REPORT OF THE STATE BOTANIST I907 lOI 



tube narrowly obconic, the lobes slender, acuminate, entire or 

 minutely glandular dentate near the middle, reflexed after anthesis ; 

 stamens 4-8 ; anthers bright pink ; styles 2-4, usually 3, surrounded 

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

 falling early in October, on slender drooping pedicels, in few-fruited 

 clusters, short-oblong to slightly obovate, full and rounded at the 

 ends, scarlet, lustrous, marked by small pale dots, 1-1.2 cm long 

 and 9-10 mm in diameter; calyx little enlarged, with a deep narrow 

 cavity and spreading and appressed or incurved generally persistent 

 lobes dark red on the upper side below the middle ; flesh thin, yellow 

 tinged with pink; sweet and juicy; nutlets usually 3, narrowed and 

 rounded at the ends, ridged on the back, with a broad deeply grooved 

 ridge, 5.5-6 mm long, and 4-4.5 mm wide. 



A slender shrub 3-4 m high, with stems spreading into small 

 clumps, and covered with light gray bark scaly near the ground, 

 long slender ascending dark greenish branches, and slender wand- 

 like conspicuously zigzag branchlets dark orange-green when they 

 first appear, becoming light chestnut-brown, lustrous, and marked 

 by pale lenticels in their first season and light gray-brown the fol- 

 lowing year, and armed with stout straight or usually slightly curved 

 chestnut-brown shining spines 2.5-4 cm long. 



Rich hillsides, near Coopers Plains, G. D. Cornell (#46, type), 

 May 25 and October 3, 1906. 



Crataegus insignata n. sp. 



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

 Leaves ovate, acuminate, rounded or abruptly cuneate at the base, 

 finely often doubly serrate, with straight glandular teeth, and slightly 

 divided usually only above the middle into 5 or 6 pairs of narrow 

 acuminate spreading lobes; more than half grown when the flowers 

 open about the 20th of May and then thin, yellow-green and rough- 

 ened above by short white hairs, and at maturity thin, yellow-green, 

 scabrate on the upper surface, paler on the lower surface, 5-6 cm 

 long and 4.5-6 cm wide, with stout midribs, and thin prominent 

 primary veins extending to the points of the lobes ; petioles slender, 

 slightly wing-margined at the apex, 3-3.5 cm in length. Flowers 

 1. 3-1 .6 cm in diameter, on short slender pedicels, in compact mostly 

 6-14-flowered corymbs, the elongated lower peduncles from the 

 axils of upper leaves ; calyx-tube narrowly obconic, the lobes long, 

 slender, acuminate, entire or minutely glandular dentate below the 

 middle, reflexed after anthesis; stamens 5-8; anthers pale rose 



