TILIACEyE 



leaves on leading summer branchlets sometimes obliquely cordate, more coarsely serrate, 

 covered on the upper surface with short fascicled hairs, and floccose-pubescent on the lower 

 surface, 4>'-5' long and 4'-4j' wide, their petioles puberulous. Flowers opening the middle 

 of May, i' long, on tomentose pedicels, in compact pubescent many-flowered cymes; pedun- 

 cle slender, glabrous, the free portion only f -f ' in length, its bract oblong, occasionally 



Fig. 664 



slightly obovate, rounded at the ends, hoary -tomentose on the under surface and pubescent 

 on the upper surface w r hen it first appears, and when the flowers open puberulous below and 

 glabrous above, 3^'-6' long, '-f ' wide and shorter than and decurrent to the base of the 

 peduncle; sepals ovate, acuminate, pale pubescent on the outer surface, villose at the base 

 on the inner surface, a third shorter than the lanceolate acuminate petals; staminodia ob- 

 long-obovate, rounded at apex, about half the length of the petals; style glabrous. Fruit 

 ripening the middle of July, globose to depressed-globose, covered with loose brown to- 

 mentum, \' in diameter. 



A small tree with slender dull red glabrous branchlets, the leading branchlets in summer 

 more or less pubescent. Winter-buds ovoid, acute, dull red, glabrous or pubescent on 

 leading shoots, i'-|' long. 



Distribution. Louisiana, river banks and low woods, Lake Charles and West Lake 

 Charles, Calcasieu Parish. 



8. Tilia neglecta Spach. 

 Tilia Michauxii Sarg., not Nutt. 



Leaves thick and firm, acute or abruptly narrowed and long-pointed at apex, obliquely 

 concave or unsymmetrically,cordate at base, coarsely serrate with straight apiculate teeth 

 pointing forward, dark green, smooth, glabrous and lustrous above, covered below except 

 on the midrib and veins more or less thickly with short gray pubescence often slightly 

 tinged with brown, and furnished with conspicuous tufts of axillary hairs, usually 4'-5j' 

 long and 2'-4-J' wide; petioles stout, glabrous, lj'-2' in length. Flowers opening in 

 June and July about f ' long, on pubescent or nearly glabrous pedicels, in long-branched 

 slender glabrous mostly 5-15-flowered cymes; peduncle slender, glabrous, the free portion 

 li'-H' in length, its bract gradually narrowed and cuneate or unsymmetrically cuneate 

 or rounded at base, rounded at apex, glabrous, %l'-4t\' long, f '-!' wide and longer than 

 and decurrent nearly to the base or to within |' of the base of the peduncle; sepals 

 broad-ovate, acute, ciliate on the margins, glabrous on the outer surface, covered on the 

 inner surface with long white hairs, about half as long as the lanceolate petals rounded and 

 notched at apex and rather longer than the spatulate staminodia; stamens included; stvle 



