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about the middle of May : pedicels, hypanthium and exterior 

 surface of the sepals glabrous : stigmas free. 



Philadelfhus intectus was collected on the bluffs of the Cumberland river 

 below Nashville, Tennessee (type locality). From P. latifolius Schrad. 187 this 

 species may be recognized by the glabrous or glabrate leaves and by the absence 

 of pubescence on the hypanthium and exterior surface of the sepals. 



The type specimens are deposited in the Biltmore Herbarium. — C. D. Beadle. 



Biltmore Herbarium, 

 Biltmore, N. C. 



187 D. C. Prod. 3 : 206, 1828. 



