﻿38o BOTANICAL GAZETTE [june 



LOBULATAE. 



Anthers pink or rose color. 



Stamens ^-lo. 



Crataegus elongata, n, sp. — Leaves oblong-ovate, acuminate^ 

 rounded or concave-cuneate at the broad often unsymmetrical 

 entire glandular base, finely doubly serrate above, with straight 

 or incurved teeth tipped with small red glands, and very slightly 

 divided into three or four pairs of acuminate lateral lobes ; 

 thickly coated above as they unfold with shining white hairs and 

 villose below; more than half grown when the flowers open and 

 then membranaceous, light yellow-green and still villose ; at 

 maturity thin but firm in texture, dark yellow-green, smooth and 

 glabrous on the upper surface, pale yellow-green on the lower 

 surface, 6-7'^"' long* 4-5-5-5 *"" wide, with stout midribs deeply 

 impressed above and occasionally furnished with a few scattered 

 hairs along their rose -colored base, and 5 or 6 pairs of slender 

 primary veins extending to the points of the lobes; petioles very 

 slender, wing-margined at the apex, slightly grooved, villose 

 and sparingly glandular early in the season, 2.5-3*^°^ in length. 

 Flowers on slender pedicels, thickly ceated like the narrowly 

 obconic tube of the calyx with long pale hairs, in very long thin- 

 branched few-flowered villose corymbs ; calyx lobes narrow^ 

 acuminate, glandular-serrate, glabrous on the outer, villose on 

 the inner face, reflexed after anthesis; stamens five; anthers pale 

 pink; styles 3 or 4. Fruit on elongated pubescent pedicels, in 

 gracefully drooping few-fruited clusters, oblong-obovate, crimson,, 

 lustrous, marked by numerous small pale dots, about 1.5 ""^ long 

 and 8 """" wide; calyx persistent, with a broad deep cavity and 

 spreading and reflexed much enlarged lobes, their tips usually 

 deciduous from the ripe fruit ; flesh thick, dry and mealy; nutlets 

 three or four, thin, gradually narrowed and acute at the apex, 

 full and rounded at the base, ridged on the back, usually with a 

 broad grooved ridge, g-io"'"' long. 



A small tree with slender straight branchlets, dark orange-green marked 

 by oblong pale lenticels and villose when they first appear, bright red-brown^ 

 glabrous or puberulous at the end of their first season, and dull dark gray- 

 brown the following year, and unarmed or armed with stout, slightly curved 



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