470 TREES OF NORTH AMERICA 



coarsely and occasionally doubly serrate above, with straight or incurved teeth tipped 

 with small dark glands, when they unfold roughened on the upper surface with short 

 pale hairs and pubescent below, nearly fuljy grown and membranaceous when the 



flowers open early in May, and at maturity thin but firm in texture, dark green, lus- 

 trous and scabrate on the upper surface, pale and puberulous on the lower surface 

 along the slender midribs and primary veins, about 2' long and !' wide; their 

 petioles stout, broadly winged above, glandular, pubescent at first but ultimately nearly 

 glabrous, about \' long; on vigorous shoots usually broadly oval or nearly orbicular, 

 rounded or short-pointed at the apex, 2'-3' long and 2'-2|' wide. Flowers f ' in 

 diameter, on slender hairy pedicels, in 3-10-flowered simple or compound villose 

 corymbs, with broad conspicuous glandular bracts and bractlets; calyx-tube broadly 

 obconic, thickly coated with long matted reflexed white hairs, the lobes foliaceous, 

 broad, acute, nearly glabrous on the outer surface, villose on the inner surface, glandu- 

 lar, with small stout stipitate glands; stamens 20; anthers small, yellow; styles 3-5, 

 surrounded at the 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, globose or rather longer than broad, bright red, marked by large 

 scattered dots, more or less villose toward the ends, about 1' in diameter; calyx con- 

 spicuous, with elongated coarsely glandular-serrate lobes, erect, incurved or reflexed; 

 flesh thick and yellow; nutlets 3-5, thin, narrowed and acute at the ends, deeply 

 grooved and ridged on the back, \' 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 ascend- 

 ing branches forming a pyramidal or oval head, and slender branchlets coated at first 

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

 brown or reddish brown, 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^' long. 



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

 Montgomery, Alabama. 



