Tas. 8818. 
CRATAEGUS WartiAna. 
Baluchistan ; Central Asia. 
Rosaceak. Tribe PomMEar. F 
Cratagaus, Linn. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 626. 
Crataegus Wattiana, Hemsl. et Lace in Journ. Linn. Soc. vol. xviii. p. 323 
(1891), t. 40; Rehder in Bailey, Stand. Cyclop. Hort. vol. ii. p. 889 ; species 
C. sanguineae, Pall., proxime accedens, foliis glabris nunquam pubescentibus 
truncatis vel subcordatis nunquam cuneatis, ovario apice glabro apte 
distinguenda. 
Arbor parva, 5-6-metralis, coma laxa, patula; cortex desquamans; ramuli 
hornotini intense brunneo-purpurei, nitidi, glabri; gemmae obtusae, 
rotundatae, nitidae, intenso brunneae. Folia decidua, ramulorum flori- 
gerum late ovata, ramulorum sterilium triangularia, 3-7-10 cm. longa, 
3°5-8 cm. lata, apice acuta, basi late cuneata, truncata vel nonnunquam 
subcordata, margine utrinsecus 3-5-lobata vel -partita lobis inaequaliter 
serratis, glabra, supra saturate viridia subtus pallidiora ; petiolus 1-8—2-8 cm. 
longus. Stipulae arcuatae, semi-cordatae, 1-2-2-5 cm. longae, foliaceae, alte 
serratae. Corymbi ramulos abbreviatos foliatos terminantes, 5-7-5 cm. lati, 
multiflori ; flores albi, 1-2 cm. lati, aestate ineunti aperti; pedicelli glabri. 
Calyx 5-lobus ; tubus urceolatus; lobi triangulari-ovati, acuminati, glabri, 
tubo breviores, post anthesin reflexi. Petala alba, orbicularia, 6 mm. lata. 
Stamina 18-20 ; filamenta glabra ; antherae pallide luteae. Ovariwm apice 
glabrum ; styli saepissime 5, glabri. Fructus globosus, 1-2 cm. diametro, 
pellucidus, carnosus, luteus; pyrenes saepissime 5, securiformes, 5 mm. 
longae.—C. altaica, Lange in Rev. Sp. Gen. Crat. p. 42, t.5; C. K. Schneider, 
Handb. Laubholzk. vol. i. p. 773; Bean in Trees and Shrubs Brit. Isles, 
vol. i. p. 420.—W. J. Bran. 
Crataegus Wattiana belongs to Zabel’s section San- 
guineae, a group of Central and North Asiatic thorns 
characterised by dark shining purplish-brown young 
shoots, and a calyx whose lobes are entire and shorter 
than the tube. It is closely allied to C. sanguinea, Pall., 
with the yellow-fruited form of which it has been con- 
fused. The material for our figure was gathered from a 
tree purchased in 1900 from a continental nursery under 
the name “ C. sanguinea, var. xanthocarpa.”” The forms 
of C. sanguinea are, however, to be distinguished by the 
invariably cuneate base of the leaf, the more or less 
pubescent foliage, and the pilose summit of the ovary. 
In C. Wattiana the leaves, especially on the barren 
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