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small leaflets 
ROSACEAE. 
CHAMAEBATIA. 
(Family Rosaceae). 
Small hairy shrubs: evergreen. 
Twigs terete with quickly ex- 
foliating bark, rather slender: 
pith small, rounded, brownish, 
continuous. Buds small, oblong, 
acute, 2-edged, with 2 or 4 scales. 
Leaf-scars alternate, nearly en- 
circling the twig, triangular, ob- 
literated by the deciduous cortex 
but evident on the denuded twig 
as 3 subconfluent circles, each a 
bundle-trace: stipule-scars  lack- 
ing. Leaves subsessile, elliptical- 
ovate, thrice pinnate, with minute 
overlapping rather acute leaflets. 
Chamaebatia, like Chamaeba- 
tiaria, is a delicate evergreen with 
fern-like leaves cut into minute 
leaflets. It is easily distinguished 
from the latter genus in its more 
decompound foliage with the very 
glandular-mucronate. Neither genus is ap- 
proached in delicacy of foliage by any other flowering plant 
likely to be seen by the ordinary observer. 
Twigs glandular-bristly, very smooth when denuded. 
C. foliolosa. 
