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LeaTes blue-green 



Leaves glabrous at maturity 

 Fruit short-oblong 



Leaves oblong-ovate, deeply lobed, usually only above the mid- 

 dle; fruit often 1.4 cm in length 6 C. ornata 



Leaves broadly ovate, laterally lobed; fruit generally not more 



than I cm long 7 C. bella 



Leaves oval, only slightly lobed 8 C. genial is 



Fruit obovate 9 C. . tenuiloba 



Leaves scabrate at maturity 10 C. streeterae 



Stamens 20 

 Leaves broadly ovate ; flowers in compact corymbs ; fruit short-oblong, in 



erect clusters , 11 C. conferta 



Leaves oblong-ovate; flowers in wide long-branched corymbs; fruit obovate, 

 in drooping clusters 12 C . 1 u m i n o s a 



Crataegus slavini n. sp. 



Leaves oblong-ovate, acuminate, broad and rounded or gradually 

 narrowed and cuneate at the base, finely doubly serrate, w^ith straight 

 glandular teeth, and divided into 5-8 pairs of widespreading often 

 incurved acuminate lateral lobes ; nearly half grown when the flow- 

 ers open about the 25th of May and then thin, yellow-green and 

 roughened above by short white hairs and pale and glabrous below, 

 and at maturity thin but firm in texture, bright yellow -green, smooth 

 and lustrous on the upper surface and pale and glaucous on the 

 lower surface, 4.5-7 cm long and 4-5.5 cm wide, with stout midribs 

 and slender primary veins arching obliquely to the points of the 

 lobes ; petioles slender, slightly wing-margined at the apex, glandu- 

 lar, with minute persistent glands, 2-3 cm in length ; leaves on vig- 

 orous shoots thin, rounded or slightly cordate at the base, more 

 deeply lobed, often (y-^j cm long and 5-6 cm wide. Flowers 

 1. 5-1. 6 cm in diameter, on long slender glabrous pedicels, in wide 

 lax, mostly 8-io-flowered corymbs, the lower peduncles from the 

 axils of upper leaves; calyx-tube narrowly obconic, glabrous, the 

 lobes abruptly narrowed from broad, bases, slender, acuminate, 

 entire or occasionally obscurely dentate, glabrous, reddish, reflexed 

 after anthesis; stamens 10; anthers pink; styles 3 or 4, surrounded 

 at the base by a narrow ring of matted pale hairs. Fruit ripening 

 from the first to the middle of October and persistent after the fall 

 of the leaves, on slender reddish pedicels, in few-fruited drooping 

 clusters, short-oblong or slightly obovate, somewhat angled, bright 

 orange-red, lustrous, marked by numerous small pale dots, 

 1. 2-1. 4 cm long, and about i cm wide; calyx prominent, with a 

 narrow deep cavity, and spreading and slightly incurved lobes, dark 



