SCROPHULARIACEAE. — PAULOWNIA 575 
Western Hupeh: Fang Hsien, woods, alt. 1300-2000 m., May 
21 and 26 and October 1907 (No. 769; tree 6-14 m., 0.3-2 m. circum- 
ference, flowers violet-purple, throat yellow). 
Paulownia Fargesii Franchet in Bull. Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris, 
II. 280 (1896).— Dode in Bull. Soc. Dendr. France, 1908, 161. — 
Schneider, IU. Handb. Laubholzk. II. 618 (1911). 
Western Szech’uan: Yung-king Hsien, alt. 1250 m., May 1904 
(Veitch Exped. No. 4207; tree 7 m., flowers lavender, fragrant); Wa- 
shan, common, alt. 300-1300 m., June 1908 (No. 3170, in part; tree 
12-20 m. tall, circumference 1-2 m.). 
Wilson's No. 3170? lacks the long hairs on the young branchlets, petioles and 
veins, and the young leaves are thinly tomentose beneath with glabrous veins, 
otherwise in the shape of the calyx and in the inflorescence it agrees with Wilson's 
No. 4207 which answers the description of P. Fargesii in every respect, except that 
the flowers, according to Wilson's note, are lavender, though in the dried state they 
certainly look white. A picture of this tree will be found under Nos. 47 and 79 of 
Wilson's photographs and also in his Vegetation of Western China, Nos. 330 and 
331. Henry's No. 10821 from Mengtze, Yunnan, agrees in many respects with 
Wilson's No. 3170?, but the leaves are more densely pubescent, about as much as 
those of P. tomentosa; the flowers are mauve colored according to Henry’s notes and 
are shorter and broader; in the shape and tomentum of the calyx, however, the 
two specimens perfectly agree. 
1 A new species related to P. tomentosa is the following: 
Paulownia glabrata Rehder, n. sp. 
Arbor ramulis pallide flavo-cinereis glabris. Folia membranacea, anguste 
triangulari-ovata, acuminata, basi truncata, 15-18 cm. longa et 11-12 em. lata, 
maturitate laete viridia, concoloria, supra glabra pilis sparsis ad costam nervosque 
exceptis, subtus fere glabra pilis sparsissimis stellatis exceptis; petioli glabri v. 
apicem versus puberuli, 4-9 cm. longi. Flores desiderantur. Panicula fructifera 
sine pedunculo circiter 20 cm. longa; rhachis glabra; cymae 2-3(-4)-florae, pedun- 
culo partiali circiter 1 em. longo glabrescenti insidentes; pedicelli 1.5-2 em. longi, 
fulvo-tomentosuli; calyx extus intusque dense fulvo-tomentosus, ultra medium 
partitus, lobis oblongo-ovatis obtusis. Capsula ovoidea, subito in rostrum con- 
tracta, 3 cm. longa, tomentosula. 
Shensi: foot of Ta-pei-shan, 1910, W. Purdom. ; 
It is with some hesitation that I describe this specimen without flowers as a new 
Species, but it can neither be united with P. tomentosa K. Koch, which it resembles 
in the inflorescence, nor with P. Fargesii Franchet, which it resembles in its leaves. 
The former species differs in its broader leaves cordate at the base and always, even 
late in the season, tomentose beneath and in its broader and shorter calyx-lobes, 
While P. Fargesii Franchet is distinguished by its triangular-ovate, acutish calyx- 
lobes, by the calyx-tube glabrous on the inside, by its glandular ovary and by the 
Ost sessile cymes of the inflorescence which gives it a narrow, thyrsoid-like 
look; at the base it bears usually two elongated equally thyrsoid branches. 
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