256 89. R. BALFOURIANUS. 



patent, from an oblong rather cushionlike base. Leaves 

 qninate. Leaflets large, dull green rugose and pilose above, 

 paler and often so densely covered with silky hairs beneath 

 as to seem felted, although the actual surface is glabrous, 

 dentate-serrate in a rather irregular manner or sometimes 

 doubly serrate ; basal subsessile, oblong or obovate, unequal 

 sided below, usually overlapping the intermediate leaflets 

 which are broadly oval or lanceolate ; terminal roundly 

 cordate-cuspidate or oval-acuminate on the same plant : 

 rarely the leaves are ternate with very large leaflets of 

 which the basal are strongly lobed on the outer edge, and 

 the terminal is sometimes cordate-sub-3-lobed ; petioles 

 (which are furrowed above) and midribs with small slightly 

 declining prickles beneath ; stipules narrowly lanceolate. 



Flowering shoot from reddish-brown scales, round, 

 clothed with woolly hairs or sometimes nearly glabrous, 

 with rarely a few aciculi and setae, prickly like the stem. 

 Leaves ternate. Leaflets clothed like those of the stem, 

 coarsely or doubly dentate; basal sessile, strongly lobed 

 externally ; terminal broadly obovate or lanceolate. Panicle 

 corymbose ; having many patent hairs, rather few setae, 

 very few aciculi ; branches corymbose although few-flowered, 

 or simple and 1 -flowered, erect-patent ; one branch (usually 

 the lowest and the only one that is axillary) resembling and 

 often nearly equalling the rest of the panicle; sometimes the 

 branches are very long and very few-flowered so as to form 

 an exceedingly diffuse panicle ; peduncles more hairy and 

 setose, felted ; rachis wavy, seeming to be forked where 

 the main branch is given ofil Biuls depressed. Sepals 

 ovate-acuminate, greenish, hairy, shortly-setose, felted, often 

 leaf-pointed, erect-patent. Petals contiguous, roundly oval, 

 denticulate, pale pink. Filaments pale pink. Anthers 

 greenish. Styles flesh-coloured. Fmdt oblong, sometimes 

 very large, black purple, having a slight taste of mulberry : 



