426 BOTANICAL GAZETTE [NOVEMBER 
Usually a small tree with pale furrowed or sometimes checkered bark, small 
spreading branches forming a narrow round-topped head, and slender glabrous 
orange or red-brown branchlets. Winter buds ovate, obtusely pointed, dull 
red, glabrous, 4-5 mm. long. Flowers usually in the first week of on before 
the other species with which it is associated. Fruit ripens in September. 
Mississrpr1.—Rich woods and river bluffs near Natchez, Sane County, 
Miss C. C. Compton, June 2 and September 24, 1915 (no. 12 type), May and 
September 1915 (no. 13); Clifton Upper Bluff, Miss Compton, May 18, June 2, 
and September 24, 1915 (no. 2); Kingston Road, near Natchez, Miss Compton, 
August 26, 1915; Fenwick, Adams County, Miss: Compton, April 17, 19015; 
bluff of the Mississippi River above Natchez, C. S. Sargent, April 8, 1013, 
April 17, 1915, and April 17, 1916; Woodville, Wilkinson County, C. 5S. 
Sargent, April 15, 1916; near Jackson, Hinds County, T. G. Harbison, May 17, 
1915 (no. 63), September 19, 1915 (no. 63A), May 22, 1915, September 18, 
IQI5 — 84, 88A); Bolton, Hinds County, T. G. Harbison, May 24, 1915. 
ALABAMA.—Hatcher’s Creek, Berlin, Dallas County, R. S. Cocks, June 6, 
July 28, 1016 (no. 950). 
A.—St. Possciilie West Feliciana Parish, C..S. Sargent, April 12, 
1916; ata Give: Calcasieu Parish, R. S. Cocks, May 21, July 7, 1915 
(no. 2530), May 21, 1915, C. S. Sargent, April 12 and 13, 1915, E. J. Palmer, 
May 16, September 11, 1915 (nos. 7644, 8523). 
TExas.—White Oak Bayou, Houston, Harris County, F. Lindheimer, 
March 1840 (no. 10779 in Herb. Missouri Bot. Gard.), E. J. Palmer, May 17, 
September 15, 1917 (nos. 11397, 12763); Livingston, Polk County, E. J. 
Palmer, October 7, 1914 (nos. 6753, 6755), September 12, 1916 (no. 10696), 
April 4, September 17 and 19, 1917 (nos. 11467, 12016, 12796, 12797, 12798, 
12803); Marshall, Harrison County, E. J. Palmer, October 17, 1914 (no. 68 52), 
April 18, 1915 (no. 7277), June 8, 1915 (no. 7912); Larissa, Cherokee County, 
B. F. Bush, October 7, 1909 (no. 5977), E. J. Palmer, June 3, September 22, 
1915 (nos. 7846, 8622); Liberty, Liberty County, E. J. Palmer, May 22, 1915 
(no. 7736); San Augustine, San Augustine County, E. J. Palmer, September 7, 
1916 (no. 10627); College Station, Brazos County, E. J. Palmer, April 28, 1917 
woe 11722); Huntsville, Walker County, E. J. Palmer, May 26, 1917 (no. 
12046). 
ARKANSAS.—Fulton, Hempstead County, B. F. Bush, April 5, 1909 
(no. 54644); McNab, Hempstead County, E. J. Palmer, June 18, 1915 
(no. 8056), September 8, 1917 (no. 12674 
On this tree as it grows in the neighborhood of Natchez, where it is common, 
the bracts of the peduncles vary from 1 cm. up to 3 cm. in width. In Miss 
Compton’s no. 12 the bracts are sometimes almost sessile or are borne on stalks 
of varying length up to3cm. At Larissa, Texas, trees growing on sandy moist 
hillsides are often 25-30 m. high, with trunks 75 cm. in diameter covered with 
deeply fissured bark. The absence of pubescence from the young leaves and 
the absence of axillary hairs well distinguish this species, but the absence of 
