228 BOTANICAL GAZETTE [APRIL 
dentate, except at the very base, with straight glandular teeth; 
when the flowers open not more than one third grown, bronze 
color, covered above with short soft pale hairs, glabrous below, 
and at maturity membranaceous, smooth dull dark green and 
glabrous on the upper surface, pale yellow-green on the lower 
surface, from 1% to 2 in. long and broad, with slender yellow 
midribs slightly impressed above and thin primary veins run- 
ning obliquely to the points of the lobes; petioles very slender, 
often short-winged above, nearly terete below, glandular, from 
I to 1% in. in length; stipules lanceolate to oblanceolate, finely 
glandular-serrate, from 4 to % in. in length, caducous. Flowers 
34 in. in diameter on slender pedicels in narrow compact few- 
flowered thin -branched slightly villose corymbs ; bracts and bract- 
lets linear-lanceolate, glandular, caducous; calyx-tube broadly 
obconic, glabrous, the lobes narrow, acuminate, conspicuously 
glandular-serrate, villose on the -upper surface, reflexed after 
anthesis; stamens 20; filaments slender; anthers small, dark 
purple; styles 4 or 5. Fruit in erect few-fruited slightly vil- 
lose clusters, pear-shaped until nearly fully grown, but at matu- 
rity oblong or somewhat obovate, full and rounded at the ends, 
crimson, lustrous, marked by small pale lenticels, from y% to 5% 
in. long; calyx-cavity deep but narrow, the lobes elongated, 
glandular-serrate, villose above, spreading and closely appressed, 
often deciduous before the maturity of the fruit; flesh thick, 
yellow, dry, and mealy; nutlets 4 or 5, thin, rounded, and 
obscurely or not all ridged on the back from ¥% to 5% in. in length. 
A tree from 20 to 25 ft. in height, with a tall trunk from 6 
to 8 in. in diameter covered with close dark red-brown bark, 
slender erect branches forming a narrow head and thin slightly 
zigzag branchlets marked by numerous oblong pale lenticels, 
dark green and slightly villose when they first appear, dull 
orange-brown in their first season, ultimately dark gray-brown, 
and armed with occasional straight or slightly curved bright red- 
brown spines from 1 to 1% in. in length. 
Flowers during the first week of May. Fruit ripens about 
the middle of September and soon falls. 
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