. North American trees : being descriptions and illustrations of the trees growing independently of cultivation in North America, north of Mexico and the West Indies . Trees. 424 The Mountain Mahoganies 3. FEW-FLOWERED MOUNTAIN MAHOGANY - Cercocaipus brevifloTus A. Gray This small tree or shrub is confined to the high dry mountains near our south- ern border in western Texas, New Mexico, and eastern Arizona, extending southward into Mexico. Its maximum height is 7 meters, with a trunk diameter of 2 dm. The bark is about 3 mm. thick, slightly fis- sured, and scaly; the twigs are densely hairy,
. North American trees : being descriptions and illustrations of the trees growing independently of cultivation in North America, north of Mexico and the West Indies . Trees. 424 The Mountain Mahoganies 3. FEW-FLOWERED MOUNTAIN MAHOGANY - Cercocaipus brevifloTus A. Gray This small tree or shrub is confined to the high dry mountains near our south- ern border in western Texas, New Mexico, and eastern Arizona, extending southward into Mexico. Its maximum height is 7 meters, with a trunk diameter of 2 dm. The bark is about 3 mm. thick, slightly fis- sured, and scaly; the twigs are densely hairy, but soon become smooth and red-brown. The leaves are thick, oblong to obovate or elliptic, to cm. long, pointed or rounded at the apex, wedge-shaped below the middle; the en- tire, wavy or toothed margin is revolute; when young the leaves are densely whitish-hairy, but soon become grayish green above, paler be- neath, and softly hairy on both sides; the ve- nation is very prominent, especially on the under side; the leaf-stalk is stout, short, and usually reddish. The flowers are axillary, ses- sile or nearly so, usually solitary, sometimes 2 together; the calyx-tube is slender, about 5 mm. long, its lobes short, rounded, and densely covered with whitish hairs; in fruit it is stalked, spindle-shaped, red-brown, smooth toward the cleft apex, 8 to 10 mm. long. The nutlet is nearly cylindric, covered with long whitish hairs, its plume projecting about 3 cm. beyond the Fig. 371. - Few-flowered Mountain Mahogany. 4. MOUNTAIN MAHOGANY —Cercocaipus ledifolius Nuttall A characteristic tree or shrub of the high dry slopes of the western sides of the Rocky Mountains and westward, at altitudes of from 1500 to 2700 meters, being found from Wyoming to Oregon, south to New Mexico and California, reaching at its greatest development a maximum height of about 12 meters, with a trunk diameter of dm. The tnmk is short; the branches are stout and spreading; the bark of very o
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