FROM DARJEELING TO TONOLO. Ill 



Rub us. The " ground-raspberry " of Dr. Hooker. 



Abundant. In fruit in August at 7000-9000 peel. alt. 



Rubus, sp. Stem and petioles dark-coloured and glandulose-pubescent. 

 Leaves completely tripartite. Leaflets ovate or elliptic acuminate, 

 very sharply serrate, silver-sericeous beneath, with 15-25 pairs of 



parallel veins. Panicles compound, from the upper axils. Sepals to- 

 mentose, and with bristly glands. 



This Bubus is common at 7000-9000 ped. alt. 



Rub us. sp. Stem and peduncles adpressed, silver-silky. Leaves digi- 

 tately qiunquefid to the base. Leaflets narrow, lanceolate, very 

 closely serrate, silver-sericeous beneath, with 40-50 pairs of very 



close parallel veins. Flowers in small short clusters, chiefly in the 

 lower axils. Sepals adpressed, white, silky. 



Abundant at 8000 ped. alt. 



These two Bubi are not new, but have names which I have for- 



gotten. The following species was sent to me by Dr. King; and 

 I afterwards collected it on many occasions. 



R. macrocarpus, King, MS. Viridis laxe molliter pilosa. Stipulae 

 magnre valde latte alte fimbriate. Folia tripartita, foliolis latis ser- 

 ratis subtus reticulato-venulosis. Pedunculi ex axillis superioribus 

 orti 2-pollicares, 1-flori. Sepala 1| unciam longa ovata caudata 



margine integro at ssepe segmentis lanceolatis subulatisque aucta, 

 dorso setis deflexis munita. Petala magna alba rotunda. Carpella 

 valde numerosa: in fructu interiora drupacea (omnino Rubi) y exteriora 

 (in fructu maturo) hevbacea viridia pilosa longe lanceolata supra inte- 

 riora conice conniventia. Fructus quam caeterorum Ruborum duplo 

 major. 

 In Sikkim ad 8000-9000 ped. alt. Sat frequens. 



This Bubus, which is plentiful both on the Tonglo and Sinchul 

 ridges, is remarkable by its very large fruits, which are green 

 when ripe; but on then separating them, the interior carpels are 

 seen to be succulent, though the outer are elongate lanceolate 

 herbaceous. It might easily be made a new r genus ; but the habit 

 is exactly that of Bubus. 



Dr. King had completely examined and described this remark- 

 able species in MS. last year, but reserved publication ; and Mr. 

 Kurz tells us that there has since appeared in some German 

 periodical a description taken from a dried herbarium scrap. 3n 

 this case not only does Dr. King lo3ehis name, but botany suffers 

 the loss that the species starts from a less perfect original de- 

 scription. 



