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bracts, glabrous above, pubescent and abundantly glandular be- 
neath, covering and longer than the peduncles. Calyx-tube ovoid, 
hispid with slender, soft, not spiny glandular sete. Sepals short, 
oval-lanceolate, charged with stipitate glands on back and edges 
appendiculate and gland-ciliate at apex, three entire, two pinnate 
with 2-3 short lo bes, gland-ciliate, salient in bud, shorter than 
coralla, spreading in flower, then erect, connivent. Flowers small, 
Styles villous, disc little salieigh Fruit ovot 
ly, 
in Sue cit. xxxi. p. 169 (1892), ceeats says :—‘ e form of 
are those of omissa.’ 
are to be ab pug by Crépin’s! s bid aiuhtiahed ck quoted 
.. pales is R. resinosoides is only a longer cled 
fo . omissa, “the inference is that Déséglise’s specimens do 
not represent Crépin’s _— because the average length of the 
peduncles in “ herbarium of the former is not gre a than in 
omissa; while the two pe he quotes, viz. his own No. 75, 
and Billot, No. 360, have them decidedly shorter. I ere seen 
n cimen named by Crépin, who, in his later days, altered his 
views considera rably as regards his earlier publications, not onl 
about his own species, ar about rt of others. Still it is not 
really clear that he meant to throw over his original description 
published by Cottet. Keller however, geere that R. resinosoides 
is only an insignificant variety of the type (omissa), and as he 
does not as a rule hesitate to base varieties upon very sane 
dhawuitens. he cannot have seen much in Crépin’s species. 
notes are obviously condensed from Crépin’s own description, but 
he — the description of the Seagate to agree with Crépin’s 
latest note, thus: “ Peduncles mostly rather long, in many-flowered 
Geateals: ne middle flowers almost sessile.”” He emphasizes 
‘Prickles unequal.” Rouy and Déséglise call attention to the 
roundish fruit as ser with the obovoid ones of 2. omissa, 
and if Déséglise’s specimens are to be trusted, they bear this out 
in having “ap op — rib fruit, but some 7 
they are obovoid. Rou ishes further 
its more slender, straigh erp ia none of these differences 
