4 BOTANICAL GAZETTE [JANUARY 
apex, cuneate and entire at the base, coarsely and doubly ser- 
rate above the middle with glandular incurved teeth, often more 
or less deeply lobed on vigorous leading shoots with broad acute 
lobes, coriaceous, dark green and lustrous above, pale and dull 
below, 2 to 2% in. long and 1 to 1% in. wide, or on leading 
shoots often 3 to 4 in. long and 2 in. broad, the thick midribs 
and four or five pairs of remote primary veins raised and con- 
spicuous on the lower surface and impressed on the upper sur- 
face; petioles stout, grooved and glandular on the upper side 
with scattered dark red persistent glands, more or less winged 
above by the decurrent base of the leaf-blades, red below the 
middle, % to % in. long; stipules oblong-obovate to linear-lan- 
ceolate, glandular-serrate, 1% in. long. Flowers 5 in. in diameter, 
in loose many-flowered long-branched compound cymes; calyx- 
lobes narrow, acuminate, serrate with slender teeth tipped with 
small red glands, nearly entire, reflexed and closely appressed 
on the fruit, often deciduous before maturity; stamens ten or 
rarely twelve or thirteen; filaments slender, elongated; anthers 
small, rose-color; styles threeto five. Fruits oblong to subglo- 
bose, full and rounded at the ends, depressed at the insertion of 
the stalks, flesh red, thick, juicy, and succulent, % to 5 in. long, 
drooping on the slender elongated peduncles, lustrous dark 
crimson, punctate with occasional large pale dots; calyx cavity 
deep and narrow; nutlets three to five, 4 in. long, light chestnut- 
brown, prominently ridged on the back with broad rounded ridges. 
A bushy much-branched tree 20 to 25 feet in height with a 
short stout trunk often a foot in diameter covered with dark 
brown scaly bark; branches stout, erect, wide-spreading, at 
first dark green and marked with numerous pale raised lenticels, 
slightly zigzag, soon becoming light orange-brown and lustrous, 
gray during their second year, and armed with few stout chest- 
nut brown spines varying from 34 to 1% in. in length. Flowers 
the middle of May; the fruit ripens early in October and falls 
in early winter. 
Hedges and thickets near Wilmington, Delaware; Pennsyl- 
vania, meadows of Tohickon Creek, Quakertown, C. D. Frets, 
