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acuminate spreading lobes, nearly half grown when the flowers 

 open at the end of May and then thin, yellow green, slightly rough- 

 ened and villose-pubescent above along the midribs, pale and fur- 

 nished below with small tufts of axillary hairs, at maturity thin, 

 but firm in texture, glabrous, dull yellow green and very smooth 

 on the upper, paler on the lower surface, 6-9 cm long and 4-6 cm 

 wide, with stout yellow midribs, and slender primary veins deeply 

 impressed on the upper side, petioles stout, broadly wing-margined 

 nearly to the middle, grooved on the upper side, sHghtly villose 

 while young, soon glabrous, sparingly glandular, with persistent 

 glands, often rose-colored in the autumn, 1.5-2 cm in length. 

 Flowers 1.5-1.7 cm in diameter, on long stout slightly villose pedi- 

 cels, in usually 10 to 12-flowered wide lax corymbs, the lowest 

 peduncle from the axil of an upper leaf; calyx tube narrowly obconic, 

 glabrous or slightly hairy about the base, the lobes slender, acu- 

 minate, glandular on the margins, with minute stipitate glands, 

 glabrous on the outer, villose on the inner surface; stamens 20; 

 filaments elongated; anthers red; styles two to four, surrounded 

 at the base by a few scattered white hairs. Fruit ripening early in 

 October, on short stout slightly hairy reddish pedicels, in broad 

 long-branched few-fruited drooping clusters, subglobose, scarlet, 

 lustrous, marked by large pale dots, about 1.2 cm in diameter; 

 calyx little enlarged, with a broad shallow cavity, and spreading 

 or incurved coarsely serrate lobes mostly persistent on the ripe 

 fruit; flesh yellow, soft and succulent; nutlets two or three, broad 

 and rounded at the base, shghtly narrowed and rounded at the 

 apex, rounded and only slightly ridged on the back, penetrated 

 on the inner faces by small shallow irregular cavities about 7 

 mm long, 4-5 mm wide. 



A shrub 6-7 m high, with numerous ascending stems covered 

 with dark scaly bark and spreading into large thickets, and slender 

 nearly straight branchlets marked by small oblong pale lenticels, 

 dark orange-green and puberulent when they first appear, becoming 

 bright chestnut-brown, lustrous and bright red brown in their 

 second year, and armed with very numerous slender nearly straight 

 purplish shining spines 4.5-6 cm long. 



Menands, Golf ground, Charles H. Peck (# i gg, type). May 

 and October 1904; July and September 1905. 



Anthers pale yellow 

 Crataegus ambrosia n. sp. Sarg. 

 Leaves ovate to elliptic or subrhomboidal, short-pointed or acu- 

 minate at the apex, rounded or abruptly and gradually concave 



