  Motivated by a recent paper of Liu and Ma, we describe a number of general
WP-Bailey chains. We show that many of the existing WP-Bailey chains (or
branches of the WP-Bailey tree), including chains found by Andrews, Warnaar and
Liu and Ma, arise as special cases of these general WP-Bailey chains. We
exhibit three new branches of the WP-Bailey tree, branches which also follow as
special cases of these general WP-Bailey chains. Finally, we describe a number
of new transformation formulae for basic hypergeometric series which arise as
consequences of these new WP-Bailey chains.
