Tilia 1683 



TILIA MAXIMOWICZIANA 



Tilia Maximowicziana, Shirasawa, in Bull. Coll. Agric. Univ. Tokyo, iv. 158, t. xviii (1900), and 

 Icon. Ess. Forest. Japon, ii. t. 50 (1908); Schneider, Laubholzkunde, ii. 385 (1909). 



Tilia Miqueliana, Sargent, in Garden and Forest, vi. m, fig. 19 (1893), and Forest Flora of Japan, 

 19, t. 8 (1894) (not Maximowicz). 



Tilia. Miyabei, Jack, 1 in Mitt. Deut. Dend. Ges., 1909, p. 285. 



A tree, attaining in Japan 100 ft. in height and 10 ft. in girth. Young branchlets 

 densely covered with a greyish brown tomentum. Leaves usually large, 2 about 5 in. 

 in breadth and length, cordate at the base, cuspidate at the apex ; margin ciliate, 

 coarsely and regularly serrate, the serrations ending in blunt cartilaginous points ; 

 upper surface dark green, with scattered stellate tomentum on the surface between 

 the nerves, and dense tomentum on the nerves, especially at the base of the 

 blade ; under surface greyish, densely covered with stellate tomentum, and with 

 conspicuous brownish axil-tufts at the junctions of the nerves ; petiole stout, less than 

 half the length of the blade, covered with greyish brown tomentum. Buds covered 

 with greyish or rusty brown tomentum. 



Flowers, ten to eighteen in each pendulous tomentose cyme ; bract shortly 

 stalked, strongly veined and tomentose on both surfaces, the tomentum brown and 

 very dense on the midrib ; sepals lanceolate, acuminate, pubescent on both surfaces ; 

 petals keeled, glabrous ; staminodes five, keeled, toothed at the apex, as long as 

 but narrower than the petals ; stamens sixty-five to seventy-five, united in five 

 bundles, shorter than the petals, each half of the anther on a short stalk ; ovary 

 pubescent, ovoid ; style glabrous. Fruit globose, about \ in. in diameter, with a 

 thick woody grey pubescent five-ribbed shell. 



This species is a native of Japan, ranging from central Hondo (lat. 36 ) north- 

 wards to Hokkaido. In Hondo, according to Shirasawa, 3 who has observed it in 

 the provinces of Kotsuke, Rikuchu, and Mutsu, it grows at altitudes of 800 to 

 1600 ft., in deep valleys, in mixed woods with Alnus tinctoria, Popultts Sieboldii, and 

 Quercus grosseserrata. It appears to be more common in Hokkaido, where it was 

 seen by Elwes at Sapporo and Asahigawa, in virgin forest at 500 to 750 ft. above 

 sea-level, where it attains about 100 ft. in height and forms a wide-spreading tree, 

 with a stem 10 ft. in girth. 4 Shirasawa states that its wood is of little use except 

 for firewood ; but the bark, after steeping, is plaited by the Ainos into coarse cloth 

 and mats. 



There is a small tree of this species at Grayswood, Haslemere, which the late Mr. 

 Chambers procured from the Yokohama Nursery Co. in 1894. It has not suffered 

 from frost, but is rather slow in growth. Elwes has raised plants at Colesborne from 



1 Jack proposes this name on account of the earlier use of T. Maximirwictii, Baker, in Journ. Bot. xxxvi. 319 

 (1898), an untenable name for another species. Cf. p. 1657, note 3, B. 



' Those on coppice shoots, gathered by Elwes in Hokkaido, are 8 to 10 in. long. 



3 Specimens collected by Shirasawa in different localities are now in the Kew Herbarium. 



4 Sargent says it attains 100 ft. in height in Hokkaido, where it frequently grows in company with T. japonica, which 

 is much smaller in size. Cf. p. 1657, note 3, C. 



