764 TILIA. [CLASS XIII. ORDER I. 



and often unequally serrated, the upper side a bright lively green, 

 quite smooth, the under paler, dull, with prominent mid-rib and 

 branched lateral veins, smooth, except at the axis of the veins is a 

 thick tuft of woolly hairs. Stipules ovate, smooth, soon falling oflF. 

 Inflorescence axillary, cymes of numerous flowers, on a long slender 

 smooth common stalk, furnished with a large thin pale foliaceous 

 oblong linear hractea. Flowers pale, yellowish green, very fragrant, 

 especially in the cool of the morning and evening. Calyx of five ovate 

 pieces, downy within, soon falling away. Petals five, oblong ovate. 

 Stamens numerous, spreading. Style erect, straight, simple, with an 

 obtuse stigma, of five lobes. Capsules leathery, downy, mostly one 

 celled, single seeded. 



Habitat. —Groves, woods, and hedge rows; a doubtful native. 



Tree; flowering in July. 



2. T. grandifoHia, Ehrh. (Fig. 869.) Broad-leaved Downy Lime- 

 tree. Leaves obliquely sub-rotundate, cordate, with an acuminated 

 point, unequally serrated, downy, especially beneath, and woolly at 

 the axis of the veins ; young branches downy ; cymes about three 

 flowered ; fruit woody, downy, turbinate, with prominent angles. 



English Botany, t. 2720.— English Flora, vol. iii. p. 18.— Hooker, 

 British Flora, ed. 4. vol. i. p, 214. — Lindley, Synopsis, p. 54. — T, 

 platyphylla, Scop. -De Cand. Prod, 1. p. 513. 



A tall handsome tree, with spreading branches, clothed with reddish 

 brown bark, downy the first year. Leaves alternate, large, on downy 

 footstalks, roundish, with an acuminated often elongated point, ob- 

 liquely cordate at the base, from four to five inches across, soft, with 

 close pubescence, especially on the paler under side, and with a small 

 tuft of woolliness at the axis of the veins, the margins somewhat un- 

 equally and acutely serrated, the serratures often with an elongated 

 point. Stipules ovate, obtuse, soon falling off. Injlorescence axillary 

 cymes, of about three pale yellowish green flowers, on slender nearly 

 smooth footstalks, bearing an oblong linear pale subfoliaceous smooth 

 hractea. Flowers very fragrant, larger than the last species. Calyx 

 with ovate lanceolate pieces, downy wiihin. Petals oblong. Stamens 

 numerous, with s]ender filaments, longer than the petals. Style straight, 

 erect, simple. Stigma five-cleft. Capsule turbinate, woolly, about five 

 angled, five celled, but bearing usually only one dark brown seed, which 

 destroys >he disseppiments of the other cells. 



Habitat.— Groves, woods, and plantations; a doubtful native. 



Tree ; flowering iu June and July. 



This species is readily distinguished by its large broad downy leaves 

 and pubescent young branches, as well as by its three flowered cymes 

 and angular capsules. The variety /3. corallina, of Smith, which is 

 distinguished by the red colour of its young shoots only, does not ap- 

 pear peculiar to this species. The T. rubra, De Cand., to which 



