NEW OR LITTLE KNOWN NORTH AMERICAN 
Teens. iV. 
CHARLES S. SARGENT, 
Prunus (PRuNopHORA) tarda, n. sp.— Leaves convolute 
vernation, oblong to obovate, acute, or acuminate and S 
pointed at the apex, gradually narrowed and rounded or cuntal 
at the base, finely serrate, with straight or incurved teeth ti : 
with minute dark glands, cinereo-tomentose as they unfol 
maturity thick and firm in texture, dull yellow-green an 
_ fous on the upper surface, pale and pubescent or P D 
_on the lower surface along the prominent yellow midribs a 
primary veins, 14-3 in. long, 34-14% in. wide; petioles 
_ tomentose, ¥% to ¥% in. long, biglandular at the ape% 
prominent dark stalked, often deciduous, glands, of °" 
= ‘stipules - acicular, \& in. long, caducous. Flowers 10 
oS flowered subsessile umbels; pedicels slender, glabrous, 
in. long; calyx-tube narrowly obconic, glabrous om 
_ base, villose_ above, the lobes acute, entire, villose o! the: 
ae - surface, coated within with thick, hoary 7 
i Sena ea narrowed below, shor 
: : Fruit — tos : 
s; 22201 to 25 feet in height with a trunk 18 or 20 = 
a reading branches, slender, lustrous, light red-brown 
a occasional dark lenticels, and minute, acuminate 
ised of the trunk is light brown tinged with 
cae . by shallow, interrupted fissures into flat ridges 
into small, loose, plate-like scales, and hardly disting\ 
c astanca pumila cies with it. - 
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