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incurved glandular teeth, and divided usually, above the middle into 

 3 or 4 pairs of narrow acuminate spreading lobes; deeply tinged 

 with red, strigose above and glabrous below when they unfold, 

 about half grown when the flowers open late in May or early in 

 June, and then thin, yellow-green and scabrate on the upper sur- 

 face and paler on the lower surface, and at maturity thin but firm 

 in texture, dark dull bluish green and still slightly roughened above 

 and paler below, 4-5 cm long and 3.5-4 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 glab- 

 rous, glandular with minute usually deciduous glands 2-2.5 cm in 

 length ; stipules linear to linear-obovate, glandular, green, caducous ; 

 leaves on vigorous shoots thicker, broadly ovate, rounded, truncate or 

 cuneate at the base, coarsely serrate, more deeply lobed and often 

 6-J cm long and broad, with stout conspicuously glandular petioles 

 2.5-3 c^ i^ length. Flowers 1.6-1.9 cm in diameter, on long slender 

 glabrous pedicels, in small mostly 5-9-flowered corymbs, the lower 

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

 obconic, glabrous, the lobes slender, glandular at the acuminate 

 apex, minutely glandular serrate near the middle, glabrous, often 

 bright red, reflexed after anthesis; stamens 5-7; anthers light rose 

 color ; styles 3 or 4, surrounded at the base by a narrow ring of 

 pale tomentum. Fruit falling late in October without becoming 

 soft, on stout drooping pedicels, in few-fruited clusters, full and 

 rounded at the apex, abruptly narrowed at the base, crimson, 

 pruinose, marked by small pale dots, 1-1.2 cm long and 9-10 mm 

 in diameter ; calyx little enlarged, without a tube, with a deep 

 narrow cavity tomentose in the bottom, and small spreading and 

 incurved lobes dark red on the upper side ; flesh green, dry and hard ; 

 nutlets 3 or 4, acute at the ends, rounded and grooved or ridged, 

 with a high narrow ridge on the back, 6-6.5 mm long, and 4-4 5 

 mm wide. 



A dense shrub 3-4 m high, with stems covered with dark gray 

 bark, ascending branches forming a narrow compact head, and 

 stout slightly zigzag glabrous branchlets deeply tinged with red 

 when they first appear, becoming light chestnut-brown, lustrous and 

 marked by dark lenticels in their first season and dull gray-brown 

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

 chestnut-brown shining spines 3-3.5 cm long. 



Coopers Plains, G. D. Cornell (;^84, type), October 7, 1906, 

 June 3, 1907. 



