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Crataegus finitima n. sp. 



Leaves rhombic to oblong-ovate, acuminate and long-pointed 

 at the apex, gradually narrowed and concave-cuneate at the acumi- 

 nate entire base, sharply doubly serrate above, with straight glan- 

 dular teeth, and divided above the middle into 4 or 5 pairs of small 

 acuminate lobes ; nearly fully grown when the flowers open about 

 the 20th of May and then membranaceous, bright yellow-green, 

 scabrous and sparingly villose along the midribs above and pale and 

 slightly villose below, and at maturity thin but firm in texture, light 

 green, smooth, lustrous and glabrous on the upper surface, and pale 

 blue-green and villose-pubescent on the lower surface especially on 

 the slender yellow midribs and thin pale primary veins extending 

 very obliquely to the points of the lobes, 7.5-9 cm long and 4.5-5 

 cm wide ; petioles slender, broadly wing-margined at the apex, 

 villose on the upper side while young, soon glabrous, occasionally 

 glandular early in the season, with minute glands, often rose color 

 in the autumn, 2-3 cm in length ; stipules linear, only slightly glandu- 

 lar, fading rose color, caducous ; leaves on vigorous shoots some- 

 times obovate and rounded at the apex, more coarsely serrate and 

 8-9 cm long and (y-y cm wide. Flowers 1.6 cm in diameter, on 

 slender pedicels thickly covered with matted pale hairs, in wide 

 villose 20-30-flowered corymbs, the lower peduncles from the axils 

 of upper leaves, their bracts and bractlets linear, glandular, 

 fading brown, caducous ; calyx-tube narrowly obconic, covered with 

 long white hairs, the lobes long, slender, acuminate, minutely glandu- 

 lar serrate below the middle, slightly villose on both surfaces, re- 

 flexed after anthesis; stamens 20; anthers pink; styles 2 or 3, sur- 

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

 ripening about the first of October, on short erect reddish pedicels 

 in many-fruited clusters, short-oblong to subglobose, full and 

 rounded at the ends, orange-red, lustrous, marked by large pale 

 dots, about i cm in diameter ; calyx prominent, with a narrow 

 shallow cavity, and elongated spreading narrow coarsely serrate lobes 

 red toward the base and puberulous on the upper surface; flesh 

 thick, yellow, sweet and succulent ; nutlets 2 or 3, broad, rounded at 

 the ends, ridged on the back, with a low narrow ridge, penetrated 

 on the inner face by broad deep cavities, about 6 mm long, and 4 

 mm wide 



A tree or arborescent shrub G-y m high, sometimes with a trunk 

 2-2.5 ^'""^ ^^"^ diameter and 2 m long covered with dark bark divided 

 into narrow ridges, large spreading branches, and stout slightly 



