Innsbriick Botanical Gardens, which flowered in June, 1900, 
in the Arboretum, it being then a foot high. 
Descr.—A low, densely branching and leafing bush, with 
spreading or deflexed branches, closely covered with un- 
equal, hooked, flattened prickles. Leaves one and a half to 
two inches long; petiole and rhachis slender; leaflets 
seven, orbicular, or very broadly ovate, tip rounded or 
acute, acutely toothed, lateral about half an inch long, 
terminal larger, all dark green, sparsely glandular beneath ; 
stipules narrow, acuminate. lowers solitary, shortly 
peduncled, about an inch and a ‘quarter in diameter ; 
peduncle and ellipsoid calyx-tube quite smooth. Sepals 
rather shorter than the bright, rose-coloured petals, margins 
Sparsely glandular; appendices oblong-lanceolate. Fruit 
pisiform, red, at length black, crowned with the persistent 
sepals.—J. D. H. 
indotied leaflet; 2, unexpanded flower; 3 and 4, stamens; 5, ovary:—Alé 
