PaRT 3, 1908] ROSACEAE 259 
Stem 5-10 dm. long, more or less pubescent; stipules ovate to orbicular, double-toothed 
to laciniate, 1-2 cm. long; leaflets oblanceolate, 5-8 cm. long, acuminate, more or less 
pubescent on both sides; those of the lower leaves incised or laciniate with acuminate teeth ; 
those of the upper deeply and sharply double-serrate ; inflorescence leafy; hypanthium 4-5 
mm. long, 3-3.5 mm. thick; sepals lance-ovate, acute or somewhat acuminate; petals white 
or pinkish, 12-15 mm. long, clawed; blades oblanceolate; stamens 20, the outer 10 much 
longer; follicles 6-7 mm. long, puberulent; seeds oval, 3mm. long, longitudinally rugulose. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Pennsylvania. 
DISTRIBUTION: In woods, western New York to Kansas, Louisiana, and Georgia. 
ILLUSTRATIONS: Barton, Veg. Mat. Med. £/.6; Mem. Torrey Club 4: pl. 77; Britt. & Brown, 
Ill. Fl. f. 1889. 
Tribe 4. QUILLAJEAE. Shrubs or trees, with alternate simple leaves and 
deciduous stipules. Inflorescence cymose, paniculate, or racemose. Hypan- 
thium hemispheric to flat, with a prominent disk bearing 10-30 stamens. 
Pistils normally 5, opposite the sepals, or rarely fewer, free or in our genera 
more or less united. Seeds winged, only rarely with traces of endosperm. 
Carpels wholly united into a 5-celled capsule. 10. LINDLEVELLA. 
Carpels free above, at maturity wholly distinct. 11. VAUQUELINIA. 
10. LINDLEYELLA Rydberg. 
eros H.B.K. Nov. Gen. & Sp. 6: 239, 1823. Not Lindleya H.B.K. 1821, nor Lindleya Nees, 
Evergreen trees, with linear stipules, and shining coriaceous crenate leaves. Flowers 
perfect, solitary or in small clusters at the end of leafy branches. Hypanthium short- 
turbinate, adnate to the ovaries. Sepals 5, imbricate. Petals 5, imbricate, rounded, 
deciduous, thick. Stamens 15-25, inserted on the margin of the disk, those opposite the 
petals shorter; filaments thick, subulate ; anthers versatile. Pistils 5, opposite the sepals, 
wholly connate, forming in fruit an almost woody 5-celled capsule ; styles 5, thick; stigmas 
obliquely capitate. Cells of the capsule splitting along the dorsal sutures. Seeds 2, collat- 
eral, semi-orbicular with a thin wing ; endosperm none ; cotyledons plane ; ratlicle superior. 
Type species, Lindleya mespiloides H.B.K. 
Leaf-blades oblong-lanceolate or oblanceolate ; petals rounded-obovate, 8-10 mm. 
long. 1. ZL. mespilotdes, 
Leaf-blades obovate ; petals obovate, about 15 mm. long. 2. L. Schiedeana. 
1. Lindleyella mespiloides (H.B.K.) Rydberg. 
Lindleya mespiloides H.B.K. Nov. Gen. & Sp. 6: 240. 1823. 
A shrub or small tree, 2-3 m. high; bark of the twigs and branches dark-gray, gla- 
brous, with numerous lenticels; leaves short-petioled ; blades oblong-lanceolate or oblanceo- 
late, acute or mucronate at the apex, cuneate at the base, 1-3 cm. long, finely and densely 
toothed with glandular-mucronate teeth, strongly reticulate, glabrous and shining above, 
paler beneath ; stipules linear-subulate, glandular-toothed, 1-1.5 mm. long, early caducous ; 
pedicels very short; hypanthium turbinate, 4-5 mm. long and nearly as wide; sepals ovate, 
acute, glandular-denticulate, glabrous outside, somewhat villous within ; stamens about 20; 
filaments subulate; petals white, rounded-obovate, 8-10 mm. long, usually retuse; fruit 
rounded-ovoid, 5-angled, 7-8 mm. long and about as wide. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Between La Puente de la Madre de Dios and the village of Magdalena, 
Mexico. 
DISTRIBUTION : Mexico. 
ILLUSTRATIONS: H.B.K. Nov. Gen. & Sp. Al. 562 Lo ak Hortic. 1854: 81, 7.5; Ann. 
Soc. Agr. Bot. Gand 4: fl. 209; E. & P. Nat. Pfl. 3}: fig. 7, A 
2. Lindleyella Schiedeana Rydberg, sp. nov. 
Lindleya mesprloides Schlecht. Linnaea 13: 404. 1839. Not L. mespiloides H.B.K. 1823. 
A tree, 3 m. high or more; bark of twigs and branches dark brownish-gray, warty with 
numerous lenticels; leaves short-petioled; blades obovate, 3-4 em. long, reticulate, shin- 
