232 BOTANICAL GAZETTE [APRIL 
particularly on leading shoots, into two or three pairs of broad 
acute lobes; when they first unfold membranaceous, dark red, 
soon becoming green and lustrous, almost fully grown when the 
flowers open, and at maturity thick and coriaceous, dark green 
and very lustrous on the upper surface, pale and dull on the 
lower surface, from 2 to 3 in. long, from I to. 1% in. wide, and 
‘on vigorous shoots often from 4 to 5 in. long and from 2 to 2% 
in. wide, with prominent midribs usually red on the lower side 
and few slender prominent primary veins slightly impressed 
above and usually running to the points of the lobes; petioles 
stout, grooved, more or less winged above by the decurrent 
bases of the bladés, glandular particularly on vigorous shoots, 
from % to 3% in. long; stipules on vigorous shoots lunate, stipi- 
tate, coarsely glandular-serrate, occasionally % in. in length. 
Flowers 34 in. in diameter on slender elongated pedicels in 
broad compound very thin-branched many-flowered corymbs ; 
calyx-tube narrowly obconic, the lobes narrow, acuminate, 
elongated, entire or sparingly and irregularly glandular-serrate, 
reflexed after anthesis; stamens 15 to 20; filaments slender; 
anthers small, pale yellow; styles 2 to 5. Fruit in many-fruited 
drooping clusters, oblong, dull brick red, pruinose with a slight 
glaucous bloom, marked by small dark lenticels, from % to % 
in. long, % in. thick; calyx-cavity deep and narrow, the lobes 
little enlarged, dark red near the base on the upper side, usually 
erect, often deciduous before the maturity of the fruit; flesh 
yellow, thick, dry, sweet, and mealy; nutlets 2 to 5, rounded 
and ridged on the back with a low broad rounded ridge, light- 
colored, about ¥ in. long. 
A tree often 30 ft. in height with a tall trunk from 12.to 18 
in. in diameter covered with close dark bark broken into thick 
plate-like scales, spreading lower and erect upper branches 
forming a broad open rather irregular head, and slender nearly 
straight branchlets, bright orange-brown and lustrous during 
their first and second seasons, becoming pale reddish-brown 
during their third year, and ultimately ashy-gray, and unarmed 
or armed with few straight slender bright chestnut-brown lus- 
trous spines from I to 1% in. in length. 


