342 BOTANICON SINICUM. 
with purple spots. The capsules are long and slender, 4 
rude picture of the ¢s‘iu, only leaves, is found in th 
Kiu huang [LVI, 11]. Henry, lc., 78, ts‘ in Hupei is” 
the Catalpa Kempferi. 
Amen, evot , 841, 842, FR Hk kukusju, vulgo kawara fisagi, : 
detailed biiehics and drawing of Catalpa Kempjeri, 8. hile 
SIEBOLD, Jeon, éned., VI, fk, Catalpa Kempferi. : 
Stesonp, Jeon. ined., VI, and Flora japon., I, 147, tab. 19, 
RE, Rottlera japonica, Sprencen, Croton japonicum, - Thbg. 
[ Flora, japon., 270]. Order Huphorbiacee. The leaves of this: 
shrub, which is found also in China, have some resemblat 
_ to the leaves of Catalpa. The fruit is a capsule of the size ofa 
cherry. In the Phon zo [LXXXII, 23, 24] we have Fe 
Catalpa Kempferi, and [24-25] Hk, Rottlera japonica. 
The ¢sz‘ of the Classics is, I have no doubt, Catalpa, and 
most probably the character #§ kia, referred likewise to 
this tree, has erroneously been identified with FA A/a. : 
Mencius said :—A plantation-keeper who neglects his wi 
[Stereulia, v. infra, 516] and kia (FR) and cultivates his 
sour wild dates (jujubes, v. supra, 484) is a poor phntation- 
keeper. 
Tso Cavan, 415, 416 [Duke Siang, B.C. 570] :—Mub- 
keang (Duke Ch‘ing’s mother) had caused some fine hia trees 
to be chosen, to make for herself a coffin and alute. 4 
[ B.C. 568] :—Ke-sun had planted for himself six hia trees 
in the Pu orchard outside the east gate. K‘ing asked h 
for some trees [to make the coffin] and when he gay 
half-assent the other used the kia trees without Ke-sun 
forbidding him. 833 [Duke Gae, 493-467 B.C.]: Ts 
seu, when about to die, said:—Plant Ava trees by. my oe 
[The ka furnished wood for coffins. | is 
In all the above quotations, kia is ##f in the modern a 
of the Classics, but, as has already been noticed [see supra, 
