are specimens in the herbarium at Kew collected by 
Mr. A. Henry near Wushan in the province of Szechuan 
and at Hsingshen in the province of Hupeh. 
DESCRIPTION.—Shrub, erect or scandent, sparingly 
branched, 3-6 ft. high; twigs smooth, when old brown, 
unarmed or at times sparingly prickly, prickles geminate, 
straight, spreading, slender, 1-1 in. long. Leaves rather 
close-set, 15-34 in. long, 3-5-foliolate ; rachis puberulous 
and sparingly glandular, with a few slender prickles; 
leaflets subsessile, ovate-oblong, subacute, closely dupli- — 
cate-serrate, beneath glaucous or grey-puberulous, 2 in. 
long, 1-2 in. wide ; stipules adnate, narrow-oblong, acute, 
about } in. long, their margin closely glandular. Flowers 
numerous, in small corymbs towards the ends of the 
branches, 3-1 in. in diameter ; peduncles about ? in. long, 
glandular-setulose. Receptacle ovoid-oblong, glandular- 
setulose, } in. long. Calyz-lobes ovate-oblong, caudate- 
acuminate, puberulous or almost tomentose, about 4 in. 
long, spreading or reflexed. Petals wide-obcordate. 
Filaments glabrous, ;';—1 in. long, with anthers golden- 
yellow. Fruit globose, glandular, about 1 in. long, tipped - 
by the persistent sepals. Achenes villous on the back, 
He in. long; styles villous, conjoined in a column} in. 
ong. 
Fig. 1, stipules and a proximal leaflet ; 2, a flower in vertical section, the 
removed; 3 and 4, anthers; 5, an achene :—all enlarged. 
