loamy soil, and can easily be increased by means of suckers. 
Its attractions as a shrub for the garden lie in its fine 
lobate leaves and in its abundant, pretty and distinct 
flowers. 
Description.—Shrub, suberect, 3-4 ft. high; branches 
again branching, somewhat striate, with a purplish bloom, 
smooth or sparingly prickly. Leaves petioled, simple, 3—5- 
lobed or sometimes almost entire, crenate or toothed, 14—5 in. 
long, #-5 in. wide, base usually deeply cordate, the lobes 
acute or subacute ; green above, white-pubescent beneath, 
distinctly reticulate ; petioles 1-3 in. long, sparingly prickly. 
Flowers few, in loose terminal corymbs; bracts. linear- 
lanceolate, acuminate, 1—lin. long; pedunclesslender, smooth, 
3-% in. long. Calyx glabrous externally, white-pubescent 
within, its lobes wide triangular-ovate, acute or acumi- 
nate, $~-4 in. long, their tips recurved. Petals elliptic- 
oblong or obovate, obtuse, white, about 4in. long. Stamens 
many, incurved, disposed in a circle; filaments glabrous, 
+ in. long, red below, white upwards. Carpels glabro 
styles +4; in. long, glabrous; stigma capitate 
few, orange. fo. 
Fig. 1, flower, petals removed; 2 and 3, stamens; 4, carpel :—all enlarged. 
