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ingly hairy on the upper side while young, soon becoming 

 glabrous, 1.2-1.6 cm in length; leaves on vigorous shoots 

 abruptly narrowed at the apex into long broad acuminate 

 points, gradually narrowed to the rounded base, thicker, more 

 coarsely serrate, and often 7-8 cm long and 5-5.5 crh wide, 

 with stout rose colored petioles. Flowers 1.5-1.9 cm in di- 

 ameter, on long slender slightly villose pedicels, in small mostly 

 5-8-flowered corymbs, the elongated lower peduncles from the 

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

 lobes gradually narrowed from the base, red and glandular at the 

 acuminate apex, minutely glandular serrate, glabrous on the outer, 

 slightly villose on the inner surface, reflexed after anthesis ; stamens 

 5-9 ; anthers rose color ; styles 1-3, usually 2. Fruit ripening the 

 end of September, on slender slightly hairy erect pedicels, in few- 

 fruited clusters, short-oblong to subglobose, orange-red, lustrous, 

 marked by small pale dots, 9-10 mm in diameter; calyx prominent, 

 with a deep wide cavity, and elongated spreading and appressed 

 lobes villose on the upper surface; flesh yellow, dry and mealy; 

 nutlets 2 or 3, gradually narrowed and rounded at the ends, or when 

 3 acuminate at the base and broad and rounded at the apex, ridged 

 on the back, with a broad low grooved ridge, marked on the inner 

 face, by broad depressions, 6-6.5 mm long, and 3.5-4 mrn wide. 



A shrub 3-4 m high, with stems covered with greenish gray bark, 

 ascending branches, and stout slightly zigzag glabrous branchlets 

 dark orange-green and marked by pale lenticels when they first 

 appear, becoming bright orange-brown and very lustrous in their 

 first season and pale gray-brown the following year, and armed 

 v/ith very numerous stout straight or slightly curved light chestnut- 

 brown shining spines 4-5 cm long. 



Rich hillsides, Coopers Plains, G. D. Cornell (^45, type), Sep- 

 tember 24, 1905, May 28, 1906. 



Crataegus inopinata n. sp. 



Leaves ovate to oval, acuminate, cuneate or rounded at the entire 

 base, coarsely doubly serrate above, with straight glandular teeth, 

 and occasionally very slightly divided above the middle into small 

 acute lobes ; bronze color when they unfold, about half grown 

 when the flowers open in the last week of May and then thin, light 

 yellow-green and roughened above by short white hairs and pale 

 and slightly villose in the axils of the veins below, and at maturity 

 thin but firm in texture, dark yellow-green and scabrate on the 

 upper surface, light yellow-green and glabrous on the lower sur- 



