REPORT OF THE STATE BOTANIST igi2 6l 



1 1 Leaves yellow-green above, thin 

 Anthers dark rose color 

 Calyx-lobes short and broad 



Leaves oblong-ovate, long-pointed; flowers in 5-8- 

 flowered corymbs; fruit abruptly narrowed and 

 often mammillate at the base, scarlet, pruinose. . 



C. numerosa 

 Leaves oblong-ovate, acuminate; flowers in 8-12- 



flowered corymbs; fruit crimson, lustrous 



C. f o 1 i a t a 



Calyx-lobes long and slender; leaves oblong-ovate, 



deeply tinged with red when they unfold ; fruit 



crimson, lustrous C. colorata 



Anthers pale pink ; calyx-lobes long and narrow ; leaves 



ovate ; fruit scarlet, lustrous C. cruda 



ft Mature leaves scabrate on the upper surface 



J Leaves blue-green on the upper surface, ovate to rhombic ; 

 fruit crimson, pruinose, remaining hard at maturity. . . . 



C. a c e r b a 

 XI Leaves yellow-green on the upper surface 



Leaves broadly ovate to triangular ; anthers pale 

 rose color ; fruit on long slender drooping pedi- 

 cels, light cherry-red, pruinose 



C. dissociabilis 

 Leaves broadly ovate ; anthers purple ; fruit on 

 stout erect or spreading pedicels, crimson, prui- 

 nose C. barryana 



Tenuifoliae 



Leaves thin, hairy on the upper surface early in the season, becom- 

 ing smooth or scabrate ; petioles long and slender ; flowers in 

 glabrous or slightly villose corymbs ; stamens 10 or less, or 

 rarely 20, anthers rose color or pink ; fruit short-oblong, sub- 

 globose or obovoid, red, lustrous, ripening in August or Septem- 

 ber, the flesh soft and succulent, mature calyx small and sessile. 

 * Stamens 10 or less 



f Fruit longer than broad 

 I Fruit usually short-oblong 

 Leaves yellow-green above 



Upper surface of mature leaves glabrous 

 Leaves ovate, acuminate 



