irregularly serrate, five- to seven-nerved; uppermost leaves 

 three-lobed. Stipules erect, obliquely lanceolate, the upper- 

 most leaves subulate, gland-toothed. Corymbs numerous, 

 terminating the branches, six to twelve inches across, much 

 branched. Flowers and all their parts wholly of a fine crim- 

 son colour, small, one-eighth of an inch diameter, shortly 

 pedicelled. Calyx lobes very small, broadly oblong, obtuse, 

 recurved. Petals nearly orbicular, concave. Stamens very 

 numerous, filaments capillary, flexuous; anthers very minute. 

 Carpels four to six, hairy, with short recurved styles and 

 capitate glandular stigmas. — J. I). H. 



Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Carpels: — magnified. 



