trunk two or three feet in diameter. The branches are few, but 
strong, and they proceed from the trunk at right angles. The leaves are 
very large and broad; and the flowers, which singly resemble those of 
the Foxglove, are produced in large terminal panicles, like the flowers of 
the Horse-chestnut or the Catalpa. At a little distance, indeed, the 
Paulofnia strongly resembles the latter tree, except in the colour of its 
flowers; but the seed-vessels are very different—those of the Catalpa 
being long horn-like pods, resembling in shape those of the Horn Poppy, 
and the seed-vessel of the Paulofnia being an oval-shaped nut (See fig. 1). 
The flowers of the Paulofnia appear in April, and they are fragrant. 
Their natural size is shown in the coloured plate, hut with only a small 
floral leaf; hut the size of the other leaves in proportion to the flowers is 
shown in fig. 2. 
This valuable addition to our lawns and shrubberies, for it is quite 
hardy, was only introduced into England in 1840; hut it has been 
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