428 BOTANICAL GAZETTE . [NOVEMBER 
or acute at apex, nearly sessile or short-stalked, glabrous with 
the exception of occasional fascicled hairs on the upper side of the 
midrib, 7-8 cm. long and 3—3.5 cm. wide, much longer than the 
peduncle; sepals acute, covered on the outer surface with pale 
pubescence and on the inner surface with soft white hairs; petals 
oblong-ovate, acuminate, a third longer than the sepals; staminodia 
obovate, gradually narrowed and cuneate at base, acute at apex. 
Fruit not seen. 
A tree 8-10 m. high, with slender, glabrous, dark red-brown branchlets. 
Flowers the first week of Jun 
Flat wet whe subject to ee San Augustine, San Aseatibtine County, 
Texas, E. J. Palmer, June 5, 1915 (no. 7889 type). 
This tree shorts perhaps be considered the type of a new species. So little 
is known of it, however, that in spite of the different serration of the smaller 
leaves and the remarkably short free portion of the peduncle of the inflorescence 
and its broader bract, it is perhaps now best considered a variety of T. nuda, 
which is common in eastern Texas. 
3. Tilia venulosa, n.sp.—Leaves broadly ovate, abruptly acu- 
minate at apex, cordate or unsymmetrically cordate or obliquely 
truncate or cordate at base, coarsely serrate, with gland-tipped teeth 
pointing forward; when they unfold, covered with pale tomentum, 
soon becoming pubescent and glabrous before the flowers open, 
dark yellow-green on the upper surface, paler on the lower surface, 
10-14 cm. long and broad, with prominent pale yellow midribs 
slightly villose on the upper side near the base, and 9 or 10 pairs 
of remote primary veins without axillary tufts and connected by 
conspicuous cross veinlets; petioles stout, glabrous, 4.5-5 cm. in 
length. Flowers 8-9 mm. long, on slightly pubescent pedicels, in 
broad, slender-branched, nearly glabrous corymbs; peduncle stout, 
glabrous, red, the free portion 2.5~4 cm. in length, the bract nearly 
sessile, oblong to slightly obovate, gradually narrowed and rounded 
at base, rounded at apex, glabrous on upper surface, pubescent 
below along the midrib and veins, 3-4 cm. wide, longer than the 
peduncle; sepals ovate, acute, pale pubescent on the outer surface, 
villose on the inner surface and furnished at the base with a tuft 
of long white hairs, a third shorter than the lanceolate acuminate 
petals; staminodia oblong-obovate, rounded at apex, about as 
long as the sepals; stigma slightly villose at base. Fruit sub- 
