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puberulous, i'-i' in length. Fruit on glabrous pedicels shorter or slightly longer than 

 the petioles, short-oblong, canary yellow, about j' long. 





Fig. 296 



A small tree with slender glabrous red-brown branchlets. 



Distribution. Central and southern Arizona. 



More distinct is the common Celtis of western Texas which has been described as 



Celtis laevigata var. texana Sarg. 



Leaves ovate to lanceolate, acuminate, unsymmetrically rounded or cordate at base, 

 entire or sparingly and irregularly serrate, often subcoriaceous, dark green, smooth and 

 granulate or rarely rough above, green below, with a slender midrib and primary veins 

 glabrous or sparingly villose-pubescent and furnished with small tufts of axillary hairs, 

 and only slightly raised reticulate veinlets, l'-3' long and f'-lj' wide; petioles slender. 



Fig. 297 



pale pubescent, '-j' in length. Fruit on glabrous or puberulous pedicels slightly longer 

 than the petioles, subglobose but rather longer than broad, dark orange-red, about j' long. 



An arborescent shrub or small tree rarely more than 25 high, with slender reddish 

 glabrous or gray-brown pubescent branchlets; often growing in clusters. Bark rough, 

 pale or grayish and not often covered with wart-like excrescences. 



Distribution. Rocky bluffs near Dallas to New Braunfels, Texas, and westward to 



