SCROPHULARIACEAE. — PAULOWNIA 577 



This new species is a handsome tree with its large, much branched panicles of lav- 

 ender-colored flowers; it differs from all other species of the genus in the coarse 

 dentation of the leaves. Its native habitat is still unknown; around Ichang it is 

 only cultivated and the specimen from Fokien also may have been gathered from 

 a cultivated tree. 



Paulownia recurva Rehder, n. sp. 



Arbor 12-metralis, trunco ambitu 1.30 m.; ramuli juniores tomento 

 ochraceo-cinereo laxo obtecti, annotini cinereo-brunnei glabri. Folia 

 membranacea (juniora tantum vidi) ovata, acuminata, basi rotun- 

 data V. truncata, circiter 10 cm. longa et 7 cm. lata, supra pilis brevi- 

 bus simplicibus et fasciculatis conspersa glandulis intermixtis, subtus 

 tomento villoso ochraceo-cinereo obtecta; petioli initio villoso-tomen- 

 tosi. Inflorescentia paniculata, circiter 20 cm. longa, glabra; axes 

 laterales infimae saepe elongatae et paniculatae, cetermn cymosae 

 5-1-florae manifeste pedunculatae pedunculis apicem versus decres- 

 centibus 3.5-0.5 cm. longis glabris; pedicelli 1.5-2 cm. longi apicem 

 versus tomentosuli; calyx extus fere glaber v. laxe tomentosa et 

 glabrescens, cupuliformis, 1.5 cm. longus et 2 cm. diam. lobis erecto- 

 patentibus ovatis 7-8 mm. longis apice rotundatis et recurvis, intus 

 undique dense tomentosus; corolla campanulata, violaceo-purpurea, 

 tubo 4-4.5 cm. longo et 1.5 cm. diam. paullo supra basim angustato 

 et leviter curvato extus pilis brevibus basim versus densius consperso, 

 limbo bilabiate 4 cm. diam., lobis subrotundatis intus breviter 

 pilosulis; stamina glabra, tubum dimidium vix superantia; ovarium 

 ovoideum, dense glandulosum; stylus basim versus glandulosus, 3.5 

 cm. longus, limbum fere attingens. Capsula desideratur. 



Western Hupeh: Hsing-shan Hsien, woods, alt. 1600 m., May 



1907 (No. 769"). 



This species seems nearest to P. tomentosa K. Koch, which differs from it chiefly 

 in its more densely fulvous-tomentose leaves, cordate or subcordate at the base, 

 in the densely fulvous-tomentose outer surface of the calyx teeth which are not re- 

 curved at the apex and in the tomentosa inflorescence. The other species with 

 their calyx glabrous or glabrescent on the outside differ also in their campanulate 

 calyx with acutish lobes much shorter than the calyx-tube, and in the longer and 

 narrower corolla. 



Paulownia Duclouxii Dode in Bull. Soc. Dendr. France, 1908, 162. 



Western Hupeh: Ichang, alt., 300-1000 m. April 1907 (No. 

 3170; tree 6-15 m., trunk 0.60-2.30 m. diam., flowers white or lavender- 

 purple). 



Wilson's No. 3170 seems to agree fairly well with Dodc's description of P. 

 Duclouxii, of which I have not seen the type specimen. Dode, however, says it 



