234 BOTANICAL GAZETTE [APRIL 
lower surface, from 2 to 2% in. long, from 14% to 1% in. wide, 
and on leading shoots often from 3 to 4 in. long and 3 in. wide; 
petioles slender, more or less winged above, tomentose, ulti- 
mately glabrous or puberulous, from ¥% to 34 in. long; stipules 
foliaceous, slightly falcate, acuminate, coarsely serrate, villose, 
long-stalked, from % to ¥% in. long, often % in. wide, or on 
vigorous shoots lunate and usually entire. Flowers about 34 in. 
in diameter in loose broad many-flowered compound thin- 
branched villose corymbs; calyx-tube narrowly obconic, villose 
with long matted white hairs, the lobes lanceolate, acuminate, 
obscurely glandular-serrate or nearly entire, villose on both sur- 
faces, reflexed after anthesis; stamens 20; filaments slender, 
elongated ; anthers small, dark red ; styles 5, surrounded at the 
base by a thin ring of hoary tomentum. Fruit in spreading or 
drooping few-fruited glabrous clusters, subglobose or often rather 
longer than broad, bright canary-yellow, marked by a few large 
dark lenticels about % in. long; calyx-tube elongated, with a 
broad deep cavity, the lobes deciduous before the maturity of 
the fruit; flesh thin, light-colored, dry and mealy; nutlets 5, 
rounded and ridged on the back, about ¥ in. long. 
Flowers from the middle to the end of March. Fruit ripens 
after the 1st of October. 
A tree 20 ft. in height with a trunk 6 in. in diameter and 8 ft. 
tall with ashy gray bark covered with small closely appressed 
scales, numerous upright branches forming a handsome symmet- 
trical round-topped head and slender slightly zigzag branchlets 
marked by small oblong pale lenticels, coated when they first 
appear with hoary tomentum, soon becoming glabrous and light 
reddish-brown, and ashy-gray during their second year, and 
apparently unarmed. 
Still known only from a single individual growing by the 
roadside in the bottoms of the Brazos river in the town of Bra- 
zoria, Texas, where it was found on March 25, 1900, by W. M. 
Canby, B. F. Bush, and C. S. Sargent, and subsequently visited 
by Mr. Bush in April and October, 1900. 

