TREES AND SHRUBS. 



PRITNTTS POLYAKDRA, Sarg. 



Pkunus (Prunophora) polyandra, n. sp. 



Leaves oblong-elliptical or slightly obovate, gradually narrowed and acuminate or abruptly 

 long-pointed at the apex, narrowed and rounded or occasionally cuneate at the base and coarsely 

 doubly serrate, with straight glandular teeth ; at maturity thin, dark green, smooth and glabrous on 

 the upper surface, light yellow-green and coated below with pale pubescence most abundant on 

 the slender midribs and thin primary veins connected by slender cross veinlets, from 1.8 to 2.2 

 centimetres long and from 4 to 4.5 centimetres wide ; petioles slender, pubescent, glandular at the 

 apex, with from one to three large stipitate glands, from 1.2 to 1.4 centimetres in length. Flow- 

 ers from 2.2 to 2.3 centimetres in diameter, appearing before the leaves, on slender glabrous 

 pedicels about 1 centimetre in length, in mostly three- to five-flowered sessile or short-peduncu- 

 late umbels ; calyx-tube narrowly obconic, glabrous, the lobes acute or acuminate and occasionally 

 laciniately lobed near the apex, pubescent or glabrous on the outer surface, coated with pale 

 tomentum on the inner surface, reflexed after anthesis ; petals white, obovate, rounded at the 

 apex, gradually narrowed below into a short claw ; stamens as many as thirty-six, the longest 

 one third longer than the elongated style ; anthers yellow. Fruit on stout peduncles, subglobose, 

 often slightly broader than high, bright red, lustrous, with a slight glaucous bloom, from 1.8 to 

 2 centimetres in diameter ; stone obovate, pointed at the apex, gradually narrowed, acute at the 

 base, more or less compressed, unsymmetrical, nearly straight and slightly grooved on the ven- 

 tral edge, rounded and prominently ridged on the dorsal edge, from 1.2 to 1.5 centimetres long 

 and from 8 to 10 millimetres wide. 



A tree, from 7 to 10 metres high, with a tall trunk often 3 decimetres in diameter, covered 

 with dark deeply furrowed scaly bark, stout branches forming an irregular head, and slender 

 glabrous brancblets dull reddish brown and marked by pale lenticels in their first winter and 

 dull gray-brown the following year. Flowers appear late in May. Fruit ripens about the first 

 of July and does not entirely fall before the first of October. 



Rich woods, Fulton, Hempstead County, common ; J. H. Kellogg, March 27, June 31 and 

 August 31, 1910 (Nos. 247 type, 241 with fewer stamens). 



The specimens with young fruit collected at Fulton by B. F. Bush, April 25, 1901 (No. 184) and April 20, 1902 

 (No. 1387), are probably of this species, as is perhaps the specimen collected by him in Texarkana, Arkansas, April 8, 

 1905, also in young fruit (No. 2257). A specimen with leaves only, collected by Mr. Bush near Monteer, in Shannon 

 County, Missouri, August 25, 1894 (No. 238), also probably belongs here, as do perhaps his numbers 1489 with young 

 fruit and 4901 with leaves only from Monteer, and his No. 621 from Marshall, Texas, August 8, 1901, with leaves 

 only (all in herb. Arnold Arboretum). 



C. S. S. 



