cuttings made of firm wood in August and placed in sandy 
soil under a cloche in some sheltered shady spot. 
Description.— Shrub, evergreen, 3-4 ft. high; branches 
tawny, deusely verruculose; twigs very short, bearing the 
clustered leaves and flowers. Leaves: primaries reduced to 
3-furcate spines, 3-3 in. long with frequently a much 
smaller additional spinule on each side; those of the 
abbreviated twigs 8-5, shortly petioled, elliptic-oblong, 
narrowed to both extremities, 2-1 in. long, about 4 in. 
wide, with 2-4 spinulous teeth on each side, coriaceous, 
glabrous, shining above with sunk midrib and_ lateral 
nerves, pruinose beneath with the midrib slightly raised. 
Pedicels 4-1 in. long, surrounded at the base by numerous 
deltoid-ovate or ovate-oblong, apiculate, imbricate red bracts 
each about 1 lin. long. Sepals 6, petaloid, yellow; outer 
ovate-orbicular, 2 lin. long; inner suborbicular about 3 lin. 
wide, Petals 6, yellow, each with 2 nectaries, obovate, 
3 lin. long, 24 lin. wide; outer 3-lobed with a minute 
mid-lobe, inner entire or slightly emarginate; nectaries 
distinct, oblong, small, adnate a little above the base of the 
petals. Stamens 6, 2 lin. long; filaments stout. Ovary 
2 lin, long, under 1 lin. wide ; stigma sessile, peltate, over 
1 lin, across. Berry oblong-ellipsoid, ab in. long, 
purplish-blue, peduisen: S-ellipsoid, about 3 in, long 
Fig. 1, part of stem, showing verrucae ; 2, leaf-spine and axillary short shoot ; 
vey — of the latter removed ; 3, petal; 4 and 5, stamens; 6, pistil :—ad/ 
eniarged. 
