TREES AND SHRUBS. 



MALLS LANCIFOLIA, Rehd. 



Malus lancifolia, n. sp. 



Leaves, ovate-lanceolate to oblong-lanceolate, acute or shortly acuminate at the apex, rounded 

 or broadly cuneate at the base, finely or sometimes more coarsely and frequently doubly serrate, 

 with short teeth pointing forward, and occasionally furnished with a few larger teeth ; when they 

 unfold covered with thin floccose tomentum, soon becoming quite glabrous, bright yellowish green 

 on both sides, from 3.5 to 8 centimetres long, from 1.5 to 3 centimetres broad, with from eight to 

 ten pairs of veins ; petioles slender, slightly villose while young, soon becoming glabrous, from 1 

 to 2 centimetres in length ; leaves of leading shoots, ovate or oblong-ovate, slightly lobed, more 

 densely pubescent on the lower surface, from 6 to 9 centimetres long and from 4 to 6 centi- 

 metres broad, with thin midribs and five to seven pairs of veins slightly villose even at maturity, 

 their petioles stouter, coated with dense villose tomentum partly persistent until autumn, usually 

 only about 1 centimetre in length ; stipules filiform, pubescent, about 5 millimetres long, early 

 deciduous. Flowers from 3 to 3.5 centimetres in diameter, on slender glabrous pedicels, about 3 

 centimetres in length, in three- to six-flowered umbel-like racemes ; calyx-tube obconic, glabrous 

 on the outer surface, the lobes oblong-lanceolate, longer than the tube, glabrous on the outer 

 surface, coated with villose tomentum on the inner surface ; petals oval, 1.5 centimetres long, 

 rounded at the apex, abruptly contracted below into a long narrow claw, glabrous, white or rose 

 color; stamens shorter than the petals; styles five, as long as the stamens, densely villose below 

 the middle. Fruit subglobose, from 2.5 to 3 centimetres in diameter, on slender drooping pedicels 

 from 2 to 3 centimetres long, green covered by a waxy exudation. 



A small tree, sometimes 7 metres high, with a trunk 3.7 decimetres in diameter, and spreading 

 spiny branches forming an open pyramidal head, the branchlets slightly pubescent or nearly gla- 

 brous when they first appear, becoming reddish brown at the end of their first year, older branches 

 covered with a dark brownish gray bark remaining smooth for a long time ; bark of the trunk 

 brownish gray with shallow longitudinal fissures, separating in thin plates and disclosing a brown- 

 ish red inner bark. Winter-buds glabrous, purplish brown. Flowers appear in May. Fruit 

 ripens at the end of September. 



Pennsylvania : Lackawanna County, Scranton, June 9 and September 20, 1907, November 14, 

 1910, Spring Brook, A. Twining, May, 1907 (in herb. Arnold Arboretum) ; Munro County, 

 Cranberry Marsh, B. Long and E. B. Bartram, June 1, 1907 (in herb. Acad. Nat. Sci. 

 Phila.) ; Crawford County, near Hartshorn, O. E. and G. K. Jennings, May 29 and 31, 1909 

 (in herb. Carnegie Mus.) ; Somerset County, near Buckstown, attitude from 650 to 800 metres, 

 H. Brown and C. F. Saunders, July 12, 1898, Sand Patch, summit of the Alleghany Mountains, 

 C. F. Saunders, July 9, 1898 (in herb. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila.) ; Alleghany County, T. C.Porter, 

 May 10, 1872 (in herb. Arnold Arboretum), Powers Run, O. E. Jennings and G. E. Kinzer, 

 May 25, 1904, near Herriotsville, 8. W. Knipe, May, 1871, South Fayette, S. W. Knipe, May 15, 

 1900; Fayette County, Laurelvilla, O. E. Jennings, June 24, 1904; Westmoreland County, 

 Avonmore, K. R. Holmes, May 8, 1901, Hillside Station, O. E. Jennings, May 25, 1907, 

 Hillside Station, O. E. and G. K. Jennings, September 16, 1909 (all in herb. Carnegie Mus.). 

 West Virginia: Randolph County, near Elkins,A Rehder, August 24, 1907 ; Greenbrier County, 

 White Sulphur Springs, A. Rehder, August 31, 1907 (in herb. Arnold Arboretum). Virginia : 



