Catalpa I 49 I 



Flowers few, seven to ten in a compact corymb ; calyx covered externally with 

 stellate tomentum ; corolla, similar in size to that of C. Bungei, white, spotted with 

 reddish brown dots. Fruit 18 to 20 in. long, -J- in. in diameter. Seeds yellowish 

 grey, about f in. long, with sharp-pointed wings, ending in long silky hairs. 



C. Fargesi is a native of western China, where it has been found in the 

 mountains of Szechwan and Shensi by Farges, Giraldi, and Wilson. The latter 

 introduced 1 it in 1901. Young plants show merely slight traces of the branched 

 hairs on the branchlets and leaves, which are so characteristic of wild specimens ; 

 but as th.y grow older this peculiar pubescence may increase in quantity. Plants 

 of this species, raised from seed sent by Wilson (Nos. 636 and 640) in 1905, are 

 growing freely at Colesborne, where they have endured 30 of frost without injury, 

 though the wood does not ripen well in autumn. These are now 4 to 6 ft. high. 

 There are also young plants at Kew and Aldenham. (A. H.) 



1 Journ. Roy. Hort. Soc. xxviii. 50 (1902). 



