P. carbasinum, subviscidum, foliis cordatis planis pal-
mato-subseptemlobis subdenticulatis utrinque pilosis:
lobis distinctis horizontaliter patentibus, stipulis
lanceolatis ovatisve acutis ciliatis, pedunculis pluri-
floris, petalis superioribus cuneatis, tubo nectarifero
calyce reflexo duplo breviore.
Stem frutescent, erect, clothed with a brown cracked
bark, much branched: branches more or less spreading,
thickly clothed with short woolly hairs, when young
slightly viscous, as are the leaves, peduncles, and calyx. Leaves cordate, scarcely acute, flat, or the edges slightly
undulate, generally palmately 7-lobed, and more or less
toothed with very short blunt teeth, clothed with short
hairs on both sides : lobes horizontally spreading, distinct,
flat, or a little hollowed on the upper side, scarcely
acute, the lower ones divided nearly to the base, and
2-lobed. Petioles rather slender, slightly flattened on
the upper side, and rounded on the lower, clothed with
short woolly hairs, as are the peduncles and calyx. Stipules
variable, the lower ones lanceolate and taper-
pointed ; the upper ones ovate and acute, all hairy and
fringed. Peduncles axillary or opposite to a leaf, cylindrical,
a little thickened and transparent at the base. Involucre of 6 to 8 bractes, generally connected into two
sets at the base; bractes ovate or lanceolate, acute, vil-
losely hairy and fringed. Pedicles longer than the bractes.
Calyx 5-cleft, the segments all reflexed, bluntish,
and mucronate; upper one broadest, ovate, the others
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