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parts, oo those with stem-prickles of two forms; both hooked 
and m r less straight, and those with similar stem- aes 
though often — acicles just below the inflorescence. makes 
comos of rincipal and eae aacien of the 
latter, with ‘the following leading variet 
B apricorum (Rip.), a suliglabooe-frnited form with sepals 
sacar not erect, and falling earlier than in BR. comosa 
ypica Braun has weaker, more slender prickles, globo se or 
inane -globose fruit ad short, spreading or early deciduous sepals. 
e quotes no synonymy, and it is not clear — raun meant 
this to be the type re = needeen or of R. apri 
comosella (Déségl. & Ozan.) is dwarf, with cediies branches, 
long straight prakige: ae oval or elliptical, obtuse leaflets, and 
mall, somewhat elongate 
+ dolorosa (Déségl. & pa i is sparingly prickly, with unarmed 
flowering-branches, glabrous s —— leaflets hairy on midribs 
only, and elongate fruit narrowed at top. 
Déséglise has only two British specimens. Mr. Baker's 
has stout hooked prickles, with acicles below the inflorescence: 
Peduncles 3-10, rather long. The fruit is ovoid, but too young 
to determine the ultimate direction of the sepals, which are long 
and —_ ees A specimen by Briggs, from Lea Mill Bridge, 
8. Dev s also too young, but an example from the same 
station, a labelled R. comosa, in the British collection, is probably 
rom the same bush. It has many stout much hooked prickles, 
fairly uniform, but one or two much eae er also a few acicles 
under the inflorescence, usually on the m 
— — broadly oval, rcislel t apex, consi iderabl y 
pubescent above, densely so beneath, very se oher, — biserrate. 
Patichie: very glandular, a good deal pubescent, with some sma. 
icklets. Bieptiles broad, with triangular acu secahe: iia 
eglandular on back. -Peduncles 2-4, short, glandular aciculate. 
Fruit subglobose; smooth or nearly so. Sepals rather short, a good 
deal glandular, not much pinnate, spreading erect on August 29th. 
Styles hispid. 
ER. comosa I think, our commonest British segregate of 
R. Rote but is not always well marked off from &. a, 
corum Rip. on one side, and R. comosella Déségl. & Osnae on the 
other. Its panicked sepals, ovoid fruit, aciculate —* and 
uniform stem-prickles are its leading characteristics 
Ro OCARPA 
ae ex Déséglise, Ess. re p- 110 (1861). 
scattered glands above, pubescent, and covered we 
