ROSACEA. SILVA OF NORTH AMERICA. 177 
CRATZEGUS BLANDA. 
Haw. 
STAMENS 20; anthers canary-yellow. Leaves oval to rhombic, acute, or acumi- 
nate. 
Cratzgus blanda, Sargent, Bot. Gazette, xxxiii. 121 (1902). 
A nearly glabrous unarmed tree, from twenty-five to thirty feet in height, with a tall trunk ten 
or twelve inches in diameter covered with dark brown or nearly black bark divided by shallow fissures 
and broken on the surface into small plate-like scales, and stout ascending branches forming a broad 
open uregular head. The branchlets are slender, nearly straight, glabrous, and marked by large 
scattered pale lenticels ; and when they first appear they are dark orange-green, becoming dull red- 
brown during their first season, and darker brown the following year. The leaves vary from oval to 
rhombic, and are acute or acuminate and occasionally slightly lobed toward the apex, broadly cuneate 
or concave-cuneate at the entire base, and coarsely crenulate-serrate above the middle, with gland-tipped 
teeth ; coated with soft pale hairs when they unfold, they are fully grown when the flowers open about 
the first of May, and are then membranaceous, dark green and lustrous above and glabrous below, 
with the exception of large tufts of snow-white tomentum in the axils of the primary veins, from an 
inch and a half to two inches in length and from an inch to an inch and a half in width, and in the 
autumn they are subcoriaceous, yellow-green and lustrous on the upper surface and paler on the lower 
surface, with slender midribs deeply impressed above, and two or three pairs of thin primary veins 
extending very obliquely toward the apex of the leaf ; they are borne on slender petioles slightly winged 
above, villose at first along the upper side but soon glabrous, and from three quarters of an inch to an 
inch long. On vigorous leading shoots the leaves are often broadly ovate, full and rounded at the 
base, more deeply lobed above the middle, from two inches to two inches and a half in length, and 
from an inch and a half to two inches in width. The stipules are linear-lanceolate, entire, from one 
third to one quarter of an inch long, and caducous. The flowers, which are an inch in diameter, are 
borne on slender elongated pedicels, in broad many-flowered compound glabrous corymbs, with linear 
entire bracts and bractlets. The calyx-tube is broadly obconic and glabrous, and the lobes, which are 
gradually narrowed from broad bases, are acuminate, entire or obscurely dentate, glabrous, and reflexed 
after the flowers open. There are twenty stamens with small canary-yellow anthers, and five styles. 
The fruit ripens about the middle of October, and is produced in many-fruited drooping clusters ; it is 
subglobose or short-oblong, bright orange-red, marked by few large pale dots, a quarter of an inch in 
diameter, and crowned by the prominent calyx, with a broad deep cavity and spreading lobes which 
are usually deciduous before the fruit ripens; the flesh is thin, yellow, dry, and mealy. The five 
nutlets are thin, deeply grooved on the back, pale brown, and three quarters of an inch in length. 
Crategus blanda was discovered in April, 1901, by W. M. Canby, B. F. Bush, and C. 8S. Sargent, 
growing on dry uplands and low rolling hills near Fulton on the Red River in southern Arkansas. 
