29. R. RADULA. 195 



i?. rudls (i Lelghtonii Bell Salt. ! in A. N. H. xvi. 307. 

 Bab.! Syn. 22; Man. ed. 4. 102. Leiglit. ! Shrop. Kubi 



i7:(sp.). 



R. Lhifjua P tomentosus Bab. ! Syn. 25; Man. ed. 2. 103. 

 R. Radula v. sylvaticus Wirtg. ! Herb. Rub. No. 89 (sp.). 

 R. Radula fS Leightonii Bab. Man. ed. 5. 105 ; ed. G. 114. 



7 denticidatus ; fuliulo terminali late quadrangulari- 

 obovato cuspidato basi subcordato late sed inepte den- 

 tate dentibus denticulatis. 



R. Radida y denticidatus Bab.! Man. ed. 5. 105; Man. 

 ed. G. 114. 



R. rud'is € denticulatus Bab. ! in A. N. H. xix. 87. 



Stem arcuate, round at the base, angular above. Prickles 

 unequal, large, conical, patent, from a large compressed base. 

 Acicidi and setce many ; hairs rather fewer ; all short but 

 unequal. Leaves quinate-pedate. Leaflets slightly convex, 

 dull and glabrous above, whitish and hairy and felted be- 

 neath, doubly but finely dentate-serrate with the primary 

 teeth usually subpatent, wavy at the cJge ; basal lanceolate ; 

 intermediate obovate, acuminate; terminal roundly obovate, 

 acuminate-cuspidate ; midribs and petioles with many, un- 

 equal, hooked prickles beneath ; stipules linear-lanceolate ; 

 petioles flat above. 



Flowering shoot from fuscous scales, slightly wavy, hairy, 

 slightly setose and aciculate. Prickles strong, from a large 

 base, declining. Leaves quinate or ternate. Leaflets usually 

 clothed like those of the stem, but sometimes nearly with- 

 out felt ; uppermost floral leaves often simple, broadly cor- 

 date-3-lobed-acuminate or ovate-acuminate. Panicle narrow, 

 leafy, very hairy, aciculate, setose, felted; prickles of rachis 

 slender; branches short, corymbose, ascending, axillary ; top 

 racemose, with few short, patent, few-flowered, corymbose. 



