peduncle, broad, obpyramidate, an inch long, ancipitate, trialate, 
forked at the apex, slightly hairy. #VZowers inserted at the base 
of the fork of the peduncle, clustered, surrounded by scariose 
bracts, of which the interior are furnished with hard, green, 
spreading spines, some subulate, others semi-hastate, all very 
sharp. Calye at first cylindrical, at length infundibuliform, yel- 
low, the Zimb campanulate, scariose, five-toothed, and minutely 
crenulated. Petals five; the long claws approximated into a 
tube, longer than the clayx, the /amine spreading, obovate, bifid, 
pale-yellow. Stamens and style included. 
Fig. 1. Peduncle, with flowers. 2. Flower, with an inner bractea. 3. Calyx, 
after the fall of the corolla :—magnijied. 7 
