Campsis × tagliabueana (Vis.) Rehd.

This name covers hybrids between the two species of Campsis. They cross readily and no doubt the first hybrids occurred early in the nineteenth century in those parts of the continent where the warm summers permit seed to ripen, but passed as variants of one or other of the two species. The first plant to be identified as a hybrid arose in the nursery of the Tagliabue brothers near Milan, and this is the type of the group. Later, many forms were distributed by French nurseries, of which the finest and best known is ‘Mme Galen’, which was put into com­merce in 1889. It resembles C. radicans in having the leaves downy beneath, the other parent in its lax truss. It is beautifully figured in Bot. Mag., n.s., t. 198, and further information will be found in the accompanying text.