twigs, are often truncate or even slightly cordate, the 
foliage is perfectly glabrous, as is also the summit of 
the ovary. The type specimen of C. Wattiana in the 
Kew Herbarium was collected by Mr. J. H. Lace in 1888 
in the Urak Gorge, Baluchistan, at 7,200 feet, and it 
was named three years later by Messrs. Hemsley and 
Lace in their paper on the vegetation of that country, 
published in the Journal of the Linnean Society. The 
name “altaica” first appeared in 1838 in Loudon’s 
“ Arboretum et Fruticetum Britannicum” (vol. ii. 
p- 823), where it is quoted as ‘‘C. altaica, Ledebour in 
Loddiges’ Catalogue,’ and reduced to C. purpurea, 
var. altaica. In 1897 the name was taken up by Lange 
in the work cited above, but it is doubtful whether his 
plant and the one now figured be identical with that 
mentioned by Loudon as growing in the nursery of Messrs. 
Loddiges at Hackney in 1837. Even assuming its validity, 
Lange’s name is superseded by Hemsley and Lace’s older 
one. The greatest beauty of C. Wattiana is in August, when 
its fruits become ripe and acquire that clear and remarkably 
translucent vellow colour which makes them so distinct 
from the fruits of any other Crataegus we cultivate. 
The flesh is soft, and when once fully ripe the haws soon 
begin to fall from the branches. The tree at Kew is fifteen 
feet in height. ! 
Descrrption.—Tree, probably not exceeding 20 ft. in height when full-grown, 
unarmed, with a lax spreading head of branches ; bark of trunk peeling ; young 
he dark brownish-purple, shining, glabrous ; winter-buds blunt and rounded, 
ark shining brown. Leaves deciduous, broadly ovate on the fertile shoots, 
triangular on the barren ones ; 14-4 in. long, 11-3} in. wide ; apex acute, base 
broadly cuneate to truncate, margins with 3-5 pointed lobes at each side, 
pope occasionally reaching nearly to the mid-rib; petiole 3-1} in. long. 
: tpules arcuate, semi-cordate, }—1 in. long, foliaceous, jagged-serrate. C 
erminal on short leafy twigs, 2-3 in. across, many-flowered, each flower about 
bos wide, white, opening in May; pedicels glabrous. Calyx with an urceolate 
“ and 5 triangular-ovate acuminate glabrous lobes, shorter than the tube, 
exed after pollination. Petals white, orbicular, } in. wide. Stamens 18-20 ; 
u mate a glabrous ; anthers pale yellow. Ovary glabrous at the summit ; styles 
aes y 5, glabrous. Fruit globose, } in. wide, clear translucent yellow ; flesh 
soft; pyrenes usually 5, hatchet-shaped, 1 in. long. 
Tan. 8818s. 1; Sower bad. 6 oe : oo 
removed ; 3 and 4, stamens :—all onlay re as in vertical section, the pe 
