128 16. E. COLEMANNI. 



out. PricJdes (as also on the rachis and peduncles) many, 

 unequal, slender, declining or slightly deflexed. Leaves 

 mostly ternate. Leaflets broad, pale green, hairy and some- 

 times very slightly felted beneath, pilose above; basal 

 rather unequal-based ; terminal nearly round, cuspidate. 

 Panicle long ; branches few, short, few-flowered, corymbose ; 

 many lower axillary, short, racemose ; floral leaves often 

 simple, ovate or cordate ovate. Sepals ovate, narrowed to a 

 linear point, externally hairy felted setose and aciculate, re- 

 flexed. Petals distant, oval, clawed, blunt, denticulate, 

 white or pinkish. Filaments white. Anthers yellowish. 

 Styles pale green. Primordial fruitstalk longer than the 

 calyx. Seeds very broadly half-ovate ; inner edge nearly 

 straight throughout ; sides convex. 



Sometimes the terminal leaflets of the stem are almost 

 exactly cordate ; also occasionally some of the lower branches 

 of the panicle exceed the leaves and are very prickly. 



My specimen from Coventry is densely clothed with 

 silky hair on the ribs beneath the leaves, and the terminal 

 leaflets on the flowering shoot are oblong : the plant from 

 Packington has much, but very short and adpressed, hair on 

 those ribs, and the same leaflets are nearly round. Neither 

 plant has any felt on its leaves or on its panicle, but the 

 latter part and the peduncles are very hairy. 



Mr Bloxam believed that the Coventry plant is the true 

 R. infestus (Weihe), in which opinion I cannot agree. It 

 has not the formidable armature of that species as repre- 

 sented in the Ruhi Germanici. It is true that there are a 

 few gland-tipped aciculi and setae on this plant (as seen in 

 cultivation at Cambridge from seeds sent by Mr Bloxam), 

 but the stem is nevertheless exceedingly unlike that de- 

 picted on tab. 30 of the Ruhi Germanici. Nearly if not 

 quite as many may sometimes be found on several of the 

 species included in the next Subsection (Spectabiles), but 



