REPORT OF THE STATE BOTANIST I907 6 1 



Crataegus bella n. sp. 



Leaves ovate, acuminate, rounded or abruptly cuneate at the 

 broad entire base, finely doubly serrate above, with straight slender 

 glandular teeth, and divided into 4 or 5 pairs of narrow acuminate 

 spreading lateral lobes ; dark red and covered on the upper surface 

 with short white hairs when they first appear, nearly fully grown 

 when the flowers open at the end of May and then membranaceous, 

 light 3^ellow-green and scabrate above and pale below, and at 

 maturity thin but firm in texture, dark bluish green and very smooth 

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

 3.5-4.5 cm long and 3-3.5 cm wide, with slender midribs and thin 

 primary veins ; petioles slender, slightly wing-margined at the apex, 

 glandular, with large dark glands occasionally persistent during the 

 season, often rose color in the autumn, 1.5-2 cm in length; leaves 

 on vigorous shoots rounded or slightly cordate at the base, and 

 usually as broad as long, with stout broad-winged rose colored 

 petioles. Flowers 1.6 cm in diameter, on slender glabrous pedicels, 

 in crowded many-flowered corymbs, with linear bracts and bractlets 

 fading brown ; calyx-tube narrowly obconic, glabrous, the lobes 

 slender, elongated, entire or sparingly dentate, glabrous, reflexed 

 after anthesis,; stamens, 10; anthers rose color; styles 3 or 4, sur- 

 rounded at the base by a narrow ring of pale hairs. Fruit very 

 showy, in wide many-fruited erect or spreading clusters, full and 

 rounded at the ends or slightly narrowed from below the middle 

 to the base, scarlet, lustrous, marked by'many small pale dots, about 

 I cm long and 8-9 mm wide ; calyx prominent, with a broad deep 

 cavity, and spreading or slightly incurved persistent lobes red on the 

 upper side toward the base; flesh thick, yellow, sweet and juicy; 

 nutlets 3 or 4, narrowed and acute at the ends, ridged on the back, 

 with a broad doubly grooved ridge 7-8 mm long, and 4-5 mm wide. 



A shrub 3-4 m high, with stout ascending tortuous stems, small 

 spreading branches, and slender zigzag branchlcts dark purple and 

 puberulous when they first appear, soon glabrous, becoming bright 

 chestnut-brown and lustrous in their first season and dull gray- 

 brown the following year, and armed with stout straight or slightly 

 curved 1)right chestnut-brown shining ultimately dull gray-brown 

 spines 2.5-3.5 ^^""^ ^^^^S- 



lUififalo, J. Dunbar ("^'24, type). September 24. 1904, May 2S, 



1905- 



