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shoots. Henry says that its flowers are similar to those of that species, but 

 smaller. His specimens in the Kew Herbarium show the fruit to be oval or 

 globose, ^ to ^ in. long, warted, white with down. 



T. ORBICULARIS, Jouin. 



This tree originated in the nursery of Messrs Simon-Louis, near Metz, 

 about 1870. Mr E. Jouin, who described it and gave its history in La 

 Semaine Horticole, Aug. 26, 1899, says that it was raised from a seed of 

 T. petiolaris, and he offers the suggestion that it maty be a hybrid between 

 that species and T. euchlora. It much resembles T. petiolaris, but the 

 leaves (of a very glossy green above) have shorter stalks, and the felt on the 

 under-surface is grey rather than silvery. They remain on the trees until 

 late October. The branches are pendulous, and, according to M. Jouin, the 

 tree is of very vigorous growth and forms a conical head. Young trees at 

 Kew thrive admirably and give every indication of making fine specimens. 



T. PAUCICOSTATA, Maximowicz. 



A small deciduous tree, the young shoots smooth. Leaves very obliquely 

 ovate, the base cut straight across in a slanting direction or slightly heart- 

 shaped, the apex acuminate, margins conspicuously and fairly regularly 

 toothed except at the apex and the base; 2 to 3^ ins. long and i^ to 2^ ins. 

 wide in adult trees, much larger (up to 5 or 6 ins. long) in young, cultivated 

 ones; dull dark green and smooth above, green beneath, and with tufts of 

 rusty brown down in the axils of the veins, but not at the base, where the 

 main veins join the leaf-stalk; stalk smooth, f to i^ ins. long. The 

 species has not yet flowered in cultivation, but in wild specimens the cymes 

 carry seven to fifteen flowers, the bract is smooth, 2 to 3 ins. long. Fruit 

 roundish or slightly obovate. 



Native of W. China; discovered in the province of Kansu by Potanin in 

 1875. The plant is believed to have been grown at Coombe Wood under the 

 name "T. Miqueliana var. chinensis," having been introduced in 1901 by 

 Wilson. The leaves of this plant, however, are more downy beneath, 

 especially at the base of the blade, than in wild adult specimens. There is 

 nothing yet to be said of its merits as a garden tree except that it seems 

 quite hardy. It appears to most closely resemble T. cordata in general 

 aspect and differs much from ordinary T. Miqueliana. 



T. PETIOLARIS, De Candolle. PENDENT SILVER LIME. 



(Bot. Mag., t. 6737 ; T. americana pendula, Hort.) 



A round-topped tree, 60 to 80 ft. high at present in Britain, probably 

 100 ft. high ultimately, with pendulous branches and a singularly graceful 

 habit; young shoots downy. Leaves roundish ovate, heart-shaped or nearly 

 straight across at the base, mostly oblique, pointed, regularly and sharply 

 toothed; 2 to 4^ ins. long, about three-fourths as wide; dark green and 

 slightly downy above, white with a close felt beneath; stalk downy, up to 2^ 

 ins. long. Flowers dull white, three to ten together in drooping cymes 

 2 to, 3 ins. long. Floral bract as long as the cymes, narrowly obovate, 

 sprinkled with minute tufted down. Fruit globose to orange-shaped, 

 grooved, warty, ^ in. wide. 



Of doubtful origin, but, if truly wild, a native no doubt of E. Europe. 

 Some authorities consider it a garden form of T. tomentosa, which it 

 resembles in some particulars, but is very distinct in its weeping habit, the 



