164 22. R. SPRENGELII. 



beneath, ratlier irregularly serrate ; basal and intermediate 

 lanceolate; terminal shortly and broadly obovate, acuminate; 

 or the ternate leaves with elliptic-acuminate rather unequal- 

 sided basal leaflets ; midrib and petiole, which is not furrow- 

 ed above, with few strongly hooked prickles beneath ; 

 stij)ules linear-lanceolate. 



Flowering shoot from fuscous scales, very hairy. Prickles 

 few, small, strong, from a long base. Leaves ternate. 

 Leaflets elliptical, acute at both ends. Panicle corymbose 

 or thyrsoid, slightly leafy below; branches divaricate, 

 corymbose, few (2-4) flowered, axillary ones patent and 

 falling short of the leaves, or rather pyramidal with a sub- 

 corymbose top; lower branches rather distant, axillary, 

 longer than the others but not equalling the leaves ; rachis 

 and peduncles with few slender slightly declining prickles, 

 few aciculi, more numerous sunken setae, much hair and felt. 

 Sepals ovate-acuminate, leaf-}>ointed, hairy, felted, with many 

 short sunken setae, erect-patent and slightly clasping the 

 fruit. Petals narrow, obovate, entire, clawed, pink. Fila-' 

 ??ie?i^s pink. J ?i^/iers greenish. Styles Y>'^\e greQu. Primordial 

 fruit hemispherical ; stalk shorter than the sepals. Nut 

 J-ovate ; inner edge nearly straight. 



13 S2')rengelii; caiile seepissime prostrate teniii, aci- 

 culis et setis subnuUis, aculeis parvis, foliis ssepe ter- 

 natis, foliolis flexibilibus, panicula laxa pauciflora sub- 

 corymboso-pyramidata. 



E. Sprengelii /3 Sprengelii Bab.! Man. ed. 3. 9S; ed. 

 G. 112. 



P. Spre7igelii Weihe in Bot. Z. (Flora) ann. 2. ii. 18 

 (1819); in Pvubi Germ. 32. t. 10. Tratten. Eos. iii. 39. 

 Bab.! Man. ed. 2. 100; Syn. 17. Wirtg. ! Rub. rhenan. 51 

 (sp.). Fr. ! Herb. Norm. xv. 49. (s]x). Genevier (sp. !). 



