8 ADDISONIA 
foliage, and delicate flesh-pink flowers. The branchlets are spar- 
ingly armed with flattened, somewhat curved spines. The alternate 
compound leaves are dark green and shining above and paler be- 
neath, 5 sparsely giandular-pubescent rachis being sparingl 
arm h small spines; the stipules are about a half inch long, 
adnate es un rachis, with gland-tipped hairs on the margin, the 
free portion subulate. ‘The thick firm leaflets, usually five and 
rather distant, are ereuy oval or obovate, and usually an inch 
to an inch and a half long and an inch or a little more in width, 
with an acute or abruptly pointed apex and a rounded base; the 
margin, except usually at the base, is very coarsely toothed, the 
—— pointed. ‘The double flowers are solitary, or in clusters of 
o to four, rarely more, the stalks with a few gland-tipped hairs; 
the Sees are at first somewhat pointed, finally expanding and spread- 
ing into a flower sometimes three or four inches across 
GEORGE V. NASH. 
