syringefolia, it is a most welcome addition to the tree flora 
of Europe, being easily propagated by seeds which have 
ripened on the Continent and by cuttings. C. Kempfert 
is often found under the name of C. Bungei, a very different 
tree, not hitherto introduced into Hurope, which 1s a native 
of N. China, has a much larger flower, and pods eighteen 
inches long. The tree from which the accompanying plate 
was taken flowered in the Royal Gardens in August. In 
France the flowers attain a deeper colour than at Kew. M. 
Lavallée describes them as spotted-with deep violet, and 
having two yellow bands extending to the base of the 
middle lobe of the lower lip; these are obscure In our 
lant. 
5 Desor. A middle-sized tree, twenty-five to thirty feet 
high, with spreading rather brittle branches and copious 
foliage; main branches stout; shoots green, smelling 
disagreeably when bruised. Leaves about six inches long 
and broad, of a bright pale green colour, with brown 
glandular spots at the junction of the nerves, broadly ovate, 
base rounded or cordate, margin sinuate or three-lobed, 
the lateral lobes short, terminal tapering to a fine pomt, 
surfaces pubescent at first, then glabrous above, smooth or 
roughish beneath ; petiole two to five inches, round; nerve- 
axils pubescent. Panicle terminal, erect, as long as the 
leaves, narrow or broad; rachis with small brown petioled 
leaves at the base. Flowers two to three together at the 
ends of the branchlets of the panicle, horizontal or drooping; 
pale yellow sprinkled with minute red spots within. Caly« 
very small, lips rounded. Corolla campanulate, three- 
quarters of an inch long, mouth oblique, upper lip short, 
recurved, lower spreading ; lobes all rounded with crisped 
margins; in many of the flowers a small recurved tongue- 
shaped appendage to the corolla (see fig. 6) occurs on the 
corolla-tube near its base above (it is figured also in M. 
Lavallée’s work). Capsule a foot long and one-third of an 
inch in diameter, cylindric, straight, smooth, brown. Seeds 
compressed, velvety, produced at each end into fine silky 
hairs.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Longitudinal section of flower; 2, corolla laid open; 3, stamen; 
4, ru imentary ditto ; 5, transverse section of ovary; 6, corolla with appendage ; 
7, longitudinal section of ditto :—all but Jig. 6 enlarged. 
