quarter to half an inch long, the median longer than the 
lateral. Leaves suborbicular, three- or five-lobed, two- 
thirds to an inch and a half across, distinctly lobed or 
sometimes almost truncate at the base; lobes shortly and 
broadly crenate; petioles very slender, about a quarter of 
an inch long. Peduncles solitary, one-flowered, a quarter 
to a third of an inch long; bract solitary, spathaceous, 
deciduous, almost entirely enveloping the ovary. Calyx 
about half an inch long, glabrous, crimson, sometimes pale 
green at the apex of the lobes; tube subcylindric, about a 
sixth of an inch long; lobes oblong, a quarter to a third of 
an inch long, obtuse, at first spreading, afterwards re- 
flexed. Petals erect, white, broadly obovate, involute, a 
sixth of an inch long, an eighth of an inch broad, and 
minutely denticulate at the apex. Stamens as long as, or 
slightly longer than, the calyx-lobes; anthers sagittate- 
oblong, apiculate. Ovary densely covered with pallid 
spines, mixed with sessile or shortly stalked glands. Style 
slightly longer than the stamens, bifid. Berry sub- 
globose, red, about two-thirds of an inch in diameter, 
with spreading spines a sixth to a quarter of an inch 
long.—S. A. SKan. 
Fig. 1, peduncle and pistil; 2, bract ; 3, two of the petals and a stamen; 
4, a stamen :—all enlarged. 
