glabrous; leaves sessile, punctate, scabrous at the margins, palmately 5-lobed, lobes spreading, ovate-lanceolate, acute, mucronate, coarsely dentate or the middle trifid; upper leaves with lanceolate, acuminate, paucidentate or trifid lobes; male peduncles solitary, 1-flowered or subumbellate. Glaucous-green, much-branched. Lower leaves 1 1/2–2 inches long and broad, at the middle 5-lobed; middle lobes 8–12 lines long, 8 lines wide, 5-dentate or the lower teeth attenuated into 4 lines long, acute lobes; lateral lobes dentate and shorter. Upper leaves 3-fid, or, when 5-parted, the lobes often very small, 2–3 lines broad, 1–1 1/2 inch long. Peduncle about uncial. Flowers and stamens as in C. quinqueloba. Fruit 2–2 1/2 inches long, nearly 1 inch broad, acute, with 16–20 seeds.
