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short hairs; more than half grown when the flowers open at the 

 end of May or early in June and then thin, yellow-green, glahrons 

 and paler below than above, and at maturity thin but firm in texture, 

 dark yellow-green, smooth and lustrous on the upper surface, paler 

 on the lower surface, 4.5-6 cm long and 3.5-5 cm wide, with thin 

 midribs and primary veins ; petioles slender, slightly wing-margined 

 at the apex, conspicuously glandular while young, with usually de- 

 ciduous glands, 2-2.5 cm long; leaves on vigorous shoots subcori- 

 aceous, ovate, acuminate, rounded or slightly cordate at the base, 

 coarsely serrate,- deeply lobed, often 7-8 cm long and wide, with 

 stout broad-winged coarsely glandular petioles, and linear falcate 

 glandular caducous stipules. Flowers 2-2.8 cm in diameter, on 

 long slender pedicels, in 5-8-flowered compact corymbs, with linear- 

 obovate to linear bracts and bractlets fading brown and often per- 

 sistent until the flowers open, the long lower peduncles from the 

 axils of upper leaves ; calyx-tube narrowly obconic, the lobes gradu- 

 ally narrowed from the base, long, slender, acuminate, red and 

 glandular at the apex, entire or irregularly glandular dentate, re- 

 flexed after anthesis; stamens 20; anthers pink; styles 3-5, sur- 

 rounded at the base by a narrow ring of pale tomentum. Fruit 

 on long slender drooping red pedicels, in few-fruited clusters, ripen- 

 ing and falling at the end of October, short-oblong to oval, full 

 and rounded at the ends, red, pruinose, becoming lustrous, marked 

 by large dots, 1.2-1.3 cm long, i-i.i cm in diameter; calyx promi- 

 nent, with a short tube, a wide deep cavity, broad and tomentose in 

 the bottom, and small spreading persistent lobes ; flesh green, dry 

 and hard ; nutlets 3-5, narrowed and acute at the ends or roundel 

 at the base, ridged on the back, with a high narrow slightly gr(K)ve 1 

 ridge, 'j-y 5 mm long, and 4-4.5 mm wide. 



A shrub 3 m high, with small intricately branched stems covered 

 with light gray bark, small ascending branches forming a compact 

 round-topped head, and stout straight or slightly zigzag branchlets 

 deeply tinged with red when they first appear, becoming light chest- 

 nut-brown, lustrous ard marked by numerous small dark lenticels 

 in their first season and pale gray-brown the following year, and 

 armed with slender straight light chestnut-brown shining spines 

 3.5-4 cm long. 



Rich hillsides, Coopers Plains, G. D. Cornell (.'?^98, type), Octo- 

 ber 21, 1906, June 5, 1907. 

 Anthers yellow 



