PLANTS MENTIONED IN CLASSICAL WORKS. — 341 
long, and slender ; after the leaves have fallen off, the fruit 
still hangs on the tree. Compare with this Davin, Trotsid’me 
Voyage dans 0 Empire chinois, 1, 247 :—J’observe sur les 
bords du torrent des Catalpa qui conservent encore leurs 
_ hombreuses gousses, longues et minces, qui font un effet 
eurieux sur ces arbres ¢feuillés (25th January, 1873, Southern 
Shensi]. : 
The P? ya [11th century] says :—In the same way as the 
HE FF mow tan (Pwonia moutan) is called JE HE hua wang, 
(the king of flowers) the tsz‘ is termed 7 JE mu wang (the 
king of trees) for there is no other wood which is superior 
to the wood of the tsz‘. ' 
The Rh ya i [12ch century] says:—The sz‘ yields a 
valuable timber for house-building. A house built of it is 
never struck by lightning. : 
P., XXXVa, 20, PE tsz‘. Su Sune [11th century] says :— 
The wood of the ts: yields a valuable timber much used for 
building palaces, temples and houses. _ It is largely cultivated 
in gardens, Lt Sai-cren states :—This tree is very common. _ 
There are three varieties of it. That with a white veined 
Wood is the tsz‘, that with a red wood is # ts‘iu, that with a 
beantifully veined wood is # i. A smaller variety of the 
tu is called #8 kia. [Compare also the Rh ya, 290-292. ] 
se names are frequently confounded by Chinese, and it 
seems also by Japanese, botanists. 
The Shan hai king mentions a tree, ##f siao, which, according 
to Kuo P*o, is the same as the ts‘iu. [See W.D., 794. | 
Ch. [XXXIII, 47, under RE] gives a good drawing of 
Catalpa Bungeana, ©. A. Meyer, with flowers and fruits. 
This beautiful tree is known at Peking under the name of 
‘su. It attains considerable dimensions. Its leaves are 
very variable in size, heart-shaped or triangular, entire sg 
_ lobed ; they have an unpleasant smell. In May the seat 
- S0vered with a profusion of large bell-shaped flowers, white 
