Plate 131

ADELIA ACUMINATA Michaux. Pond Brush. Crooked Brush. (× 1/2.)


BIGNONIÀCEAE. The Trumpet Creeper Family.

CATÁLPA. The Catalpas.

Leaves simple, opposite or whorled, with long petioles; flowers in terminal panicles or corymbs; fruit a long round pod which splits into halves; seed many, flat, papery with a tuft of long hairs at each end.

A small genus of widely distributed trees. The species freely hybridize, and have been cultivated and planted so extensively that it is difficult to find typical specimens.