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cuneate at the entire base, sharply doubly serrate above, with 

 straight glandular teeth, and very slightly divided above the middle 

 into four or five pairs of small acuminate spreading lobes, nearly 

 half grown when the flowers open during the last week of May and 

 then membranaceous, light yellow, very smooth and sparingly 

 villose-pubescent along the midribs above, pale and glabrous below 

 with the exception of occasional short axillary hairs, at maturity 

 thin, glabrous, yellow green, darker on the upper than on the lower 

 surface, 7-9 cm long and 5-6 cm wide, with the slender yellow mid- 

 ribs and thin primary veins extending obliquely to the points of 

 the lobes; petioles slender, wing-margined at the apex, slightly 

 grooved, glabrous, occasionally glandular above the middle, tinged 

 with rose color, 2-3.5 cm i n length. Flowers on stout elongated 

 villose pedicels, the lowest peduncles from the axils of the upper 

 leaves, in wide 6 to 12-flowered corymbs, with linear acute glandular 

 rose-colored caducous bracts and bractlets ; calyx tube narrowly ob- 

 conic, sparingly villose at the base, the lobes foliaceous, acuminate, 

 red and glandular at the apex, laciniately toothed, glabrous on the 

 outer and villose on the inner surface, reflexed after anthesis; sta- 

 mens 20; anthers pale yellow; styles two or three. Fruit ripening 

 late in September or early in October, on long slender drooping 

 pedicels, in usually five or six-fruited clusters, short oblong, full and 

 rounded at the ends, crimson, lustrous, marked by small dark dots, 

 1 -1. 4 cm long and 8-12 mm wide; calyx prominent, with a deep 

 narrow cavity, and spreading erect or incurved coarsely serrate 

 lobes, dark red at the base, conspicuously villose on the upper sur- 

 face and mostly persistent on the ripe fruit; flesh thick, slightly 

 tinged with red, dry and mealy; nutlets usually three, gradually 

 narrowed and rounded at the base, narrowed and rounded or acute 

 at the apex, ridged on the back, with a broad slightly grooved 

 ridge, penetrated on the inner faces by wide shallow grooves, 7-8 mm 

 long and about 5 mm wide. 



A shrub 3-4 m high, with erect stems covered with dark 

 brown scaly bark and forming broad thickets, wide-spread ng 

 flexuose branches, and slender nearly straight branchlcts marked 

 by oblong pale lenticels, dark orange-green when they first appear, 

 becoming chestnut-brown and very lustrous and dull red brown in 

 their second season, and armed with numerous slender nearly 

 straight purplish shining spines 3-5 cm long. 



Menands, Golf ground, Charles H. Peck (#3 tgn, type), May 

 and October 1904, July and September 1905. 



