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white hairs and pale blue-green and glabrous below, and at maturity 

 thick and firm to subcoriaceous, glabrous, smooth and dark yellow- 

 green on the upper surface, pale yellow-green on the lower surface, 

 6-8 cm long and 5-7 cm wide, with stout yellow midribs and 4 or 5 

 pairs of slender primary veins ; petioles stout, slightly wing-margined 

 at the apex, glandular, with minute persistent glands, often rose 

 color in the autumn, 2-3.5 <^^ i^ length. Flowers 1.5 cm in diame- 

 ter, on slender glabrous pedicels, in compact usually 5-7-flowered 

 corymbs ; calyx-tube broadly obconic, glabrous, the lobes short and 

 broad, acuminate, glabrous, coarsely glandular serrate above the 

 middle, reflexed after anthesis; stamens 10; anthers red; styles 



3 or 4, surrounded at the base by a broad ring of pale tomentum. 

 Fruit ripening early in October, on stout drooping dark red glabrous 

 pedicels, in few^-fruited clusters, short-oblong, full and rounded at 

 the ends, orange-red, slightly pruinose, marked by small pale dots, 

 1-1.2 cm long; calyx little enlarged, with a broad shallow cavity, 

 and spreading persistent glabrous lobes dark red on the upper side 

 below the middle; nutlets 3 or 4, acute at the ends, ridged on the 

 back, with a narrow ridge, dark colored, 7-8 mm long, and about 



4 mm wide. 



A shrub 5-6 m high, with numerous slender spreading stems cov- 

 ered with pale gray bark, small ascending branches, and slender 

 slightly zigzag glabrous branchlets, dark orange-green and marked 

 by small pale lenticels when they first appear, becoming bright 

 red-brown the following year, and armed with a few slender shining 

 spines 2.5-3 cm long. 



Bufifalo, J. Dunbar (;^i, type), October 6, 1902, May 26, 1906. 



Crataegus implicata n. sp. 



Leaves ovate to oval, acuminate and short-pointed at the apex, 

 rounded and cuneate at the entire base, finely often doubly serrate 

 above, with straight glandular teeth, and slightly divided into 4 or 5 

 pairs of small acuminate spreading lobes ; nearly fully grown when the 

 flowers open at the end of May and then yellow-green and slightly 

 roughened above by scattered white hairs, and at maturity mem- 

 branaceous, dark bluish green and smooth on the upper surface, 

 pale blue-green on the lower surface, 3.5-4.5 cm long and 3-4 

 cm wide, with thin midribs, and slender primary veins ; petioles very 

 slender, sparingly, glandular through the season, 1-2.5 ^"^ ^" length ; 

 stipules linear to linear-falcate, glandular-serrate, fading brown, 

 persistent ; leaves on vigorous shoots subcoriaceous, broadly ovate. 



