﻿43^ BOTANICAL GAZETTE [june 



are about half grown; calyx cup-shaped, nearly glabrous, the large 

 triangular glabrate deeply glandular serrate lobes spreading after 

 anthesis ; stamens large, generally 5, sometimes 5 to 8 or 10; anthers 

 rose-purple; styles 4-5. Fruit in small 4-6 fruited somewhat com- 

 pound clusters, on spreading or nodding pedicels, dull scarlet with 

 orange spots at apex, globose, 14-17"''" thick, concave at base, some- 

 times capped by the large spreading or ascending generally entire 

 lobes, ripening early in September and falling soon after; flesh thick, 

 yellow, juicy; seeds generally 4, somewhat grooved on the rounded 

 back, the lateral faces plane. 



The type material was collected at Mansfield, O., by E, Wilkinson and 

 IV, IV, Ashe in 1901 and 1902, growing on sunny hillsides with oaks and 

 hickories. Crataegus habilis is separated from the other Flabellatae 

 having 5 to lo stamens by the subglobose fruit, small deeply lobed foliage, 

 and small short pediceled corymbs. 



Crataegus pentasperma, n. sp. — A tree 4-6 '" high with an oval crown 

 and long spreading or pendent branches. Trunk armed with numer- 

 ous thorns 4-6 "^^ long, its bark nearly black, broken by shallow furrows 

 or into small scales. . Twigs slender, geniculate, at first pubescent, at 

 length glabrate, armed with numerous thorns 3-5 '''" long. Leaves 

 firm, bright green and glabrous above, pubescent beneath when young, 

 at length nearly glabrous, except in the axils of the primary veins, the 

 blades 2.5-4 "^^ long, 1-2 ^^'^ wide, obovate or spatulate, obtusely glan- 

 dular serrate, rounded or acute at apex, often 3-5-notched above the 

 middle, cuneate at the entire base, 1-3 pairs of ascending primary 

 veins; petiole slender, i-a'^"' long, pubescent and roughened with 

 several pairs of dark glands (or the leaves on vigorous shoots nearly 

 orbicular and deeply lobed, with persistent foliaceous stipules). 

 Flowers small, in 5-10-flowered simple or somewhat compound villose 

 corymbs, appearing in the vicinity of Franklin, N. C, the last of May; 

 stamens small, 20 ; styles 5. Fruit in loose compound or simple 

 clusters, on pendent pubescent pedicels, pyriform, longer than thick, 

 ii-i^mm long, green or green mottled with orange and red, occasionally 

 capped by the stalked reflexed lanceolate villose glandular serrate 

 calyx lobes; flesh thin, very firm and white; cavity small ; seeds 5, 

 6 "■"* long, smooth or nearly so in the back and faces, attenuate at base. 

 The fruit ripens late in October and falls with the leaves or soon after. 



Crataegus pentaspervta is separated from the other GlanduloSAE with 

 20 stamens, pyriform fruit, and pubescent inflorescence, by the larger, often 

 compound cymes^and 5-seeded green fruit. The type material is from near 

 Franklin, Macon county, N. C— W. W. Ashe, Raleigh, N. C. 



