232 34. K. PYRAMIDALIS. 



slightly cordate at the base ; the quinate leaves have the basal 

 leaflets equally obovate ; intermediate Tinequal-based and 

 cuspidate, terminal obovate cuspidate ; petioles (which are 

 not furrowed above) and midribs armed beneath, similarly 

 but less strongly than the stem ; stipules linear. 



Flowering shoot from brown scales clothed with ashy 

 silky down, very hairy. Prickles rather many, short, a few 

 longer and declining from long bases. Aciculi and setse 

 few, short. Leaves ternate, large, like those of the stem ; 

 upper floral leaves simple, ovate or cordate and lobed. 

 Panicle very long ; branches long, axillary, ascending, race- 

 mose, felted, the upper few-flowered and rather corymbose ; 

 top ultra-axillary, pyramidal, with rather long few-flowered 

 or 1 -flowered patent or divaricate branches, with many 

 aciculi and setae ; whole panicle pyramidal, very stifi", very 

 hairy, with slender straight prickles ; general and partial 

 rachis and peduncles nearly or quite straight. Sepals 

 lanceolate, attenuate, long-pointed, felted, with a few purple 

 setse and a few purple aciculi. Petals distant, narrowly 

 ovate, attenuate below, greenish white, often more than five 

 in number. Filaments white. Anthers greenish. Styles 

 pink at the base, becoming more pink after the petals have 

 fallen, pale green towards their top ; there is a broad clear 

 flat space between the stamens and pistils. Primordial 

 frvAt-stalk as long as the calyx. Primordial fruit oblong, 

 rather longer than the other fruit, closely surrounded by the 

 calyx which is either patent or forced back by it. Nut 

 roundly ^-ovate; inner edge quite stmight until near the 

 top ; style subterminal. 



This is one of the most beautiful, if not the finest, of our 

 brambles ; its panicle is often enormous, being several feet 

 in length, and of a very markedly pyramidal form. Its 

 lower panicle-branches are often very long, and resemble 

 secondaiy panicles. Its narrow, distant but numerous, and 



