TILIACEAE. TILIA 365 



This is a tree of moderate size with numerous spreading branches. It is 

 common in northwest Szech'uan, where the bark is used by the peasants for 

 making sandals; it is rare elsewhere in Szech'uan and in Hupeh. The shoots are 

 glabrous, the winter-buds large, glabrous or with few long and straight hairs, and 

 the 5-ribbed fruit varies from ovoid to obovoid, and is 9 to 12 mm. long and 6 to 

 8 mm. wide. In the Hupeh specimen the shoot of the flowering branch is pruinose. 



There is no question that Maximowicz's and Diels' species are the same, but to 

 explain the confusion we can only suggest that Diels overlooked Maximowicz's 

 original description and assinned that the very different plant named T. Mique- 

 liana, var. chinensis by Szyszylowicz was identical with Maximowicz's species. 



Tilia intonsa Wilson in Herb. Kew., n. sp. ~ "TT s-^-^wCj ^ 



Tilia tonsura Veitch, New Hardy PI. W. China, 1913, 15 (nomen nudum). 



Arbor 6-20-metralis, trunco 1-3 m. in circuitu metiente, cortice 

 fusco-griseo, longitudinaliter leviter fisso lenticellis magnis ovalibus v. 

 rarius oblongis notato; ramuli hornotini dense pilis longis flavidis v. 

 pallidis vestiti, annotini glabri; gemmae ovoideae, obtusae, glabrae 

 V. fere glabrae, purpurascentes. Folia membranacea, late ovata v. 

 orbiculari-ovata, subito breviter acuminata, basi oblique cordata v. 

 truncata, argute serrata dentibus porrectis parvis mucronatis, 7-14, 

 plerumque 9-12 cm. longa et 6-12, plerumque 7-10 cm. lata, supra laete 

 luteo-viridia, glabra costa venisque sparse stellato-pilosis exceptis, sub- 

 tus pallidiora, cinereo-viridia, laxe tomento stellato-villoso obtecta et 

 in axillis venarum et venularum plus minusve fulvo-barbulata, rarius 

 fere ebarbulata, nervis utrinsecus 7-9 subtus ut trabeculae elevatis; 

 petioli 4-7 cm. longi, pilosi v. partim glabrescentes. Cymae 1-3-florae; 

 pedunculi et pedicelli crassiusculi, stellato-pilosuli; bracteae anguste 

 oblongae, obtusae, breviter stipitatae v. fere sessiles, utrinque stellato- 

 pilosae, densius in facie dorsali, infra medium pedunculo adnatae; 

 sepala ovato-lanceolata, acutiuscula, 6-8 mm. longa, extus dense 

 breviter stellato-pubescentia, intus villosa; petala, oblongo-lanceolata, 

 obtusa, 8 mm. longa et 2-2.5 mm. lata; staminodia 5, petaloidea, 

 ligulata, petal is aequilonga; stamina glabra, petalis dimidio breviora; 

 pistillum 9-10 mm. longum, ovario subgloboso 5-angulato stellato- 

 tomentoso, stylo crasso glabro, stigmate bifido. Fructus ovoideus v. 

 leviter obovoideus, 5-angulatus, 9-11 mm. longus et 6-7 mm. diam., 

 apiculatus, tomento adpresso flavido v. pallido vestitus. 



Western Szech'uan : east of Luting-chiao, Ma-ngan-shan, woods, 

 alt. 2600 m., July and October 1903 (Veitch Exped. No. 3287, type) ; 

 same locality, October 1903 (Veitch Exped. Seed No. 1569) ; northeast 

 of Tachien-lu, Ta-p'ao-shan, thickets, alt. 3000-3300 m., July 9, 1908 

 (No. 2324); Mupin woods, alt. 1600-2600 m., July and October 1908, 



