REPORT OF THE STATE BOTANIST I907 IO9 



face, 4.5-6 cm long and 4-5 cm wide, with thin prominent yellow 

 midribs and primary veins; petioles stout, slightly wing-margined 

 at the apex, glabrous, sparingly glandular early in the season, usu- 

 ally with deciduous glands, generally rose color in the autumn, 

 2-3 cm in length; leaves on vigorous shoots rounded at the base, 

 coarsely serrate, rarely slightly lobed, and often 8-fo cm long and 

 6-7.5 cm wide, with stout broadly winged conspicuously glandular 

 petioles. Flowers 1-1.2 cm in diameter, on slender slightly villose 

 pedicels, in narrow compact mostly io-i6-flowered corymbs ; calyx- 

 tube narrowly obconic, glabrous, the lobes wide, acuminate and red 

 at the apex, glandular serrate, glabrous on the outer, villose on the 

 inner surface, reflexed after anthesis; stamens 5-7; anthers pale 

 rose color; styles 2 or 3, surrounded at the base by a narrow ring 

 of long white hairs. Fruit ripening the end of September, on stout 

 slightly spreading pedicels, in few-fruited clusters, subglobose, dark 

 red, lustrous, marked by small pale dots, i-i.i cm in diameter; calyx 

 little enlarged, with a broad shallow cavity, small spreading and 

 closely appressed persistent lobes villose and dark red on the upper 

 side; flesh thick, juicy, orange color; nutlets 2 or 3, rounded at the 

 ends, ridged on the back, with a broad high doubly grooved ridge 

 slightly penetrated on the inner faces by wide depressions, 5-5.5 ni"^ 

 long, and 3.5-4 mm wide. 



A shrub occasionally 6-8 but more often 3-4 m high, with stout 

 stems covered with dark bark scaly near the ground, ascending 

 branches forming an open irregular head, and stout slightly zigzag 

 glabrous branchlets dark orange-yellow and marked by pale lenti- 

 cels when they first appear, becoming dark chestnut-brown and 

 lustrous in their first season and dull reddish brown the following 

 year, and armed with numerous stout straight or slightly curved 

 chestnut-brown shining spines 3.5-6 cm long. 



Rich hillsides, near Coopers Plains, G. D. Cornell (;^6o, type). 

 May 26 and September 21, 1906, June and September, 1907. 



TOMENTOSAE 



Leaves thin 



Anthers rose color; stamens 12-20 



Crataegus diversa n. sp. 



Leaves oblong-obovate, acute, acuminate or rarely rounded at 

 the apex, gradually narrowed to the long concave-cuneate entire 

 base, coarsely often doubly serrate above, with straight glandular 



