and branches dark green and bright orange, the younger ones 
wholly orange. Leaves a foot long and upwards, ovate or 
obovate-oblong, pinnatifidly lobed to the middle or lower, 
deeply two-lobed at the base, dull green; lobes horizontal, 
sinuate, subacute ; midrib and horizontal nerves orange-red ; 
prickles scattered on the midrib and nerves of both surfaces ; 
petiole robust, cylindric, armed with scattered stout prickles. 
Cymes lateral, scorpioid, 6—10-flowered; rachis and pedicels 
clothed with short prickles, reddish yellow. Flowers two and 
a half inches in diameter, pale blue-purple. Calyz-tube green, 
hemispherical, and its lobes stellately hairy, both clothed with 
short stiff bristles; lobes one quarter of an inch long, recurved, 
ovate-lanceolate, subacute, green. Corolla nearly flat, lobed 
to about the middle, the lobes rounded apiculate, margins 
concolorous waved. Anthers about one quarter the length of the 
corolla, narrowly linear-oblong, yellow, with two apical pores, 
filaments very short. Ovary glabrous ; base of style pubescent. 
—J. D. A. 
Fig. 1, Calyx and ovary :—enlarged. 
