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minutely glandular serrate or entire, glabrous on the outer, slightly 

 villose on the inner surface, reflexed after anthesis; stamens 7-10; 

 anthers dark rose color ; styles 2-4, usually 3. Fruit ripening 

 at the end of Septehiber, on slender drooping or spreading reddish 

 pedicels, in few-fruited clusters, short-oblong, truncate at the ends, 

 scarlet, lustrous, marked by small pale dots, about i cm long and 

 8-9 mm in diameter; calyx little enlarged, with a deep narrow 

 cayity, and spreading slightly incurved persistent lobes ; flesh thick, 

 pale yellow ; nutlets 3 or 4, narrowed and rounded at the ends, 

 ridged on the back, with a broad low grooved ridge, about 6 mm 

 long, and 4.5-5 mm wide. 



A shrub sometimes 3-4 m high, with stems covered with ashy 

 gray bark, ascending branches forming a narrow rather open head, 

 and extremely slender slightly zigzag branchlets deeply tinged with 

 red when they first appear, becoming dark chestnut-brown, lustrous 

 and marked by small pale lenticels in their first season and dull 

 red-brown the following year, and armed with stout straight or 

 slightly curved light chestnut-brown shining spines 2.5-4 cm long. 



Rich hillsides. Coopers Plains, G. D. Cornell (#83, type), Sep- 

 tember 22, 1906, June 5, 1907. 



Crataegus recta n. sp. 



Glabrous with the exception of the hairs on the upper side of the 

 young leaves. Leaves ovate, long-pointed and acuminate at the 

 apex, rounded or abruptly concave-cuneate at the base, finely often 

 doubly serrate, with straight or incurved glandular teeth, and 

 slightly divided into 5 or 6 pairs of small acuminate spreading 

 lobes ; deeply tinged with red and roughened on the upper surface 

 by short white hairs when they unfold, more than half grown when 

 the flowers open at the end of May or early in June, and then thin, 

 yellow-green, still slightly hairy especially along the midribs above, 

 and at maturity thin, yellow-green, lustrous and slightly roughened 

 on the upper surface, paler on the lower surface, 5-6 cm long and 

 3.5-4.5 cm wide, with slender midribs and thin primary veins ex- 

 tending obliquely to the points of the lobes ; petioles slender, slightly 

 wing-margined at the apex, very glandular while young, the glands 

 generally caducous, i 5-2.5 cm in length; leaves on vigorous shoots 

 coarsely serrate and sometimes 8-9 cm long and 5-6 cm wide, with 

 foHaceous lunate persistent stipules. Flowers 1.5-1.8 cm in diam- 

 eter on long slender pedicels, in compact mostly 5-12-flowered 

 corymbs, the elongated lower peduncles from the axils of upper 



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