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and acuminate at 'the apex, gradually narrowed and concave-cuneate 

 at the entire base, finely doubly serrate above, with straight glandu- 

 lar teeth, and slightly and irregularly divided usually only above the 

 middle into 3 or 4 pairs of small acute lobes ; slightly tinged with 

 red when they unfold, nearly fully grown when the flowers open 

 the first week of June and then very thin, dark yellow-green and 

 slightly hairy above especially along the midribs, and glabrous and 

 glaucous below, and at maturity thin, dark bluish green, smooth 

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

 surface, 5-7 cm long and 3-4.5 cm wide, with thin yellow midribs 

 and primary veins ; petioles very slender, slightly wing-margined at 

 the apex, sparingly glandular, W'ith mostly deciduous glands, often 

 tinged with red in the autumn, 1.8-2.5 cm in length; leaves on 

 vigorous shoots thicker, occasionally rounded at the base, more 

 coarsely serrated, more deeply lobed, and often 7-8 cm long and 5.5- 

 6.5 cm wide, with foliaceous lunate often persistent stipules. 

 Flowers 1.2-1.3 cm in diameter, on long slender pedicels, in very 

 narrow compact 4-8-flowered corymbs, the much elongated lower 

 peduncles from the axils of upper leaves; calyx-tube narrowly ob- 

 conic, the lobes long, slender, acuminate and rose colored at the apex, 

 entire or furnished near the base with i or 2 glands, glabrous on 

 the outer, slightly villose on the inner surface, reflexed after 

 anthesis ; stamens 5-8 ; anthers red or purple ; styles 3 or 4. Fruit 

 ripening late in September, on slender drooping pedicels, in 

 loose clusters, short-oblong to somewhat obovate, slightly narrowed 

 at the ends, crimson, lustrous, 1.1-1.2 mm long, and 7-8 mm in 

 diameter; calyx little enlarged, with a deep narrow cavity, and re- 

 flexed and appressed lobes dark red on the upper side below the 

 middle and often deciduous from the ripe fruit; flesh thin, greenish 

 yellow ; nutlets 3 or 4, usually 3, gradually narrowed and rounded 

 at the ends, or when 3 broader at the apex than at the base, marked 

 on the inner face by shallow irregular depressions, 6.5-7 ^^ ^ong, 

 and about 4 mm wide. 



A shrub 2-3 m high, wath gray stems, 2.5-5 cm in diameter near 

 the ground, ascending branches, and slender slightly zigzag branch- 

 lets dark orange-green and marked by pale Icnticels when they first 

 appear, becoming bright chestnut-brown and lustrous in their first 

 season snd dull reddish brown the following year, and armed with 

 stout slightly curved chestnut-brown shining spines 2.5-3 cm long. 



Piseco, Hamilton co., C. H. Peck (#62, type), June 10 and Sep- 

 tember ]6, 1904. 



