11. LEESII. 45 



2? R. Leesii. Bub. 



R. caule erecto tereti, aculeis setaceis recii^, foliis 

 ternatisj foliolis omnibus rotundato-ovatis subsessilibus 

 inibricatis, aculeis ramoruin floriferorum pedunculo- 

 rum([ue paucis setaceis hcvd hulbosis, floribus racemosis. 



i?. Leesii Bab.! in Steele's Handb. 60 (1847); Man. ed. 

 3. 92 (1851); ed. 6. 105; in Ann. Nat. Hist. Ser. 2. ix. 

 123. Lees in Eng. Bot. Suppl. t. 2981. Syme's Eng. Bot. 

 iii. 161. t. 443. 



B. Idceus y. Leesii Bab.! Syn. 6 (1846). Bell Salt, in 

 Hook, and Am. Br. Fl. ed. 7. 123. 



H. Idceus c. fragrarice-similis Lees in Lond. Cat. Br. PI. 

 (name only). 



Rhizome widely creeping. Stem erect, nodding at the 

 top, terete, downy, with short adpressed hairs and many sub- 

 sessile glands, 2 — 3 feet high. 2\ickles many, slender, seta- 

 ceous, declining, with bulbous or oblong bases, pale purple. 

 Leaves ternate. Leaflets similar, roundly ovate, dark green 

 and rugose above, snowy white and felted beneath, coareely 

 crenate-serrate-apiculate ; lateral sessile, overlapping the very 

 shortly stalked terminal leaflet. Petioles furrowed and ha\nng 

 a few small declining prickles beneath ; the midribs of the leaf- 

 lets either unarmed or having a very few minute prickles 

 beneath. Stlpides very slender. 



Flowering shoots from fuscous scales, short, flowering in 

 their upper half, clothed with short deflexed hairs. Prickles 

 slender, setaceous, declining, from bulbous bases. Leaves 

 mostly simple, cordate, slightly 3-lobed, very coarsely cre- 

 nate-serrate, green above, greenish white beneath : some- 

 times there is a small ternate leaf at the base of the shoot 



