Drscr. Stem tall, subscandent, round, robust below ; 
branches slender, together with the petioles midrib of the _ 
leaflets beneath, peduncles and calyx clothed with close-set 
long spreading stiff gland tipped red-purple hairs, which in 
the lower part of the stem are giandless, and are mixed 
with slender straight or recurved prickles. Leaves five to 
seven inches long, pinnately 3-foliolate, or uppermost simple, 
petiole and rachis slender; leaflets green and glabrous 
above, covered with snow-white tomentum beneath, crenate- 
serrate; lateral sessile, ovate, acute; terminal larger and 
similar, or broader and three- to five-lobed; base rounded 
or cordate; stipules linear, persistent. Racemes terminal 
and eight- to ten-flowered, or shorter few-flowered and 
axillary. J"luwers pedicelled, pedicels a quarter to three- 
— quarters of an inch long; bracts linear. Calyx one and a 
half to two inches in diameter, segments spreading in. 
flower, narrowly lanceolate, acuminate. Petals minute, 
erect, between spathulate and trapezoid, crenate, claw 
ciliate, pale rose-red. Stamens very short. Carpels hairy. 
Fruit ovoid-oblong, three-quarters of an inch long, of forty 
or more ellipsoid scarlet glabrous drupes. Seed rugose.— 
J D. A, 
Fig. 1, glandular hairs and prickles from lower part of branch; 2, petal; 3, 
stamens ; 4, carpels; 5, fruit :-—all but Jig. 5 enlarged. 
