REPORT OF THE STATE BOTANIST I907 9I 



the bottom, and small spreading lobes red on the upper side; flesh 

 yellow, thin and dry; nutlets 3 or 4, acute at the ends or slightly 

 narrowed and rounded at the apex, ridged on the back, with a low 

 grooved ridge, 5-5.6 mm long, and 4-4.5 mm wide. 



A narrow shrub sometimes 4 m high, with stems covered with 

 gray-green scaly bark, small ascending branches, and slender slightly 

 zigzag branchlets deeply tinged with red when they first appear, be- 

 coming bright chestnut- brown, lustrous and marked by pale lenticels 

 in their first season and dull reddish brown the following year, and 

 armed with stout straight or slightly curved chestnut-brown shining 

 spines 2-3.5 cm long, very numerous and becoming branched on old 

 stems and branches. 



Rich hillsides. Coopers Plains, common; G. D. Cornell (^32, 

 type), September 21, 1905, May 26, 1907; {^Sy), October 21, 1906. 



Crataegus uncta n. sp. 



Glabrous with the exception of the hairs on the young leaves. 

 Leaves ovate, acuminate, rounded at the entire base, finely doubly 

 serrate above, with straight glandular teeth, and slightly divided 

 above the middle into 2 or 3 pairs of small acuminate spreading 

 lobes; when they unfold bronze color and slightly hairy on the 

 upper surface and in the axils of the veins below, nearly fully grown 

 when the flowers open at the end of May and then very thin, nearly 

 glabrous, smooth and dark yellow-green above and pale below, and 

 at maturity thin but firm in texture, dark yellow-green, 4-4.5 cm 

 long and 3-3.5 cm wide, with thin midribs and primary veins ; 

 petioles slender, slightly wing-margined at the apex, pubescent on 

 the upper side while young, soon becoming glabrous, occasionally 

 glandular, 1.5-2 cm in length; leaves on vigorous shoots thicker, 

 often truncate at the broad base, more coarsely serrate and more 

 deeply lobed, 6-^ cm long and 5-6 cm wide. Flowers 1.5-2 cm in 

 diameter, on long slender pedicels, in small mostly 4-8-flowered 

 corymbs, the lower peduncles from the axils of upper leaves ; calyx- 

 tube narrowly obconic, the lobes short, broad, acuminate and glandu- 

 lar at the apex, coarsely glandular serrate, reflexed after anthesis ; 

 stamens 8-10; anthers slightly tinged wuth rose color; styles 4 or 5, 

 surrounded at the base by a broad ring of white tomentum. Fruit 

 ripening the end of September, on long slender drooping pedicels, 

 in few- fruited clusters, broader than long, truncate at the wide 

 apex, slightly narrowed to the base ; red, lustrous, marked by large 

 pale dots, 1.2-1.4 cm in diameter; calyx little enlarged, with a 

 deep narrow cavity, and small spreading or incurved persistent 



