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leaves at the end of vigorous shoots usually broadly oval or nearly orbicular, rounded or 

 short-pointed at apex, 2'-3' long, and 2'-2' wide. Flowers f ' in diameter, on slender 

 hairy pedicels, in 3-10-flowered simple or compound corymbs, with broad conspicuous 

 glandular bracts and bractlets; calyx-tube broadly obconic, thickly coated w r ith long matted 

 reflexed white hairs, the lobes broad, acute, nearly glabrous on the outer surface, villose on 

 the inner surface, glandular with small stout stipitate glands; stamens 20; anthers small, 

 yellow; styles 3-5, surrounded at base by a narrow ring of pale hairs. Fruit ripening and 

 falling late in September or early in October, on stout villose or glabrous pedicels, in few- 

 fruited clusters, subglobose or rather longer than broad, bright red, marked by large scat- 

 tered dots, more or less villose toward the ends, about 1' in diameter; calyx conspicuous, 

 with elongated coarsely glandular-serrate, erect incurved or reflexed lobes; flesh thick and 

 yellow; nutlets 3-5, thin, acute at the ends, ' long. 



A tree, rarely more than 20 high, with a slender trunk covered with smooth light gray 

 or red-brown bark becoming fissured and scaly on old individuals, stout ascending branches 



Fig. 471 



forming a pyramidal or oval head, and slender branchlets coated when they first appear 

 with long pale matted reflexed hairs, soon becoming nearly glabrous, lustrous, orange- 

 brown or reddish I rown, and light gray or gray tinged with red during their second season, 

 and armed with straight or slightly curved thin dark red-brown shining spines I'-l-g' long. 

 Distribution. Abandoned fields, and woods, growing usually on clay soils; near Mont- 

 gomery, Montgomery County, and Gallion, Hale County, Alabama. 



XV. FLAVJE. 

 CONSPECTUS OF THE ARBORESCENT SPECIES. 



Stamens 20. 



Anthers pink or purple. 



Corymbs usually 3-6-flowered. 



Leaves elliptic to broad-ovate, yellow-green; fruit dark orange-brown. 



120. C. flava (C). 



Leaves ovate to obovate or orbicular, bright yellow-green; fruit obovoid, dark 

 orange color with a red cheek. 121. C. visenda (C). 



Leaves obovate or ovate, dark green; fruit subglobose to short-oblong, red or orange- 

 red. 122. C. ignava (C). 



