branches somewhat shining, sparingly stellately hairy; spines numerous, 3 1/2–6 lin. long, straight, subulate from a dilated base, glabrous, yellow or reddish; leaves ovate, sinuately and obtusely lobed, obtuse, unequal and slightly rounded or acute at the base, with scattered stellate hairs on both surfaces and straight spines on the chief nerves; petiole 1–2 lin. long; peduncles 2–4 lin. long, usually solitary, 1- (rarely 2-) flowered, stellately tomentose, spiny; calyx 2 lin. in diam., subcyathiform, 5-partite, spiny on the tube; lobes ovate-anceolate, acuminate, acute, unarmed; corolla ochraceous, 5 lin. long, 5-fid, stellately tomentose outside and on the midribs inside, glabrous elsewhere; lobes ovate, acute; stamens 5, inserted at the top of the corolla-tube; filaments short, filiform; anthers ovate-linear, chestnut-brown, yellow and with 2 pores at the apex; ovary globose, stellately hairy, umbilicate after the fall of the style; style filiform, slightly thickened above, 3–3 1/2 lin. long, erect or nearly so, with white stellate hairs at the base, longer than the stamens, recurved at the apex. null
