branches herbaceous? brown, hirsute with stellate hairs; spines few, scarcely 1 lin. long, subulate, straight, acute, yellowish-brown, polished; leaves sinuately pinnatifid, the lobes gradually decreasing in size downwards, 7–8 in. long, 5–6 lin. wide, tapering into the petiole, green and hirsute with adpressed simple gland-based hairs above, pale reddish and hirsute with adpressed stellate hairs beneath, bearing straight subulate compressed yellow spines 3–4 lin. long on both sides; petiole 5–7 lin. long, subterete, stellately hirsute, spiny; cymes racemose, few-flowered, stellately hirsute; upper flowers sterile; calyx cup-shaped, stellately pilose, spiny, accrescent; lobes ovate-lanceolate, acute; berry globose, 1 in. in diam., yellow; seeds obovoid-elliptic, scrobiculate, subcompressed, 1 1/2 lin. long, pale chestnut. null
