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reddish pedicels, in compact few-fruited erect clusters, short-oblong, 

 slightly narrowed from the middle to the ends, orange-red, lustrous, 

 marked by small pale dots, about 1.2 cm long and 8 mm wide; calyx 

 little enlarged, with a deep narrow cavity, and small closely ap- 

 pressed persistent lobes bright red on the upper side ; flesh thick, 

 yellow, dry and sweet; nutlets 3, narrowed and acute at the ends 

 or broader and rounded at the base, rounded and only slightly 

 ridged on the back, about 7 mm long, and 4 mm wide. 



A shrub 3-4 m high, with small ascending stems, and slender 

 nearly straight branchlets dark orange-green more or less tinged 

 with purple and puberulous when they first appear, soon glabrous, 

 becoming bright chestnut-brown, lustrous, and marked by numer- 

 ous small dark lenticles in their first season and dull reddish 

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

 curved chestnut-brown shining spines 2-3 cm long. 



Buffalo, J. Dunbar (;^ 10, type). May 28 and September 26, 

 1905; J. Dunbar C^ 37), May 28, 1905. 



Crataegus luminosa n. sp. 



Leaves oblong- ovate, acuminate, rounded, truncate or rarely cu- 

 neate at the entire base, finely doubly serrate above, with straight 

 glandular teeth, and slightly divided into 4 or 5 pairs of small 

 acuminate lateral lobes ; deeply tinged with red and covered on the 

 upper surface with soft white hair3 and glabrous below when they 

 unfold, about half grown when the flowers open at the end of May 

 and then yellow-green and scabrate above, and at maturity thin, 

 glabrous, smooth and yellow-green on the upper surface, pale on 

 the lower surface, 5-6 cm long and 3.5-4-5 cm wide, with slender 

 yellow micribs and thin primary veins extending to the points of 

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

 glandular throughout the season, often tinged widi rose color in 

 the autumn, 2-3 cm in length; stipules linear, glandular, fading 

 brown, caducous; leaves on vigorous shoots long-pointed, cordate 

 at the base, more coarsely serrate and more deeply lobed. Flowers 

 1.8 cm in diameter, on long slender glabrous pedicels, in wide long- 

 branched usually 8-io-flowered corymbs, the lowest peduncles from 

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

 lobes short, slender, sparingly dentate near the middle, glabrous on 

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

 sis; petals reflexed; stamens 20; anthers dark red; styles 5, sur- 

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



