pressed and sometimes a little curved. Leaflets 5 or 7 ;
serratures large, irregularly gashed, or occasionally simple,
edged with minute glands. Stipules large, pale, their underside
and edges glandulose : upper ones broader, usually
coalescing, where the flowers form bunches, into large concave
pointed bracte® ; under the solitary flowers mostly
retaining 1 or 3 leaflets. Flower-stalks setose. Calyx-
segments glandulose on the back, slender and downy upwards
with a long leafy point, simple, or with a linear-lanceolate
pinna or two; sometimes, as in other species, the
whole segment is broader, with leafy edges and several irregular
wings, indicating some degree of monstrosity. Petals
deep-pink, shorter than the calyx. Styles included, hairy,
with depressed pale stigmas. Fruit usually with a few
strong set®, rather large, orange red, ovate with a lengthened
neck, crowned with the persistent segments of the
calyx.
The bush from which our specimens were taken exhibits
no set®, nor have we seen them on any other specimens.
For their usual existence we depend on Mr. Lindley, who
has had better opportunities of studying the species, and
has assigned it a place among the Cinnamomece. Still it is
possible that he has used the term setae in its less strict sense,
for setaceous prickles not tipped with a gland.—W. B.