TILIACEAE 845 
T. lasioclada Sarg. Large tree, becoming 20 m. tall: leaf-blades thick, 
9. 
ovate, 10-15 em. long, abruptly acuminate finely mucronate- -erenate with gland- 
re 
small, branched cymes shorter than the bra act, the branches with long spreading 
hairs, the frec portion 2.5—3 cm. long; bract linear-elliptie to spatulate, abruptly 
it . Ld . 
p to a short pure sepals acute, pubescen ose within, 
bout one-third as long the lanceolate acuminate petals, about the sa 
length as the staminodia.—Rich soil, Coastal Plain and Pie ut Fla. to - 
o far as k vannah Rive 
Distinct from all other American species in its long and eni diea hairs on "the 
a veins of the leaves, and the peduncle and branches of the in- 
floresce 
10. T. littoralis Sarg. Tree, the branchlets A reddish or purplish and 
abro 
pale- Mig the first season, M de gl and light gray-grown: leaf- 
blad vate, 8-12 cm. long, 8-1 m. wide, BD. short-pointed, unsymmet- 
NE rounded on one side at , and cuneate at the other, finely serrate, at 
fi tomentose, so us and n glaucous beneath, pale yellow-green 
above, only the vein-axils bearing conspicuous rusty tufts: flowers 9-15 together 
small e act pubescent cymes: peduncle somewhat pubescent, the free por- 
tion 2-2 1. lo et oblanceolate, 5-17.5 em. : g, bro ut the 
ciliate S and E midrib beneath: sepals pale-pubescent without, 
villose on margins and w ong white hairs within: petals acuminate.— 
Coast and Be: Islands of Ga. 
T. glabra Vent. Tall tree, ieu, stout, red, gd: tely glabrous branchlets: 
m blades broadly ovate, 10— 18 c . long, 10- 15 c . wide, abruptly acuminate, 
vith 
gland-tipped teeth, at first coated wit mentum brous, dark 
yellow-green above, pale beneath, the vein-axils without axillary tufts: fl 8 
10-15 together in broad, slender-branch rly us peduncle 
stout, glabrous, red, the free portion 2.5-4 e ong: bract elliptic to obovate, 
gradually sa to ae base, 8-16 cm. long: sepals a shorter than the 
lanceolate peta [T.v osa Sarg. T. fulva Raf.]—Co upland woods, Blue 
Ridge and i 00. provinces, N. C. to Tenn., and E Ky. 
12. T. leucocarpa Ashe. Small tree, with pale furrowed bark, narrow crown, 
and rather slender, glabrous ; orange or red-brown branchlets: the winter-buds 
dull-red, ovoid: leaf-blades thin, ree a ovate, 10-15 em. long, 8-10 em. wide, 
ru etrically cordat t t 
abruptly inte nsymm date or trunca , coarsely 
mucronate-crenate with glandular teeth, on unfold g dark-red and sparsely 
pubescent, soon glabrous or wit all axillary tufts in the vein-axils beneath 
dark-gree ve, pale and lustrous beneat wers usually 10-12, or some- 
times as m gether in long-branched pubescent cymes: peduncle 
glabrous: braet linear-lingular, sometimes broa y-lingular, 8- e long, 
usually 1.5 , or occasionally . broad, nearly sessile sepals acute, 
rusty-tomentose without, brous within. [T. nu oods, Coastal 
Plain and adj. provinces, Ala. to Tex. S E Okla., and S W Ark k.—Closely 
similar to T. americana L., of the northern States, differing chiefly in its 
densely tomentose pedicels. 
13. T. floridana Small. Small tree, with furrowed bark and slender red- pis 
or yellowish glabrous branchlets: leaf- blades broadly ovate, 6-12 em. 
5-10 em. wide, acuminate at apex, truncate or cordate at the uns R 
base, or variously oblique, coarsely mucronate-crenate with rather large teeth, 
the mucro exceedingly long, reddish and tomentose in unfolding, but at maturity 
