minal leaflet frequently dividing (owing probably to luxuri- 
ance induced by artificial culture) at the lobes so as to 
give off a second lateral pair; but in this case the terminal 
leaflet is always proportionately smaller than in the more 
usual ternate ones, and the upper leaflets smaller than the 
lower. The fruit we have not seen. 
A low suffrutescent upright numerously branched plant: 
branches ascending, round, flexuose, grey-furred, with scat- 
tered wideset recurved reddish prickles. Leaves petiolate, 
ternate-quinate, smooth and green at the upper side, tomen- 
tose and white at the under; leaflets from half an inch to an 
inch in length, obovately round, jagged and dentate, at the 
lowermost part cuneate and entire, midrib prickly underneath, 
lateral ones sessile or very shortly stalked, the upper pair 
(in the quinate leaves) cuneately oblong and narrower; 
terminal one much larger than the lateral pair in the ternate 
leaves, but only equal to the lower lateral pair in the qui- 
nate ones, where the two lobes have parted into a separate 
upper pair: common petiole 14-2 inches long; prickly and 
furred: stipules 2, upright, linear, furred, lower ones gene- 
rally simple, upper and floral ones generally 2-3-cleft. 
Flowers without scent, crimson, terminal, loosely and 
levelly panicled, upright, about 4 of an inch in diameter; 
peduncles or branchlets 1-3-flowered, lower ones axillary in 
full-grown leaves, upper in stipulaceous leaflets: bractes 
like the stipules. Calyx rotate, revolute, tomentose prickly 
greenish grey on the outside, on the inside silkily furred and 
white tinged with rose-colour, permanent; segments ovate 
taper-pointed tipped with a rather fleshy deep-green point. 
Petals 5, deciduous, even with the calyx and stamens, 
quite upright, subcontiguous, spatulately round, lamina 
obovately round, crenulately eroded, pressed against the 
Stamens; unguis narrow shorter of the same colour. Sta- 
mens numerous upright surrounding the pistils closely; 
filaments white; anthers brown; pollen cream-coloured. 
Pistils numerous upright crowded; styles dark crimson, 
smooth; germens green hirsute. 
