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at the apex, concave-ciineate or rounded at the entire base, sharply 

 doubly serrate above, with straight glandular teeth, and slightly divided 

 into 3 or 4 pairs of short acute or acuminate spreading lobes ; when they 

 unfold reddish-bronze color, pubescent above and glabrous below with 

 the exception of small axillary tufts of pale pubescence sometimes per- 

 sistent during the season, about half-grown when the flowers open dur- 

 ing the second week in May and then slightly roughened above by short 

 white hairs, and at matiu-ity membranaceous, dark green, scabrate and 

 lustrous on the upper and pale or glaucous on the lower surface; 3-5 

 cm. long and 2.5-4 cm. wide, with slender midribs, and thin primary 

 veins extending oblicpiely to the points of the lobes, turning yellow or 

 orange-yellow occasionally tinged with red before falling ; petioles slen- 

 der, nearly terete, slightly wing-margined at the apex, at first puberu- 

 lous, soon glabrous, sparingly glandular, with minute often persistent 

 glands, 1.5-3 cm. in length; stipules ligulate to falcate, glandular, fad- 

 ing rose color, caducous; leaves on vigorous leading shoots ovate, trun- 

 cate to cordate at the broad base, more deeply lobed and often deeply 

 cleft below the middle, sometimes 8-9 cm. long and 6-7.5 cm. wide, 

 with stout winged conspicuously glandular petioles. Floivers 1.6-2 cm. 

 in diameter on long slender glabrous pedicels, in 3-15. usually 8-10- 

 flowered corymbs, with obovate to linear glandular bracts and bractlets, 

 mostly persistent until after the flowers open; calyx-tube broadly 

 obconic, the lobes slender, acuminate, entire, without glands, glabrous 

 or minutely pubescent toward the reddish apex, reflexed after anthesis; 

 stamens 5-8. usually 5; anthers pink or rose-pink; styles 2-4, usually 

 3, surrounded at the base by a broad ring of hoary tomentum. Fruit 

 ripening late in SeptemJDer and falling with the leaves, on slender pedi- 

 cels, in few-fruited drooping clusters, obovate to obovate-oblong or 

 rarely subglobose, concave at the base, slighth^ concave or rounded at 

 the apex, red or reddish-scarlet, marked by russet or greenish-orange 

 blotches, dull or lustrous, covered with a glaucous bloom, rarely puber- 

 ulous at the ends, 1.2-1.6 cm. long, 1.1-1.5 cm. wide; calyx somewhat 

 enlarged, with a short tube, a wide shallow cavity, and spreading often 

 erect and incurved lobes red on the upper side below the middle; flesh 

 orange or orange-yellow freciuently tinged with red, soft, juicy and acid ; 

 nutlets 2-4, acute at the ends, ridged on the back, with a deeply grooved 

 ridge, 7-8.5 mm. in length. 



A shrub or slender tree occasionally 3-4 m. high, with a short more 

 or less flattened or angled trunk rarely 1.8 cm. in diameter, and covered 

 with rough gray scaly bark, numerous ascending or semi-erect slender 

 flexuose branches, and slender slightly zigzag branchlets marked by 



