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A + leaflets, the rest glabrous, prickly. Leaflets 5-7, oval acute, 
ht green above, rather glaucous beneath, glabrous, firm, simply 
ptt all petioluled, terminal rounded at base se, acute or ending i in 
a little point. Stipules lanceolate, a little toothed, glandular at 
tips. Pedunceles short, dortiones solitary, or in a small corymb, 
ahorves than leaves and alm t hidden in bracts. Calyx-tube 
ounded, glabrous. Sepals asinnetifid, glabrous, tomentose on 
ges and within, salient “4 em reflexed, deciduous. Styles 
hispid in a short bundle. rs rose. Fruit erect, coriaceous, 
globular, a little attenuate oe hae .—Differs from _globularis - 
straight branches, petioles not glandular. Leafle simp 
no secondary glandular teeth. Stipules lanceolate ; fruit a little 
narrowed at base. From canina in pie si petioles, and 
sae ie ~we a little narrowed belo 
sol : 
The fruit is quite globose, or even retuse at base, and I have not seen 
as — “a little attenuate at the base,” which Déséglise repeats 
three tim The sepals are much pinnate. The styles are hispid. 
Grenier ays the central fruit is turbinate, but this also I have not 
ne or two sheets not nam Grenier have quite 
hairy midribs, which are exceedingly rarely found in this group, 
and I can hardly believe that Pat er intended to retain them in 
his o has them oe as Déséglise describes them, not 
ely in all specimens, however, both British — foreign, 
the les. vary from densely hispid to almost glab 
Mr. Baker, in his Monograph, says this “ aliteet Onl onl y from lute 
tiana by its broader leaflets, more rounded at the Sass. slightly 
pubescent petioles, globose fruit 7-8 lines broad and dee eep, and 
more villose styles.” —As already stated, the hairiness of the styles 
is a weak charac ter, the breadth of the leaflets is very variable 
- is odd that both the British specimens in Déséglise’s herbarium 
have narrow leaflets, though both — named with doubt), 
he ny seinen of the petioles is unreliable, an left with th woh 
oz onl portance, so we are e globose 
! Rag main se i ee of this dee This will, I think, dis- 
