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united in the true sense of the word. The original description 

 says that "in all the flowers except one the style is decidedly 

 simple, but in that one it is bifid to near the middle." Mature 

 fruit of this species was observed for the first time last summer. 

 It is yellow, almost the color of old gold, but a trifle paler, glo- 

 bose, the body at least 8 mm. in diameter, densely covered with 

 weak glandular bristles about 5 mm. long. It is a handsome 

 species, the large white petals showing well against the deep 

 maroon of the sepals. The anthers are connivent around the 

 style, and are surmounted by a short outcurved mucro. 



«/ Kibes Parisliii 



Shrub, the bark whitened with a soft close tomentum: in* 

 frastipular spines apparently single, rather slender, declined, 

 pale brown, tomentose at the base, about i cm. long: leaves 

 broadly ovate or orbicular in outline, 3 cm, long and as broad, 

 or larger on young shoots, 3-lobed, the lobes coarsely crenate, or 

 the lateral ones sometimes slightly 2-lobed, white villous below 

 and on the margins, green and glabrate above when mature; 

 petioles slender, villous, usually equalling the blade: peduncles 

 slender, declined, about 2 cm. long, densely villous, usually 

 with several short branches near the end, each of which is sub- 

 tended by a small (i mm.) roundish densely villous bract: flow- 

 ers several in a cluster, but only one or two from each pedicel; 

 pedicels slender, villous, about 5 mm. long: calyx 8 or 9 mm. 

 long, purplish-red, strigose pubescent without, the tube campan- 

 ulate, 4 mm. long and nearly as wide across the top, pubescent 

 within; the lobes oblong, a little over 4 mm. long, 2 mm. wide, 

 glabrous and yellowish or greenish on the inside, the end 

 rounded: petals fan-shaped, colored like the outside of the sepals, 

 2 mm. long and as wide, delicately veined: stamens equalling 

 but not exceeding the unreflexed calyx; filaments rather stout; 

 anthers pale yellow, oblong, i mm. long: style densely villous 

 on the lower half, 2-parted to the middle (or occasionally 3- 

 parted), exserted 2 mm. beyond the stamens: ovary glabrous or 

 sometimes a little villous. 



