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ribs beneath rather more so, and the midrib beset with glands 
like the petiole, which bears also a few small prickles, which are 
faleate or almost uncinate. Stipules copiously fringed with glands, 
widened upwards, pointed and somewhat divaricate. Flowers 
usually three together, bracteate, the primordial bractew a pair of 
enlarged stipules with a terminal leaflet, the others simple, oval, or 
lanceolate, acute. Peduncle setose. Calyx-tube broadly ovate, 
almost globular, with a short neck, sparingly setose, sometimes 
naked, segments persistent, copiously setose and glandulose, shorter 
than the petals, with a slightly dilated point, and occasionally a 
i i ink. Styles included, 
hairy. Stigmas forming a round protuberant mass. Fruit scarlet.” 
one, since the strength of the glandular sete on the peduncle, 
combined with the considerable hairiness of leaflets, the deep pink 
Specimens from the Menai Straits, its original station, in 
cles 
which onl mall bush exists, h heir main pric 
mostly rather small, straight, horizontal or slightly declining, 
rarely a little th all aciculi not numerous, thoug 
decidedly large for the group, turning purplish in late summer, 
oblong, or elongate-ovate, z.¢. broadest rather below the middle, 
There is a note from Wilson on his specimen in Smith’s her- 
barium as follows :—‘ Fruit urn-shaped, not globose. Prickles 
very numerous, straight. Calyx-limb persistent, nearly erect, seg- 
ments keeled. Flower-stalks mostly with bracts. It is a slender 
about 3 ft. high, remarkable for the purple tinge of the 
