Glasgow and at Woburn, and so rapidly does the plant 
come to perfection, that it bore flower and fruit the first year. 
Descr. Stem erect, three to five feet high, unbranched, 
woody below, herbaceous and succulent above, rounded. 
Leaves only from the upper part of the stem, on long 
rounded petioles, cordate, irregularly three- to five-lobed in 
a palmated manner, the lobes broadly oblong-acuminate, 
the middle lobe frequently trifid. On the nerves of the 
older leaves are scattered small, globose, white glands, 
sometimes in clusters. Flowers yellowish-white, in short 
panicles or clusters, from the axils of the leaves, much 
shorter than the leaf-stalks, moncecious? Male flowers, 
which alone have come under my observation, about an 
inch long. Calyx obsolete. Corolla with the tube long : the 
five oblong segments spreading. Pistil small, abortive. 
Stamens ten, in two rows, near the mouth of the tube. F%- 
laments short, broader upwards ; anther-cells applied to 
the inner face of the filament below the point. Fruit about 
the size of a hen’s egg, and nearly of the same shape, but 
more inclining to oval, baccate, bright orange, contain- 
ing several dark-brown seeds, muricated with large blunt 
spines. Embryo in a white waxy albumen. | 
Fig. 1. Male Flower laid open. 2. 2. Stamens. 3. Fruit, and 4, Dis- 
section of ditto, and 5, Seed (all nat. size). 6. Seed, magnified. 7. Al- 
bumen. 8. Albumen cut open, showing the Embryo. 9, Embryo :— 
magnified, 
