416 BOTANICAL GAZETTE [DECEMBER 
and by the short, strict, and stout pedicels. The type material 
is preserved in the Biltmore Herbarium. 
Crategus Mohri, n. sp —A tree 6-10” tall with a slender 
trunk 1~2 in diameter, unarmed, or sparsely furnished with 
long, simple or branched spines, and covered with thin, scaly, 
ashy-gray or reddish-brown bark; or in unfavorable situations a 
large, erect and branching shrub: branches ascending or nearly 
horizontal, spiny, forming an oblong or occasionally round com- 
pact head; the bark close and usually gray: branchlets and 
smaller branches zig-zag, armed with slightly curved or straight, 
chestnut-brown or gray spines 2-5™ long; the growth of the 
season at first pubescent, clothed with light brown or gray, lus- 
trous bark which is marked by small, pale lenticels: buds nearly 
round, or the lateral occasionally compressed, bright reddish- 
brown: leaves cuneate-obovate, or on vigorous shoots varying 
from oval to orbicular, 2~7™ long including the petiole, ak 
wide, or larger on the shoots, acute or rounded at the apex and 
contracted below into winged or margined petioles in 
long, sharply and irregularly serrate to or below the middle, 
entire or nearly so at the base, and sometimes, especially on 
vigorous shoots, doubly serrate or incisely lobed ; they are more 
or less pubescent along the veins when young, dark green and 
lustrous above, pale below, becoming thick and coriaceous with 
age: stipules linear, glandular, 5-10" long, caducous: flowers, 
which appear when the leaves are of full size, disposed in slen- 
der, elongated and often flexuous, many-flowered, bracteate 
corymbs, which are more or less pubescent or pilose at flowering 
time, and open in the vicinity of Rome, Georgia (type locality ) 
about the first of May; they are 1.5-1.75™ in diameter an 
borne on more or less pilose, slender, often flexuous pedicels 
8™—2.5™ long, which bear one or two minute, subulate, cadu- 
cous bractlets: calyx narrow, obconic, glabrous or occasionally 
a little pilose; the segments linear-lanceolate, 2-5"" long, entire 
or slightly glandular serrate,. reflexed after anthesis; corolla 
white, the divisions round-ovate or nearly orbicular, 6-8"™ long, 
5-7"" wide with undulate or erose borders: stamens normally 
