112 BOTANICAL GAZETTE | FEBRUARY. 
glandular with scattered dark glands, glabrous and red at maturity, 
¥% to ¥ in. long; stipules linear to semi-lunate, and stipitate, | 
coarsely glandular-serrate, % to 34 in. long. Flowers % in. i 
diameter in broad open many-flowered compound slightly villos 
corymbs; bracts and bractlets linear to oblong-obovate, coarsely = 
glandular-serrate; calyx-tube narrowly obconic, more or les 
villose, the lobes elongated, acuminate, irregularly glandulat- : 
serrate, with stipitate dark red glands, villose on the inner surface, : 
spreading after anthesis; stamens usually 10, occasionally 12 : 
tor5; anthers small, dark purple; styles 2 or 3. Fruit 
slender peduncles often % in. long, in broad drooping mat | 
fruited glabrous clusters, short-oblong to subglobose, full and i 
rounded at the ends, until nearly fully grown covered with log 
soft pale scattered hairs, at maturity dull orange-red, marked by 
numerous small dark lenticels, 7% to 1 in. long; calyx-cavl 
deep, comparatively narrow, the lobes linear-lanceolate, ne 
Allenton, Missouri, October, 1882, and Illinois 
ay, 1883, George W. Letterman. a 
many years in the Arnold Arboretum where it Ws 
by Mr. Letterman and where it now flowers 
