TILIACEAE 247 



Tilia mandshurica Ruprecht & Maximowicz. 



Tree to 20 m. tall. Branchlets and buds tomentose. Leaves large, 

 coarsely dentate with long pointed teeth, pubescent above, densely white 

 tomentose beneath, 10-15 cm. long. Fruit globose, tomentose, with or 

 without 5 ribs. 



Manchuria, Korea and N. China. 



Tilia henryana Szyszylowicz. 



Tree to 15 m. tall with light gray, fissured bark. Branchlets and 

 leaves in the spring covered with conspicuous white tomentum, becoming 

 less so with age. Leaves 5-13 cm. long, with bristly pointed teeth, 

 brownish tomentose beneath. Flowers 20 or more in a cyme. Fruits 

 obovoid or ovoid, 5 angled, slightly tuberculate, apiculate, to 90 mm. 

 long. 



Hupeh and Kiangsi. 



The aristate pointed leaves are characteristic. 



Tilia chinensis Maximowicz. 



Tree to 15 m. tall with numerous spreading branches; winter buds 

 large. Branchlets glabrous. Fruit ovoid to obovoid, 5 ribbed, 9-12 mm. 

 long, 6-8 mm. across. 



Hupeh and Szechuan. 



The inner bark is fibrous, used for the making of sandals. 



Other Chinese species are: 



T. paucicostata Maximowicz. 



Tree to 13 m. tall. Branchlets glabrous. Buds large, purplish. 

 Leaves about 6 cm. long, green on both sides, with long pointed teeth, 

 the tertiary veins not prominent. 



W. China. 



T. bobilis Rehder & Wilson. 



Tree 12 m. tall with very large leaves. 

 W. China. Rare. 



T. laetevirens Rehder & Wilson. 



Kansu. 

 T. intonsa Wilson. 



Is probably only a form of T. chinensis. 



