TILIACEAE 843 
Bracts mostly gradually narrowed to the pe- 
duncle above the base. 
Sepals pubescent on the outside, with short, 
felt-like hairs. 5. T. Michauz. 
Sepals nearly E PRONS outside, with few 
seale-like hai 6. T. truncata. 
Braets E abruptly narrowed to the base 
e pedu 
Leaf-blades gray or silvery-gray beneath. T. T. heterophylla. 
Leaf-blades white beneath, 8. T. eburnea. 
oe on branchlets, pedune! es, hd pedicels long and 
adin 9. T. lasioclada. 
Leaf-blades glabrous beneath at maturity. 
Bracts more or less pubescent at anih esia: 
Bract 0.5-2 em. wide. 10. T. littoralis. 
11. T. glabra. 
Bract 3-4 cm. PRYS 
Bracts glabrous at anthesis. 
Leaves not glaucous beneath: cymes loosely few-fiow- 
ere 
Leaves "glaucous beneath: cymes compactly many- 
Bract 1.5-2 cm. wide: stmainodia erose. 13. T. floridana. 
Bract 3-4 em. wide: staminodia entire. 14. T. australis. 
l. T. neglecta Spach. Tall tree, with deeply furrowed and scaly reddish- 
brown bark, often pendulous branches, ers slender glabrous branchlets: leaf- 
blades thick, aeute or abruptly acumina 
12. T. leucocarpa. 
d se, coarsely mucronate-crenate, 
dark-green, smooth and lustrous a 
ered below, except the mi 
with hort persistent pubescence i w i 
conspicuous axillary tufts, 10—15 
-12 e de: flowers 5-15 to Mun in 
long-brane glabro ymes: 
slender, glabrous, the free portion 3—4 
lon et narrow, long-attenuate to 
base, d ur he apex, glabrous, 7-11 
em. wide: als 
ovate, cilia T z labrous without, pilose with 
long white eh within, half as lon ng as the 
lanceolate petals. [ T. ameri d "Mar Not 
L.]—Rie dion ground, iea Po eons provinces, farely Coastal Plain, 
N.O. to N Miss 4 N. Y., Que., and W Mas 
T. caroliniana Mill. Large tree, with slender reddish eripi = ae 
ovate, 7-11 em. long, abruptly long- pointed, oblique, truncate, orda 
base, coarsely mucronate-crenate with bro ad gland- tipped teeth, . coated bo 
with a rusty or pale detaching stellate pubescence, at first hoa B mento t 
pper surface glabrous, dark and lustrous at maturity n 8—15 together in 
small, stout-branched, pubescent cymes: nele slender, pubescent, the 
portion 2-3.3 em. long : bee linear-elliptic, 10-12 em. long, sessile or nearly so, 
becoming glabrous or glabrate: sepals ciliate, brown and pubescent without, 
earing long white hairs within. [T a ied Ait. T. ar Ashe ata 
Ashe]|—Woods, Coastal Plain, Ga. to N. C.; o W La. to S Ark., and 
rather generally in Tex. to the Edwards Platan. 
3. T. i tag Ashe. Tree: leaf blades on flowering ped elliptic-ovate, 
8-10 e Pape taper- cde about twice as long as broad, cuneate at base or 
a. on one side, onate-crenate with gland- tipped teeth, dull blue-green 
above, pale grayish green below, the early appressed s traight pubescence de- 
a s by flowering t a little easily detached faseicled pubescence re- 
nus ; corym ines pi | pubescent; peduncle slender, pubescent, the 
tee portion 2-3.5 em. long; bract linear-elliptie or lingulate, often falcate, 
finally o. 4-8 < em, long, n narrowed to the rounded sessile base: sepals 
