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leaves; calyx-tube narrowly obconic, gradually narrowed from the 

 base, the lobes long, slender, acuminate, deep rose color above the 

 middle, glandular serrate, reflexed after anthesis; stamens 5-9; 

 anthers light rose color; styles 2 or 3. Fruit ripening the 

 middle of September, on slender drooping pedicels, in few-fruited 

 clusters, short-oblong, truncate at the apex, rounded and depressed 

 at the base, scarlet, lustrous, marked by pale dots, 9-10 mm long 

 and 8-9 mm in diameter; calyx little enlarged, with a deep narrow 

 cavity tomentose in the bottom, and small spreading or incurved 

 persistent lobes; flesh thin, light orange color; nutlets 2 or 3, grad- 

 ually narrowed and rounded at the ends, ridged on the back, with 

 a low broad grooved ridge, about 5 mm long and 4 mm wide. 



A narrow shrub sometimes 4 m high, with fastigiately erect stems 

 covered with dark green bark scaly near the ground, erect branches 

 and stout nearly straight branchlets dark green when they first ap- 

 pear, becoming light chestnut-brown, lustrous -and marked by large 

 pale lenticels in their first season and dull reddish brown the follow- 

 ing year, and armed with stout straight or slightly curved light 

 chestnut-brown ultimately gray spines 2.5-3.5 ^^^ lo^S- 



Rich hillsides. Coopers Plains, G. D. Cornell ( ;^85, type), Sep- 

 tember 16, 1906, June 3, 1907, ( ;^8i), June and September 1907. 



Crataegus spatifolia n. sp. 



Glabrous with the exception of the hairs on the upper surface of 

 the young leaves. Leaves oblong-ovate, long-pointed and acuminate 

 at the apex, rounded, subcordate or abruptly cuneate at the broad 

 base, finely often doubly serrate, with straight glandular teeth, and 

 divided into 5-7 pairs of broad acuminate spreading or refiexe.l 

 lateral lobes; more than half grown when the flowers open about 

 the 1st of June and then thin, yellow-green, slightly hairy and 

 rough above, and at maturity thin, dark yellow-green, smooth an 

 lustrous on the upper surface, pale bluish green on tlie lower sur- 

 face, 6-^ cm long and 5-6 cm wide, with slender midribs, and thin 

 primary veins arching obliquely to the points of the lobes ; petioles 

 slender, slightly wing-margined at the apex, occasionally glandular, 

 3-3.5 cm in length ; leaves on vigorous shoots subcoriaceous, cordate 

 or truncate at the base, more coarsely serrate and more deeply lobecl, 

 and often 6-7 cm long and wide. Flowers 1.4-1.9 cm in diameter, 

 on 'long slender pedicels, in wide lax mostly 8-i6-flowered corymbs, 

 the elongated lower peduncles from the axils of upper leaves; calyx- 

 tube narrowly obconic, the lobes gradually narrowed from the base, 



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