124 15. K. GRABOWSKII. 



dentate (or sometimes the irregularity is very slight except 

 in the direction of the points of the teeth, or the third or 

 fourth tooth is larger than the others) ; basal oblong-ovate, 

 rather unequal-sided ; intermediate nearly round, with a 

 cordate base, abruptly cuspidate ; terminal roundly cor- 

 date, broader than long, abruptly cuspidate, but at the 

 end of the shoot they are often cordate-oblong-acuminate; 

 midribs and petioles which are scarcely (if at all) furrowed 

 with very many much hooked prickles beneath; stipules 

 very narrow. 



Flowering shoot long, nearly glabrous. Prickles like 

 those of the stem but often smaller, deflexed or declining, 

 longest and most abundant near to and within the panicle. 

 Leaves quinate and like those of the stem, or ternate with 

 the lateral leaflets very broad and with a broad large rounded 

 lobe on the outer side; uppermost floral leaves three-lobed or 

 simple and ovate, cuspidate. Panicle long, narrow, hairy 

 but not felted, very slightly setose, very prickly; branches 

 ascending ; about three of the lowest axillary, rather long 

 but falling short of the leaves, racemose-corymbose, rather 

 distant ; others corymbose and forming a close leafless 

 raceme ; peduncles and sepals hairy, felted, aciculate, with 

 many very short pale setae. Sepals oblong, acuminate with 

 a short flattened point, greenish with a narrow white edge 

 externally, loosely reflexed from the oblong black fruit. 

 Fruit rarely produced. Seeds very broadly J-ovate; inner 

 edge gibbous below, otherwise straight; sides convex. 



I have not seen living specimens of this plant, nor even 

 dried ones of the flowers, nor does Mr Bloxam give us any 

 information concerning the petals, stamens or styles. 



The R, carpinifolius of Eng. Bot. Suj^pl. (tab. 2664) is 

 probably the same specifically as my R. Grabowskii, although 

 it difiers in some respects. Its stem is more commonly fur- 

 rowed and is rather thickly clothed with clustered spreading 



