about fifteen feet high, and is perfectly hardy, was 
received from the Jardin des Plantes, Paris, in 1891. It 
is one of the handsomest of Thorns both in its flowers 
and in its yellow fruits, which are valuable from the 
cultural standpoint for the length of time that they 
remain upon the branches; often they do not fall until 
February. | 
DrscripTion.—7ree, 15-35 ft. high, sometimes armed 
with spines up to 13 in. long spreading at right angles 
from the twigs; young shoots white-villous, soon be- 
coming glabrous; old shoots tawny or brown- or grey- 
tawny; buds subglobose, obtuse, glabrous. Leaves rather 
scattered, rarely close together on abbreviated shoots ; 
from subelliptic or obovate to oblanceolate, usually acute, 
cuneately narrowed to the base, once to twice serrate- 
crenate, at least beyond the middle, sometimes from 
the middle to the base entire, occasionally—and more 
particularly on suckers—the leaves coarsely toothed or 
almost lobed, very rarely distinctly 3-lobed, 1}—3} in. 
long, 3-1} in. wide, green, when adult subcoriaceous, 
becoming red or orange-coloured in autumn, at first 
finely pilose above, soon becoming smooth, beneath 
villous on the nerves, elsewhere loosely or very loosely 
pubescent, lateral nerves 5-7 on each side the midrib, 
oblique, slightly curved, running out into the teeth, 
sunk above and raised beneath; petioles {—% in. long, 
often slightly winged by the decurrent leaf-blade, 
pubescence as on the leaf; stipules usually foliaceous, 
often falcate-linear or lanceolate and rather distinctly 
persistent, sometimes linear and thinner and caducous, 
entire or nearly so, the margins glandular or not. 
Corymbs 6-15-flowered, more or less white- or hoary- 
villous, rarely almost glabrous; bracts like the stipules ; 
pedicels up to ? in. long. Receptacle turbinate, some- 
what villous, }-% in. deep, disk reddish, } in. across. 
Sepals linear-lanceolate or linear, entire or sparingly 
toothed at the tip, usually eglandular, pilose, }—} in. 
long, persistent, in fruit usually suberect. Petals white, 
obovate-rounded, about } in. long. Stamens 15-20; 
anthers pubescent. Styles usually 2 or 3, sometimes 
4 or 5, pilose at the base. uit short-pyriform or 
