500 BOTANICAL GAZETTE [DECEMBER 
10. Tilia texana, n. sp.—Tuilia pubescens var. B Ventenatii 
V. Engler Monog. Tilia 129 (in part). 1909.—-Leaves thin, oblong- 
ovate, abruptly contracted into long slender acuminate points, 
cordate or obliquely cordate at base, finely dentate with broad 
apiculate teeth; early in the season pubescent above with scattered 
fascicled hairs and covered below with brownish, slightly attached 
pubescence, and in the autumn light yellow-green, lustrous and 
nearly glabrous on the upper surface, slightly pubescent on the 
lower surface, 10-14 cm. long and 8-10 cm. wide, with slender mid- 
ribs and primary veins sparingly villose on the upper side and nearly 
glabrous on the lower side, and small axillary tufts of brownish 
hairs; petioles slender, pubescent with fascicled hairs, 2.5-4 cm. 
in length; leaves on vigorous shoots often furnished with one or two 
large, lateral, acuminate, serrate lobes, more coarsely dentate and 
more thickly covered on the lower surface with pubescence, often 
13-15 cm. long and 9-15 cm. wide. Flowers 6-7 mm. long on 
slender tomentose pedicels in small, villose-pubescent, mostly 7—10- 
flowered corymbs; peduncle slender, slightly villose-pubescent, the 
free portion 3—3.5 cm. in length, the bract oblong-ovate to slightly 
obovate, unsymmetrically cuneate at base, rounded and occa- 
sionally lobed at apex, glabrous on the upper surface, densely 
pubescent early in the season, later becoming nearly glabrous on 
the lower surface, longer or shorter than the peduncle; sepals 
ovate, acute, pale pubescent on the outer surface, covered on the 
inner surface with white hairs longer and more abundant near the 
base; petals lanceolate, acuminate, a third longer than the sepals; 
staminodia linear-lanceolate, acuminate; style hoary tomentose at 
the base. Fruit ellipsoidal, covered with rusty brown tomentum, 
8-9 mm. long and 5-6 mm. in diameter. 
A small tree with slender branchlets thickly covered during their first 
season with close pale pubescence, and pale and puberulous or glabrous in 
their second year. Winter-buds ovate, obtusely pointed, thickly covered with 
pale pubescence, 4-5 mm. long. On vigorous terminal branchlets the pubes- 
cence is thicker ahd light rusty brown. 
Trexas.—Columbia, Brazos County, B. F. Bush, October 18, 1900 (no. 
1570), September 25, rgor (no. 914); Houston, Harris County, E. J. Palmer, 
September 17, rors (no. 8578), April 29, 1916 (nos. 9608, 9610); Larissa, Chero- 
kee County, June 3 and September 22, 191 5 (nos. 7845, 8620); on Spring Creek, 
