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slender, subulate or almost aciculate, from flattish bases. Leafle 
ts 
thin in texture, large, elongate, usually oblong with parallel sides, 
; i s ] 
2in. by lin 
tose beneath, and almost always somewhat, though usually very 
finely, glandular all over the lower surface. The toothing is com- 
pound-serrate. The primary teeth are broader than deep, rather 
s 
less, rarely as much as 2 in. Occasionally it is quite ovoid, with 
the central one of a cluster somewhat obovoid, glandular-aciculate 
to a variable degree, but the acicles always stout, the largest often 
eglandular, rarely almost unarmed. The fruit is violet when ripe. 
sepals persist till its decay. Styles in a broad, densely villous 
head, usually covering the whole disc, but the latter may often be 
seen. Petals bright rose-red, or purplish, very often gland-ciliated 
both at the apex and the base. 
Déséglise made the mistake of supposing RP. pomifera to have 
: s are almost always 
reover, Herrmann 
deseri them as “glutinous.” Crépin points out this error 
(Bull. Soc. Roy. Bot. Belg. xxi. p- 100), and also remarks that the 
petals, though gland-ciliate on the lobes, are never so, in his 
experience, at the base. As regards the falcate auricles, which 
