502 BOTANICAL GAZETTE [DECEMBER 
short-stalked, obovate, cuneate at base, broad and rounded at 
apex, floccose pubescent on the lower surface, nearly glabrous on 
the upper surface; sepals acuminate, pale pubescent on the outer 
surface, villose along the margins and furnished at the base on the 
inner surface with a tuft of long white hairs, broader and shorter 
than the lanceolate acuminate petals; staminodia oblong-obovate, 
rounded at apex, style glabrous except at the base. Fruit ellip- 
soidal, covered with rusty tomentum, 8-10 mm. long and 6-7 mm. 
wide, on stout, densely floccose-pubescent pedicels. 
A tree with slender, light gray-brown, often zigzag branchlets covered when 
they first appear with fascicled hairs, deciduous during their first summer. 
Winter-buds ovate, obtusely pointed, ie reddish brown, glabrous, 4-5 mm. 
long. Flowers the middle of June. Fruit ripens the end of September. 
Banks of Spring Creek, near Boerne, Kendall County, Texas, E. J. Palmer, 
September 27, 1916 (no. 10825 type); April 7 and 11 and June 13, 1917 (nos. 
11486, 11593, 12242). 
TILIA PHANERA var. scabrida, n. var.—Tuilia pubescens var. a 
Aitonii f. gymnophylia V. Engler, Monog. Tilia 130 (in part). 1909. 
—Differing from the type in the scabrate lower surface of the 
leaves. Leaves broadly ovate, cordate at base, abruptly short- 
pointed at apex; when they unfold pubescent above with scattered 
straight white hairs and hoary tomentose below, and at maturity 
thin, yellow-green and glabrous above and roughened below by the 
persistent bases of fascicled hairs, 10 cm. long and broad; petioles 
2-2.5 cm. in length. Flowers not collected. Fruit on tomentose 
pedicels, ovoid to subglobose, covered with pale reddish tomentum. 
A small tree with dark deeply ridged bark and glabrous branchlets. 
On a low limestone bluff of the Blanco River, near Blanco, Blanco County, 
Texas, J. Reverchon, July 1885 (no. 1500 type), E. J. Palmer, April 16 and 
September 24, 1917 (nos. 11565, 12858); College Station, Brazos County, 
Texas, B. F. Bush, July 4, 1900 (nos. 1015, i Velasco, Brazoria County, 
Texas, E. J. Palmer, March 21, 1918 (no. 13 
12. Tilia lasioclada, n. sp.—Leaves ovate, abruptly catia at 
apex into short acuminate points, oblique and truncate or on weak 
branchlets, often nearly symmetrical and deeply cordate at base, 
and finely serrate with straight apiculate teeth; when they unfold 
covered above with soft caducous hairs, pubescent below, and at 
