22 Rhodora [FEBRUARY 
naeus, and with C. mollis, Scheele, can always be readily distinguished 
by its thin drooping oval leaves which, except on vigorous shoots, 
are frequently convex by the gradual infolding of the blades from the 
midribs to the margins. 
FLABELLATAE. 
C. lobulata. Leaves oval to oblong-ovate, acute, cuneate or 
rounded at the entire base, deeply divided above into numerous nar- 
row acute lobes, sharply and often doubly serrate with spreading 
glandular teeth, coated above until after the opening of the flowers 
with short soft pale hairs and slightly puberulous below on the slender 
midribs and thin arching primary veins, at maturity membranaceous, 
dark yellow-green and glabrous on the upper surface, paler and 
slightly villose below toward the base of the midribs with occasional 
short pale hairs, from 24 to 34 in. long and from 2 to 2j in. wide; 
petioles slender, nearly terete, sometimes glandular on vigorous 
shoots, coated at first with short matted tomentum, ultimately slightly 
villose or nearly glabrous, bright red, from 1 to r4 in. long. Flowers ł 
in. in diameter, in rather compact thin-branched tomentose compound 
cymes; bracts and bractlets linear-lanceolate, glandular-serrate, 
bright red; calyx narrow, dark red, glabrous or villose toward the 
base, the lobes linear, acuminate, glandular-serrate with stipitate red 
glands, glabrous; stamens ro; filaments slender; anthers small; 
styles 3 to s. Fruit in compact erect slightly tomentose clusters, 
oblong, somewhat flattened at the full and rounded ends, bright 
crimson, lustrous, marked by occasional small white lenticels, about 
3 in. long and in. thick; calyx cavity deep and narrow, the lobes 
small, lanceolate, coarsely glandular-serrate, tomentose on the upper 
surface, erect and incurved, persistent; flesh thick, yellow, sweet 
and juicy; nutlets 3 to 5, thin, dark-colored, ridged and often 
grooved on the back, 3 in. long. 
A tree occasionally 35 feet in height with a tall trunk often a foot 
in diameter covered with dark red-brown scaly bark, stout usually 
ascending branches forming an open irregular head, and slender 
branchlets at first dark green and tomentose, becoming bright chest- 
nutbrown and lustrous during their first season and light orange- 
brown during their second year, and sparingly armed with short stout 
chestnut-brown spines rarely more than an inch in length. Flowers 
during the last week of May. Fruit ripens and falls early in October. 
Vermont, Middlebury, Æ. Brainerd, May and September, 1900; 
Charlotte, A Z. Horsford, August, 1900; near Burlington, Z. &. 
Jones, October, 1899: New York, Crown Point, Æ. Brainerd, Sep- 
tember, 1899, Æ. Brainerd & C. S. Sargent, September, 1900. 
Well distinguished from the related C. Ho/mesiana by its more 
deeply divided and greener leaves, by its tomentose cymes, larger 
flowers, more numerous stamens, and by its late-ripening fruit. 
