THE CHINESE TULIP-TREE 
carpellary column is more elongated, 
more cylindrical, and disintegrates at a 
later period ; the carpels also are quite 
different, being rounded and straight 
at the apex instead of acuminate and 
of western and north-western Szechuan. 
It extends therefore across 1 5° of longi- 
tude. It is usually a small tree 1 5 to 
25 feet high, but that from which I 
gathered mature fruit and seeds was 
reflexed as in the American species. 
The Chinese Tulip-tree is common 
in the woods and copses of central and 
western China at elevations of 4,000 
to 8,000 feet. Shearer and Maries met 
with it in the Lushan Mountains in 
Kiangsi province ; Henry and myself 
in western Hupeh ; Farges in north- 
east Szechuan. In 1903 and 1904 I 
met with it very frequently in the forests 
fully 60 feet in height, with a large trunk 
and widely spreading branches. Trees of 
1 5 feet or so in heightbloomquitefreely, 
bearing flowers of a greenish-yellow 
like those of the American species. The 
Chinese name for the tree is JVo- 
c/ia?ig c/iui (Goose-foot) from a fanciful 
resemblance of the more attenuated 
leaves to the foot of a goose. 
Young trees of this kind have been 
