culent and brittle, clothed with scattered hairs, so rigid 
as to be almost prickles. Leaves rough with short rigid 
hairs, alternate, five to six inches long, ovate in their 
circumscription, pinnated with equal pinne, or only becom- 
ing gradually smaller at both extremities: these pinne are 
oblong-lanceolate, patent, pinnatifid, the segments ovate, 
obtuse, inciso-dentate ; the rachis grooved above. Pedun- 
cles terminal, elongated, bearing a corymb of from four to 
six spikes of dense, unilateral, circinnate flowers : the lower 
ones on short pedicels. Calyx cut into five very deep, 
unequal, linear segments, which are erect, and clothed with 
long, patent, rather rigid, white hairs. Corolla longer than 
the calyx, subcampanulate, reddish - purple, five-lobed : 
within the tube, alternating with the lobes, are five pairs of 
delicate, fringed, and incurved scales, and between each 
pair arise the filaments of the stamen, which are longer 
than the corolla. Germen ovate, clothed with long, silky 
hairs above. Style bifid, or almost bipartite, the segments 
filiform. Sétigmas acute. 
Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Portion of the Corolla with the Scales at the base 
ofa Filament. 3. Anther. 4. Pistil :—magnified. 
