IG. R. GOLEM ANN I. 127 



IG. R. Colemanni Biox. 



R. caulc arcuato angulato subglabro, aculeis multis 

 sub3et[iialibus declinatis ad basin valde dilatatam com- 

 pressis, foliis quinatis, foliolw convexis supra opacis 

 suhtus viridihus in venis hirtis irregulariter dentatis 

 incambentibus, foliolo terminali rotundato-cordato- 

 acuminato (ramorum floriferorum rotundato vel late 

 ovali), panicukie elongatse infei'ne foliosse ramis ascen- 

 dentibus corymbosis vel ramis axillaribus racemosis 

 aculeis multis tenuibus deflexis declinatisve setis aci- 

 culisque multis, sepalis cinereo-tomentosis hirtis. 



R. Coleimtnni Blox. ! in Kirby, 38 (1850). Bab.! Man. 

 ed. G. 109. 



B. fusco-ater p Colemanni Bab.! Man. ed. 3. 101; ed. 4. 

 104. 



B. infestus Blox. ! MS. (in part, not of Weilie). 



Stem arching, angular thro ugh on t, with a few aciculi 

 and seta3 and scattered hairs ; the aciculi often having deci- 

 duous glandular tips. Prickles on the angles of the stem, 

 nearly equal, strong, but rather slender, short, declining, 

 from a much compressed and long base. Leaves quinate or 

 lurely ternate. Leajiets broad, all stalked, imbricate, con- 

 vex, plicate, slightly pilose above, scarcely paler not felted 

 but densely hairy on the chief veins and pilose on the 

 others beneath, irregularly and doubly dentate ; basal ob- 

 long, acuminate ; intermediate obovate^ cuspidate ; terminal 

 roundly cordate-acuminate ; midribs and petioles, which are 

 flat above, with many strong slender slightly curved prickles 

 beneath ; stipules linear-lanceolate. 



Flowering shoot from fuscous scales, nearly glabrous and 

 with many small seta? and short thick-based aciculi through- 



