138 18. K CARPINIFOLIUS. 



teeth very acute and remarkably directed forwards, dull 

 green and distantly pilose above, scarcely paler and often 

 densely hairy on the veins beneath and rarely felted ; basal 

 very shortly stalked; terminal rounded or subcordate at the 

 V>ase; petioles, which are probably flat above, and midribs 

 with slender hooked prickles beneath; stipules linear-lan- 

 ceolate. 



Flowering shoot from brown scales clothed with silvery 

 hairs, haiiy. Prickles few, small, slender, deflexed, from a 

 large compressed base, longest and strongest at about the 

 base of the panicle. Leaves ternate or quinate, like those of 

 the stem in all resjects; floral leaves simple or three-lobed. 

 Panicle compound, racemose, often nearly cylindrical, fre- 

 quently simple; branches short, few-flowered, corymbose; 

 lower axillary, racemose or corymbose, ascending ; rachis 

 and peduncles hairy, felted, with a few sunken seta^. Befols 

 lanceolate, gradually narrowed into a long slender point, 

 patent or slightly reflexed with the flower, reflexed from the 

 fruit, felted, hairy, aciculate. Petals ovate- lanceolate, much 

 narrowed below, white or reddish. ^^ Filaments pink. Styles 

 green." (Baker's MS.). Primordial fruitstalk as long as the 

 calyx. 



The stem is angular with the sides often quite flat and 

 striate, but in rare cases it is furrowed towards the tip : the 

 hairs are often nearly all scattered and patent; but some- 

 times they become more in number, form clusters and 

 diverge from their common base ; or are even so much 

 reduced in length as almost to pass into felt; or are so few 

 in number as to escape notice unless very carefully looked 

 for. The fine and very acute serration of the leaves usually 

 becomes double towards the tip, where it is sometimes even 

 slightly lobate : the under side is usually qidte without felt, 

 having only a dense covering of long hairs which are all 

 seated upon the veins; or a very fine coat of felt occupies 



