268 40. R. CORYLIFOLIUS. 



downy, usually dark purple on the upper side, glaucous and 

 with scattered stellate down when young ; setse and aciculi 

 very few, except at the base. Prickles strong, nearly equal, 

 abundant, slightly declining or slightly deflexed, from long 

 compressed bases. Leaves quinate, a little concave. Leaflets 

 flat, doubly dentate-serrate, dull green and pilose above, pale 

 green or whitish felted and hairy beneath ; basal sessile, 

 obovate ; intermediate broadly obovate, often unequal- sided, 

 acute ; terminal roundly obovate, often cordate at the base, 

 cuspidate ; petioles (which are flat above) and midribs with 

 few strong hooked prickles beneath; stipules linear- lanceo- 

 late. Sometimes the basal and intermediate leaflets of each 

 side combine to form single deeply lobed leaflets. 



Flowering shoot from brown silky scales, slightly angu- 

 lar, glaucous, with scattered stellate down. Prickles rather 

 abundant (especially towards the top of each internode in a 

 more marked manner than in the other varieties), strong, 

 slightly declining, from long compressed bases. Leaves 

 mostly ternate ; uppermost sometimes simple, three-lobed. 

 Leaflets clothed like those of the stem ; lateral ovate, un- 

 equal-sided, or lobed externally ; terminal roundly obovate, 

 cuspidate. Panicle leafy below, short ; top and branches 

 corymbose ; often consisting only of the short broad naked 

 top and two or three moderately long axillary branches ; 

 rachis often markedly wavy, but sometimes nearly straight ; 

 rachis branches and peduncles with a few short setae, be- 

 coming more hoary with fine felt as the flowers are 

 approached. Sepals ovate, rather cuspidate, hairy, felted, 

 slightly setose, slightly aciculate towards the base, reflexed. 

 Petals white or pink, roundly ovate, blunt, jagged, shortly 

 clawed. Filaments purplish. Anthers yellow. Styles often 

 pink at the base, otherwise greenish. Primordial fruit-stalk 

 short, not so long as the sepals. Nuts unequally ovate ; 

 inner edge convex. 



