~ lobes spreading or ascending after anthesis; stamens 20, 
: we smoother. Twigs brown, stout, gla 
a brittle, somewhat geniculate, armed with 
232 BOTANICAL GAZETTE [MARCH 
Crataegus cibilis, n. sp—A tree 4-6" in height, with a short 
unarmed trunk having dark gray nearly black scaly bark, and numer 
ous long spreading branches forming a globose crown. Twigs soon = 
glabrous, thick, soft, russet or red-brown, straight or nearly so, armed — 
with very few short thorns 2—3™ long. Leaves thin, on the upper surface 
bright green and glabrous except on the midrib, on the lower somewhat 
paler and sparingly pubescent, especially on the veins; the blades 
ovate deltoid or nearly orbicular, 7-9 long, 5-8” wide, rounded or 
truncate at the usually entire base, subacute or obtuse at the ape, 
sharply doubly serrate and with 2-4 pairs of short notches above the 
middle; petiole slender, one-half the length of the blade, villous. 
Inflorescence a nearly simple 4—8-flowered cyme; pedicels slender, 
erect, villous, the lower elongated. The flowers, which appear a Hot 
springs, North Carolina, early in May or the last of April, when - 
leaves are about half grown, are 20-24" wide; calyx large, cup-shaped, 
glabrous, the elongated ligulate or narrowly triangular sharply serrate 
anthers nearly 
_ white. The fruit, borne in nearly simple clusters, on long spreading _ 
or drooping nearly glabrous pedicels, and falling with the pele. 
attached before or with the leaves in October, is depressed ¢! oe L 
_ 12-15™" thick and not quite so long, concave at the base, full wie 
rounded at the apex, dark red, capped by the large ascending a 
lobes; the cavity broad and deep; flesh thick, firm, y ellow, ek 
usually 5.7—-8™ long, lateral faces nearly plane, grooved ies - ee 
_ The species above proposed is related to Cvataeg: 
below, from which it is separated by the differently shaped 
__ larger glabrous ascending calyx lobes. It occurs on the banks ae 
Broad river in Madison county, North Carolina, and Indian ¢ ee 
county, Tennessee. 
