Paulownia ^493 



This species, which is probably smaller in size than P. tomentosa, occurs both in 

 the north of China, where it has been collected at Chefoo, and in the south, where it 

 has been found in the province of Kwangtung. 



P. Duclouxii^ Dode, in Bull. Soc. Dend. France, 1908, p. 162, is apparently a 

 variety with white flowers, tinged with pink, and not spotted as in the type. This 

 is said to have been raised by C. Sprenger ^ of Corfu from seed, which he received 

 from Dr. Dode. 



PAULOWNIA TOMENTOSA 



Paulownia tomentosa, Koch, Dendrologie, ii. pt. i, p. 299 (1872); Shirasawa, Icon. Ess. Forest. 



Japon, i. text 129, t. 85 (1900). 

 Paulownia imperialis, Siebold and Zuccarini, Ft. Jap. i. 27 (1835); Loudon, Trees and Shrubs, 671 



(1842) J W. J. Hooker, Bot. Mag? t. 4666 (1852); Hemsley, in Journ. Linn. Soc. (Bot.) xxvi. 



180 (1890). 

 Bignonia tomentosa, Thunberg, Fl. Jap. 252 (1784). 



A tree, attaining 80 ft. in height and 12 ft. in girth. Young branchlets green, 

 glandular, and pubescent. Leaves broadly ovate, about 7 to 8 in. long, and 6 to 7 in. 

 wide, cordate at the base, shortly acuminate at the apex, undivided or with one or 

 two short lateral deltoid lobes, entire in margin ; upper surface dark green, pubescent 

 with short erect hairs ; lower surface greyish green, covered with a thin tomentum ; 

 petiole 3 to 5 in. long, glandular, pubescent. 



Flowers violet, the lower lip marked with dark coloured spots and two yellow 

 bands ; calyx with five ovate erect lobes, covered with a dense rusty brown 

 tomentum. Capsules ovoid, about \\ in. long, and i in. broad ; seeds minute, about 

 \ in. long. 



I. Var. Fargesii, Henry (var. nova). 



Paulownia Fargesii, Franchet, in Bull. Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris, 1896, p. 280. 



Flowers paler in colour. Adult leaves more glabrous than in the type. This was 

 described by Franchet from a specimen sent by Pere Farges from the mountains of 

 north-eastern Szechwan ; and appears to be identical with a tree found by me growing 

 on cliffs in the mountains of Hupeh (No. 5346 A). The pentagonal ribbed calyx, 

 noticed by Franchet, appears to be due to drying of the specimen, and not to be 

 specially characteristic of this form, as a similar calyx occurs in some specimens of 

 typical P. tomentosa. Var. Fargesii was introduced into cultivation in France by 

 M. M. de Vilmorin, who raised it from seed received from Pere Farges ; and it 

 flowered* in M. Boucher's nursery at Paris in 1905. 



P. tomentosa is a native of the mountains of central and western China, where 

 it has been found growing wild at altitudes of about 4000 feet by Pere Farges in 

 Szechwan, and by myself in Hupeh and Yunnan. It is the f ««^ tree of the Chinese 



' p. vieridionalis, Dode, loc. cit., described from a tree growing in Laos in Indo-China, is allied to or perhaps a form 

 ai P. Fortwiei. ^ Cf. Mitt. Deut. Dend. Ges. 1910, p. 246. 



' Figured from a tree in the garden at Bishopstowe, near Torquay, the first which flowered in the open air in England. 



* a. Journ. Soc. Nat. Hort. vi. 324 (1905). C. Sprenger of Corfu, states in Mitt. Deut. Dend. Ges. 1910, p. 247, that 

 he has raised P. Fargesii from seeds received from the mountains of north-west Hupeh in central China. 



