CELTIS GEORGIANA n. sp.
A diffuse shrub with slender often 2•ranked branches, the leafy twigs more or less pubescent. Leaves ovate, 2-5 cm. long, aver aging 2.5 cm. in length, or those on vigorous shoots sometimes 6 cm. long, acute, entire or sharply serrate above the middle, in equilateral, rounded or truncate at the oblique base, dark green, scabrous and occasionally sparingly pubescent above, paler and glabrous beneath, except for a few hairs on the nerves; petioles 1.5-4 mm. long, pubescent ; pedicels usually slightly curved, I.5 4 mm. long, pubescent ; drupes subglobose, sometimes broader than long, 6-7 mm. in diameter, tan-color, smooth and glabrous,
or sometimes glaucous ; seeds obovoid-globose.
Along or near streams, north-central Georgia. Flowers in the spring; matures its fruit in September.
Collected by the writer, first in the Yellow River Valley, near McGuire's Mill, Gwinnette County, in 1893, and in succeeding years at many points about Stone Mountain and the contiguous region.
A low species related to Celtis pendia, from which it may be distinguished by its smaller merely acute leaves, the very short pedicels and the smaller tan-colored drupes.