592 TILIA 



described as growing 60 ft. high in Manchuria. Leaves (on the tree at Kew), 

 2^ to 6 ins. wide, the same or rather more long, heart-shaped, widely and 

 coarsely toothed, with occasionally a lobe at the side; green with a thin 

 stellate down above, grey and with abundant stellate down beneath, but 

 with no tufts in the vein-axils. Young shoots downy. It has never flowered 

 at Kew, but on preserved wild specimens the floral bracts are 4^ ins. long, 



1 in. wide, downy ; the fruit globose, warted, downy and not or indistinctly 

 ribbed. Introduced to Kew in 187 r. 



T. MAXIMOWICZIANA, Shirasawa. 



A tree 70 to 100 ft. high; young shoots downy. Leaves roundish ovate, 

 3 to 6 ins. long, scarcely as wide; contracted at the apex to a short point, 

 heart-shaped at the base, coarsely tpothed; dark green and slightly downy 

 above, covered beneath with grey stellate down, and furnished with con- 

 spicuous tufts in the axils of the veins; stalk i to 3 ins. long. Flowers not 

 seen in this country but described as being produced in clusters of ten to 

 eighteen, the floral bracts 3 to 4 ins. long, downy. Fruit f in. long, ribbed. 



Native of Japan; sent to Kew by Prof. Sargent in 1890. It is a noble 

 forest tree in Japan, but the few trees in Britain do not promise well, although 

 they seem to be hardy. This lime differs from the others with starry 

 pubescent leaves and branches in having tufts of hairs in the vein-axils. 



T. MlCHAUXII, Nuttah. 



(T. alba, Michaux, not Aiton.) 



A deciduous tree, 70 to 80 ft. high in a wild state, with a trunk 6 to 9 ft. 

 in girth ; young shoots and buds smooth. Leaves broadly ovate, very 

 variable in size, in adult specimens 4 to 8 ins. long, 3 to 6 iris, wide ; 

 obliquely heart-shaped or rarely truncate at the base, taper-pointed, coarsely 

 and sharply toothed, dark green and smooth above, more or less covered 

 with starry down beneath; stalk i to 2 ins. long. Floral bract narrowly 

 obovate, 5 to 6 ins. long, downy above, smooth below; flowers yellowish, 

 produced in a cyme at the end of a slender stalk, if ins. long. Fruit in. 

 long, felted, roundish oval. 



Native of Eastern N. America; long in cultivation, but confused with 

 T. americana, between which and T. heterophylla it is in most respects 

 intermediate. From T. americana it is easily distinguished by the dull 

 downy under-surface of the leaves, but the down is variable in amount. I 

 have not seen it in flower in this country. It occasionally produces enormous 

 leaves on young succulent shoots; I have gathered them 17 ins. by 12 ins. 

 Like T. americana, the branches are liable to die back. It is sometimes 

 found in gardens under the name " T. pubescens," but the true T. PUBESCENS, 

 Alton, is not in cultivation, and probably not hardy. 



T. MlQUELlANA, Maximowicz. 



A tree 40 ft. high, the young shoots, leaf-stalks, and especially the under- 

 surface of the leaves covered with a dull grey felt. Leaves broadly ovate, 



2 to 5 ins. long, i to 3^ ins. wide; heart-shaped at the base, taper-pointed, 

 coarsely toothed (sometimes lobed); dark glossy green above, without tufts 

 in the vein-axils beneath. Flowers (not yet produced in Britain) numerous, 

 sometimes over twenty on the cyme; floral bracts 3 to 4^ ins. long, f to f in. 

 wide, with scattered starry down. Fruit globose, felted, f in. long. 



Not known in a wild state, but much planted in Japan near temples; 



