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TILIA MANDSHURICA 



Tilia mandshurica, Ruprecht et Maximowicz, in JBull. Acad. St. Pitersb. xv. 124 (1856); Maxi- 

 mowicz, Prim. Fl. Amur. 62 (1859), and in Mil. Biol. x. 586 (1880); Baker and Moore, in 

 Journ. Linn. Soc. {Bot.) xvii. 380 (1879); Franchet, PI. David, i. 60 (1884); Forbes and 

 Hemsley, in Journ. Linn. Soc. {Bot.) xxiii. 94 (1886); Komarov, in Act. Hort. Petrop. xxv. 28 



(1907). 

 Tilia pekinensis, Ruprecht, in Bull. Acad. St. Pitersb. xv. 125 (1856), and in Maximowicz, Pri7n. Fi. 

 Amur. 469 (1859); Bayer, in Verh. Zool. Bot. Ges. Wien, xii. 49 (1862). 



A tree, attaining in Manchuria about 60 ft. in height and 10 ft. in girth. Young 

 branchlets and buds covered with brownish tomentum. Leaves, 4 to 5 in. in breadth 

 and length, orbicular-ovate, usually cordate at the base, cuspidate at the apex ; 

 margin, often with one or two lobes, coarsely serrate, the teeth ending in long awn- 

 like points ; upper surface with a scattered stellate pubescence, which forms dense 

 tufts at the base of the blade ; lower surface densely covered with whitish stellate 

 tomentum, but without axil-tufts ; petiole half the length of the blade, stout, brown 

 tomentose. 



Flowers similar to those of T. tomentosa, but with bracts, pedicels, and sepals 

 more densely covered with a brownish tomentum. Fruit globose, tomentose, and 

 slightly warty, either without ribs or with five indistinct ribs towards the base. 



This species is closely allied to T. tomentosa ; but has larger leaves, with long- 

 pointed serrations and different fruit. Young trees have usually lobed leaves, as is 

 often the case in other species ; and T.pekinensis} founded on this character, cannot 

 be retained even as a distinct variety. 



Tilia mandshurica is widely spread throughout the whole of Manchuria, and 

 also occurs in Korea, where it was found on the Diamond Mountains by Pere Faurie. 

 It is not uncommon in the mountains west and north of Peking. It occurs scattered 

 or in groups throughout the broad -leaved forest of these regions. It is known to the 

 Chinese, like all the other species of lime, as the tuan tree ; and the bark is used for 

 making ropes and sandals. 



It was probably introduced by Maximowicz into the St. Petersburg botanic 

 garden ; but is extremely rare in cultivation, the only specimen which I have seen 

 being a small tree at Kew, which was procured from Booth of Hamburg in 1871. 

 As it comes into leaf very early in the spring, it is often cut by frost, and is not in a 

 thriving condition. (A. H.) 



' Vz.x. pekinensis, Engler, ex Schneider, Laubholzkunde, ii. 384 (1909). 



