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•Sw5w5.] II. ROSACEA. (J. D. Hooker.) 327 



corneal or cylindric receptacle. Seed pendulous,— Distrib. Abundant m th& 

 northern hemisphere, rare in the southern ; species 100. / 



^ A genus of which the western European species are notoriously difficult of discri- 

 mination, as are some of the Himalayan. 



Series 1. Leaves simple, undivided or lobed. 



Herbs with creeping or prostrate stems. 



' 1. a. calycinus, JValL in Don Prodr. 235 ;^ Cat. 7S7 ; eglandular, stem 

 and petioles hirsute and prickly, leaves orbicular-reniform obsciu'ely lobed toothed 

 hairy above glabrous beneath except on the prickly nerves, flowers axillarv, ca- 

 lyx densely prickly, lobes deeply toothed. R. lobatus, TFalL MSS. Dalfbarda 

 calycina,DC. Frodr. ii. 568. 



Central and Eastern temperate Himalaya; Nipal, Wallich. Sikkim alt. 6-900l> 

 ft. Bhotan alt. 8500 ft. Khasia Mts. alt. 4-5000 ft. 



Almost black when dry ; prickles slender, slightly curved on stem and petiole:^, 

 oftf^ creeping for 1-3 ft. Leaves 1-3 in. diam., sometimes hairy beneath ; petiole 

 *-4 in. ; stipules ^-^ in., broadly ovate, serrate. Flowers 1 in. diam,, solitary or twin, 

 usually on erect 1-2-leaved shoots. Calyx-tube densely clothed with long straight ' 

 pnckles; lobes foliaceons, broad. Petals shorter than the calyx-lobes, erect in fruit. 

 Uruit globose of few large scarlet fleshy carpels ; stone rugose. — Very near a Philip- 

 pine Island species which has stipules cut into narrow lobes and smaller flowers. 



Shrubs, erect sarmentose or climbing. 



t Leaves oblong^ entire (obscurely lobulated in R. assamensis) ; stipules pecti- 

 ^^te (except in R. acuminatus ami Griffithii). Carpels feiv, G'1'2. 



R. acuminatus, 6";;^ in Rees Cyclop, xxx. Rubus^3\ eglaudulaiv 

 ^uite glabrous, prickles very few scattered curved, leaves ovate or lanceolate 

 caudate-acuininate doubly serrate, flowers small corymbose long pedicelled^ 

 coiymbs axillary and in elongated terminal panicles, bracts setaceous glandular^ 

 ^jx-lobes ovate glabrous with pubescent margins, carpels about 8. Wall 

 ^«^ 720. R. oxyphyllus, Wall Cat. 7110. R. betulinus, Don Prodr. 233. 

 ^- tnflorus. Ham. MSS. 



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Central and Eastern temperate Himalaya from Kv'i&koi^, BUnkworth, and Nepal 

 to biKKiM, alt. 4-7000 ft. Khasia Mts. alt. 4-5000 ft. 



Hcandent. Branches long, arching, cylindric; prickles very small, flattened, 

 ^^ely on the petioles. Leaves 3-5 in., rather membranous; base rounded; nerves 

 ^70 pair; petiole slender, i-f in.; stipules slender, almost setaceous, glandular. Pa- 

 ^^7** sometimes a foot long ; bracts small. Flowers ^ in. diam.. in threes or fives ; 

 picels i_,^ in. Calyx-lobes with recurved or hooked sometimes dorsal tips, erect m 

 iE -^^^«^5 much shorter than the calyx, white. Carpels glabrous. Fruit of largo 

 S^Owse scarlet drupes enclosed l>y the calyx, receptacle villous, stone rugose. 



. ^- R. Griffitbil, Hook. f. ; eglandidar, bmnches and leiivea glabrous, 

 Fickles few scattered curved, leaves oblong-lanceolate caudate acummate doubly 

 ^^te, panicles axillary and terminal elongate, flowers sessile scattered ur 

 *=ro^ded, bracts linear-oblong serrate, calyx hoary with appressed down. 



Eastern Himalaya; Sikkim. Herb. Griffith. 

 .^ery similar to ^.aeMm«fl/w5 in foliage, but with very bhort petioles, a totaLy 

 '''*''it inflnroc/»^»,^» 4.1,^ n «« ;« ^r^rvml^u nv fasciclcs. a densely tomentose 



difft 



calvi""" '"*^^^68cence, the flowers never 



only ' ^p ^.*°^^^ serrated bracts.— I h 



fcgjV ■'Possibly the locality is erroneous 



'"^^ and It was often difficult to decipl 



in bud 



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liexagrjmus, Roxb. Hort. Beng. 39 ; Fl Lid. ii. 516 ; eglandular^ 



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