340 BOTANICAL GAZETTE [ NOVEMBER 
slightly scaly on the trunk of larger individuals: branches 
ascending, armed with stout, simple or branched, gray or chest- 
nut-brown spines 2-5°" long, forming a pyramidal or oval head; . 
branchlets at first pubescent, becoming smooth, the bark reddish- 
brown or gray, sprinkled with small, pale lenticels: buds globu- 
lar, bright reddish-brown, the terminal on strong shoots with 
thick, acute, slightly spreading scales: leaves, which are about 
half grown at flowering time, ovate, round-ovate, or occasionally 
obovate, 3-9™ long including the petiole, 2-6™ wide, or occ 
sionally larger on vigorous shoots, rounded or acute at the 
apex, abruptly contracted or wedge-shaped at the base and pro- 
longed into a margined, pubescent petiole 5""-2™ long, which, 
as well as the base of the blade, bears several sessile or stalked 
dark colored glands, the borders sharply and often doubly set 
rate, the serratures tipped with minute black glands, the Tr 
surface pubescent, becoming nearly smooth with age, bright 
green and lustrous, pale green on the lower surface, sa 
densely and permanently pubescent, especially along the midrib 
and principal veins, which are displayed in 5-7 pairs, aasentt 
olate, stra 
pectinately-glandular or glandular-serrate: 
expand in the vicinity of Montgomery, Alabama 
early in May, produced in simple or branched Ee ter: 
glandular-bracteate, pubescent corymbs, 1.5-2.5°% ine 
calyx obconic, pilose or pubescent, the divisions 
7-1o™™ long, 3-5™™" wide, smooth or nearly so tt 
face, pubescent on the inner, pectinately-glandular ms ee 
glandular-serrate, reflexed after anthesis: petals slightly bros 
than long, 10-14™" by g-12™™: stamens normally ste ier 
long, the anthers yellow: styles 3-5, surrounded at t sk 
with pale hairs: pedicels 1.5-3% long, pubescent pie 
bearing a linear or lanceolate, pectinately-glandulat fig 
fruit, which ripens and falls the last of September ve in diame” 
October, red, more or less pubescent, globose, pele: “roundel 
ter or occasionally slightly oval; cavity 4-68 - 
