412 BOTANICAL GAZETTE [DECEMBER 
or deep red, pubescent, the cavity 5—6™ broad, 3~57": deep: 
nutlets 3-5, hard and bony, 7-9™ long, about 5"™" measured 
dorso-ventrally, a volume of 125° containing about 1633 clean 
and dry seeds. 
The type material is preserved in the Chapman Herbarium 
at Biltmore. 
Crategus austromontana, n. sp.—A straggling shrub, 1-4” in 
height, frequenting rocky woods and banks: main stems 1-3, aris- 
ing from large coarse roots or horizontal rootstocks, or frequently 
a group or clump more or less united, occupying a surface of 
5-10 square meters: bark close, or slightly broken into numer- 
ous small plates, gray, or with a decided tinge of brown: 
branches unarmed, or an occasional spine on a young plant or 
vigorous shoot, the bark smooth, gray or nearly brown: branch- 
lets pilose-pubescent or tomentose, covered with dark chestnut 
or reddish-brown bark which is marked by round or elongated, 
pale lenticels, buds globular, bright reddish-brown: flowers 
large, borne in simple 2~5- (usually 3-) flowered cymes, opening 
in the vicinity of Valley Head, Ala. (type locality), the first 
part of May: pedicels stout, pilose or tomentose, I-2.5™ long, 
bearing a linear, glandular, deciduous bract near the summit: 
calyx. broad, . obconic, pubescent, the divisions lanceolate, 
6-10" long, 1-3™ wide, pectinately-glandular or glandular- 
serrate, pubescent: stamens 10, 4—7™ long: pistils 3-5, sur 
rounded at the base with pale hairs : fruit, which ripens and falls 
during the latter part of September, large, globose, 12-15™ 11 
diameter, bright red, pubescent, and frequently punctate, con 
taining 3-5 hard, bony nutlets which are 8—10"™ long, so 
wide, measured from the back to the inner edge, bluntly angled 
on the back and with lateral faces narrow and nearly plane: 
cavity broad, 4-6" wide, surrounded by the persistent calyx 
lobes and remnants of the filaments: leaves orbicular, broadly 
oval or round-ovate, 3.5-12™ long, including the pubescent oF 
tomentose petiole, which, like the extreme base of the leaf, bears 
a number of stalked, black-tipped glands, 2.5-7.5™ wide, oF 
sometimes larger on strong shoots; they are harshly, though 
