PLANTS MENTIONED IN CLASSICAL WORKS. B49 
is good for making lutes, Now the people of #79 Tsang ko 
(a part of Sz‘ch‘uan, Kuichou, etc) and Yiinnan spin thread 
from a tung tree and make a kind of cloth which resembles 
woollen cloth. [This refers to Stereulia, v. infra, 516.) 
P.,. XXXVa, 23, fi] tung also & fi] white tfung or 7 Hil 
pao Vung, Lit Sat-curnx, who correctly refers the Rh ya [309] 
to this, gives the following description of the tung tree :—It 
has very large leaves, variable in shape. Its rind is of a dirty 
_ White colour. Its wood is light, never injured by insects. It is 
used in making various utensils, and is also excellent for pillars 
in building houses, It opens its flowers in the second month 
they resemble the flowers of the ¥ 4 A‘ien nin Shana 
are white or of a purple colour. The fruit is more than an 
inch long, as large as a jujube. Within the capsule are the 
seeds. These are light, flattened, winged like the seeds of the 
elm tree. When ripe the fruit bursts, and then the seeds uy 
carried off by the wind. 
The tung tree is figured in Ch. [XXXIII, 46]. Cordate 
ee leaves, ovoid acuminate fruit. According to Heyy [/.¢., 490] 
this is the Paulownia imperialis, 8. & Z., called pao tung im 
— Hupei. Tt is a common tree in the middle part of China. 
[See Davin, Troisi¢me Voyage dans V Empre chinois, I, 22, 
65, 94, 275; LI, 69]. The above Chinese description of the 
“ung agrees with Paulownia. Ihave no doubt this was the 
“ung mentioned in the Classics, the wood of which was use | 
for making lutes, 
Amen, exot., 860, 861, $j too, vulgo kr. Althea arbor 
_dipy rena, flore digitalis «emulo, Arbor satis vasta, cortice 
pingui, glabro, glauco . . . . ligno levissimo, firmo memen 
eta seriniariis pro fabricandis capsulis expetito ; medulla 
— albissima, ete, Detailed description and a good drawing. 
ze This is the Bignonia tomentosa of THUNBERG OF Paulownia 
: imperialis, S. & Z%. [ Flora. japon., I, 27, tab. 10.] 
