ROSACE. SILVA OF NORTH AMERICA. 91 
CRATAiGUS BERLANDIERI. 
Haw. 
STAMENS 20; anthers yellow. Leaves oblong-obovate to oval, gradually narrowed 
and cuneate below, thin, dark green, and lustrous. 
Crategus Berlandieri, Sargent, Bot. Gazette, xxxi. 230 (1901). 
A tree, from fifteen to twenty feet in height, with a tall straight stem eight or ten inches in 
diameter covered with thin dark brown furrowed bark, and spreading branches forming a broad open 
head. The branchlets are slender, slightly zigzag, marked by occasional oblong dark lenticels, and 
unarmed, or armed with few straight gray spines about an inch in length; coated with hoary tomentum 
when they first appear, they become puberulous, dull reddish brown or yellow-brown by midsummer, 
and ashy gray late in the autumn or during the following season. The leaves are oblong-obovate or 
oval, acute or acuminate at the apex, and gradually narrowed, cuneate and entire below the middle, 
unequally divided above into numerous acute or acuminate lobes, and coarsely and often doubly serrate, 
with broad straight or incurved gland-tipped teeth; when the flowers open from the middle to the end 
of March they are coated above with short pale caducous hairs, and below with thick hoary tomentum ; 
and at maturity they are thin but firm in texture, glabrous, dark green, and very lustrous on the upper 
surface, pale and pubescent below, and usually about three inches long and two inches wide, with slender 
midribs, remote primary veins extending to the points of the lobes and only slightly impressed on the 
upper side, conspicuous secondary veins, and reticulate veinlets; they are borne on stout petioles more 
or less winged toward the apex, tomentose at first but finally pubescent, and from one half to three 
quarters of an inch in length. The stipules are falcate, long-pointed, entire or finely glandular-serrate, 
villose, and about a quarter of an inch long. On vigorous leading shoots the leaves are often five 
inches long and three inches wide, with rounded or acute lobes, and foliaceous, lunate, coarsely 
glandular-dentate stipules frequently half an inch in length. The flowers are three quarters of an inch 
in diameter, and are produced on stout elongated pedicels covered with hoary tomentum, which also 
clothes the stout lax branches of the broad loose many-flowered compound corymbs, with oblong-obovate 
or lanceolate finely glandular-serrate villose conspicuous bracts and bractlets. The calyx-tube is broadly 
obconic, covered with thick pale tomentum, and the lobes are broad, acute, very coarsely glandular- 
serrate, tomentose on the outer surface, villose on the inner surface, and reflexed after the flowers open. 
There are twenty stamens with slender elongated filaments and small yellow anthers, and five styles 
surrounded at the base by tufts of white hairs. The fruit, which ripens after the middle of October 
and hangs in loose drooping clusters, is short-oblong to subglobose, scarlet, and about half an inch 
long ; the calyx-cavity is deep and broad, and the much enlarged lobes are coarsely serrate, villose, erect, 
and persistent ; the flesh is thin, yellow, dry, and mealy. The five nutlets are rounded and occasionally 
obscurely grooved on the back, and about a quarter of an inch long. 
Crategus Berlandieri inhabits low rich woods on the bottom-lands of the Brazos River near 
Columbia and Brazoria, Texas, where it is not common and where it was first collected’ in 1828 by 
Berlandier,? whose specimens of this handsome tree were usually referred to Crategus tomentosa until 
the collections made by Mr. B. F. Bush* in 1899 and 1900 showed its true characters. 
1 As shown by Berlandier’s specimens in Herb. Gray (Nos. 267 2 See i. 82. 
and 356). 3 See vii. 110. 
