30. R. KOEHLERI. 201 



R. echinatus Liudl. ! Syn. ed. 1. 94. Leiglit. ! Fl. Shrop. 

 235. 



E. fasco-ater y echinalus Bab. ! Syn. 2G; Man. ed. 2. 104. 

 Leiglit.! Shrop. Ilubi, 19 (sp.). 



M. o'itdis Lindl. ! Syn. ed. 2. 93. 



A\ glandulosus Sm. ! Eng. Fl. ii. 403 (excl. Syn.). 



R. Koehleriy 'palliilus Leight. ! Shrop. Rubi 20, (sp.). 



R. Koehleri /? cuspidatus Bab. Syn. 27 ; Man. ed. 2. 104. 



R. pallidas Lindl. ! Syn. ed. 1. 94. Esenbech ! in 

 Leight. Herb. (sp.). 



Stem arching rather highly at the base, afterwards 

 I)rostrate, roundish. Prickles many, very unequal, straight, 

 usually slightly declining, from long compressed bases. 

 Acicidi strong, resembling small prickles and springing 

 from bases which are similar to but usually shorter than 

 those of the prickles. The stronger setm closely resembling 

 the aciculi, the weaker like the hairs. Leaves quinate or 

 very rarely teruate. Leaflets convex, dark green and nearly 

 or quite glabrous above, paler beneath, with many short 

 hairs upon the veins, but usually glabrous between them, 

 doubly and often rather patently dentate ; basal directed 

 backwards, oval, acute, stalked j intermediate obovate, 

 acuminate or slightly cuspidate ; terminal broadly obovate, 

 acuminate or slightly cuspidate, rather cordate at the base ; 

 petioles (which are furrowed above) and midribs with many 

 deflexed prickles beneath ; stipules linear-lanceolate. 



Flowering shoot from fuscous scales, armed like the 

 stem, but usually with more aciculi, setse and haii-s. Leaves 

 ternate. Leaflets stalked, obovate, acuminate or obovate- 

 lanceolate, clothed and toothed like those of the stem. 

 Panicle long, leafy, truncate, with short ascending usually 

 racemose axillary branches ; ultra-axillary branches rather 

 long, patent, corymbose ; rachis and peduncles usually very 

 prickly and setose. Sepals aciculate, setose, ashy, ovate- 



