120 MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN 



A shrub 1-3 m. high, with slender stems covered with 

 smooth dark bark, small ascending branches, and slender 

 nearly straight branchlets loosely coated with long white 

 hairs when they first appear, light orange-brown and pubes- 

 cent at the end of their first season, becoming rather lighter- 

 colored the following year, and armed with very numerous 

 slender nearly straight purple ultimately ashy gray spines 3-6 

 cm. long and generally pointing toward the base of the branch. 



Limestone cliffs of Centre Creek, near Webb City, Jasper 

 County, E. J. Palmer, (No. 9 C type) May 18, 1902, October 

 4, 1907. 



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Leaves 



entire base, sharply often doubly serrate above, with straight glandular 



middle 



of small spreading acuminate lobes; nearly fully grown when the flowers 



pen 



above by short white hairs and villose-pubescent below^ and at maturity 

 rather thick, dark yellow-green, scabrate and lustrous on the upper 

 surface, paler and still villose on the lower surface especially on the stout 



ibs, and conspicuous primary veins extending very obliquely 



yellow midribs, and conspicuous primary veins 



to the points of the lobes, 5.5-8 cm. long and 4.5-6 cm. wide; petioles 

 stout, narrowly wing-margined nearly to the base, villose, occasionally 

 glandular, 1-1.5 cm. in length. Flowers 1.2-1.4 cm. in diameter, on long 

 stout villose pedicels, in wide hairy mostly 15-25-flowered corymbs, 

 the much elongated lower peduncles from the axils of upper leaves; calyx- 

 tube narrowly obconic, coated with long matted white hairs, the lobes 

 gradually narrowed from the base, long, wide, sharply glandular-serrate, 

 slightly villose, reflexed after anthesis; stamens 10; anthers bright rose 

 color; styles 2 or 3. Fruit ripening early in October, on short stout 

 slightly hairy pedicels, in few-friiited drooping clusters, short-oblong, 

 slightly narrowed and hairy at the ends, orange-red, lustrous, 7-8 mm. 

 long and 5-6 mm. in diameter; calyx little enlarged, with a deep narrow 

 cavity, and small spreading and appressed lobes; flesh thin, yellow, soft 

 and juicy; nutlets usually 2, rounded at the ends, rideed on the back. 



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A shrub 2-3 m. high, with small stems covered with pale 

 gray bark, slender nearly straight branchlets dark orange-green, 

 marked by large pale lenticels and coated with long matted 

 white hairs when they first appear, still hairy and light 



chestnut-brown at the end of their first season and dull 



