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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 6-y cm wide. Flowers 1.6 cm in diameter, on 

 slender pedicels thickly covered with matted pale hairs, in wide 

 villose 2C)-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 (y-"j 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 



