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veins connected by conspicuous cross veinlets; petioles stout, slightly 

 wing-margined at the apex, sparingly glandular, with minute deciduous 

 glands, 2,5-3 cm. in length; leaves on vigorous shoots thicker, with shorter 

 glandular petioles rose-colored towards the base. Flowers about 2.5 cm. 

 in diameter, on short stout pedicels, in small compact mostly 5-10-flowered 

 corjiiibs, with lanceolate to hnear-obovate glandular bracts and bractlets 

 usually persistent until the flowers open, the lower peduncles from the 

 axils of upper leaves; calyx-tube broadly obconic, the lobes separated 

 by wide sinuses, short, broad, acuminate, coarsely glandular-serrate, 

 sparingly villose on the inner surface, reflexed after anthcsis ; stamens 20 ; 

 anthers white; styles 5, surrounded at the base by a broad ring of pale 

 tomcntum. Fruit ripening early in October, on short stout spreading 

 pedicels, in 2- or 3-fruited clusters, broader tlian high, distinctly 5-angIed, 

 rounded at the wide apex, truncate at the base, with a deep depression at 

 the insertion of the pedicel, scarlet, pruinose, becoming very lustrous, 

 marked by numerous large pale dots, 1.8-2.2 cm. broad and 1.6-1.8 cm. 

 high ; calyx without a tube, with a broad deep cavity narrow and tomentose 

 in the bottom, and deciduous lobes; flesh thin, light yellow slightly tinged 

 w^ith red, dry and mealy, with a pleasant flavor; remaining on the ground 

 through the winter without becoming soft; nutlets 5, thin, acute at the 

 apex, rounded at the base, rounded and slightly grooved or ridged on the 

 back, with a low grooved ridge, 5.5-6 mm. long, and 5-5.5 mm. wide. 



A tree G-7 m. high, with a tall trunk 1.2-1.5 dm. in diameter, 

 large ascending and spreading branches, and stout nearly 



branchlets 



very 



red-brown 



the following year, and armed 



5-5 cm 



W. Fullgraf 



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The fruit of this species is the largest and handsomest I 

 have seen on any plant in this group. 



11. Crataegus locnples, n. sp. 



Leaves ovate, acuminate, rounded or subcordate at the broad base, 

 sharply often doubly serrate, with long straight glandular teeth, and 

 divided into 4 or 5 pairs of broad acuminate lateral lobes; deeply tinged 

 with red when they unfold, about one-third grown when the flowers open 

 the middle of April and then thin, yellow-green, roughened above by short 

 white hairs and villose on the midribs and veins below, and at maturity 

 thin, dark yellow-green, glabrous and lustrous on the upper surface, 

 lighter- colored and glabrous on the lower surface with the exception of 



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