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October 1910 (Nos. 2330, 4379); Ching-chi Hsien, Fei-yiieh-ling, 

 woods, alt. 2800 m., August and September 1908 (No. 2329) ; Wa-shan, 

 woods, alt. 2000-2500 m., July and October 1908 (No. 2328); west of 

 Kuan Hsien, Pan-lan-shan, woodlands, alt. 2300-3000 m., June 1908, 

 October 1910 (Nos. 2325, 4331, 4333)- 



This gpeciea is apparently most closely related to T. chinensis Maximowicz, but 

 well distinguished from it and from all other Chinese species of Tilia by its hairy 

 shoots. Occasionally the shoots and more especially the stronger ones are more 

 or less glabrescent, and perhaps it may ultimately turn out to be an extreme variety 

 of Maximowicz's species. This new Linden is a common inhabitant of the woods 

 and forests of western Szech'uan. It was named in 1909 by Wilson in the Kew 

 Herbarium, but no description was published. 



Tilia Oliveri Szyszylowicz in Hooker's Icon. XX. sub t. 1927 

 (1890). — Schneider, III Handb, Lauhholzk, II, 387, fig. 259 a-b 

 (1909). — V, Engler, Monog. Tilia, 114 (1909). — Bean in Kew Bull 

 Misc. Inform, 1914, 53; Trees & Shrubs BnL IsL II. 593 (1914). 



Tilia mandshurica Szyszylowicz in Hooker^s Icon. XX. sub t. 1927 (non Ru- 

 precht & Maximowicz) (1890) . — Diels in Bot. Jahrb. XXIX. 468 (1900). 



Tilia pendula V. Engler apud Schneider, III. Handb. Lauhholzk. II. 387, fig. 

 259 c (1909). — V. Engler, Monog, Tilia, 113 (1909). 



Western Hupeh : Changlo Hsien, woods, alt. 1300-2000 m., July 

 1907 (No. 2336; tree 6-10 m. tall, 1-1.5 m. girth); Changyang Hsien, 

 woods, alt. 1800 m., October 1900 (Veitch Exped. No. 705) ; Hsing-shan 

 Hsien, woods, alt. 1000-2000 m., June, July and November 1907 (Nos. 

 591, 711, plants only, 2333, 2332, 233s; tree 6-25 m. tall, girth 1-4 

 m.); Fang Hsien, woods, alt. 1600-2300 m., July 1907, October and 

 November 1910 (Nos. 615, 634, 2337, 4410, 441 1, 4445; tree 5-25 m. 

 tall, girth 1-3 m.); Paokang Hsien, woods, June 1901 (Veitch 

 Exped. No. 2274); Fang Hsien, A. Henry (No. 7452^ in Herb. Gray, 

 t>'pe No. of T. pendula V. Engler) . Eastern Szech'uan: Wushan 

 Hsien, A, Henry (No. 7089, in Herb. Gray, type No. of T. Oliveri). 



This species is very abundant ia the moist woods of northwestern Hupeh, but 

 rare elsewhere in that province and not yet reported from western Szech'uan. 

 As usually seen it is a tree of moderate size with spreading, rather down-sweeping 

 branches, but occasionally large trees are met with. It is easily recognized by its 

 polished young branches, glabrous shoots, prominent winter-buds, by its leaves 

 with white, very dense and close tomentum, by its divaricate many-flowered 

 inflorescence and by its globose to obovoid, very slightly ribbed tuberculate fniit 

 crowned by the short apiculate remains of the style. On the flowering and fruiting 

 specimens before us the leaves vary in length from 3 to 12 cm. and in width from 

 3 to 10 cm. and the petioles are 2 to 7.5 cm. long. Usually the leaves are very dis- 

 tinctly toothed, but frequently the teeth are reduced almost to a mucro with scarcely 

 a trace of a sinus between them. In the color and texture of the tomentum on 



