328 LI. ROSACEA. (J. D. Hooker.) IRubus. 



pubescent tomentose or glabrate, prickles short stout recurved, leaves oblong 

 obtuse acute or acuminate serrate, stipules pectinate, panicles terminal, bracts 

 tomentose pectinate not exceeding the buds, calyx hoary with white down, pe- 

 tals small, carpels 6. Wight ^ Am. Prodr. 299 ; Wall Cat. 725 in part ; R. 

 indicus, Zf^cA. in DC. Prodr. ii. 568. R. pyrifolius, Herh. Ind. Or. Hoohf.^ 

 T. inpaj'ty not of Smith ; Kurz For. Flor. Brit. Burm. i. 436. 



Assam, Silhet and the Khasia Mts. ascending to 4500 ft. Katchyen hills, 

 AvA, Kurz. — DiSTRiB, Yunan. 



Climbing; stem as thick as the arm; prickles flattened. Leaves 1^-4 in., usually 

 cordate at the base, glabrous above, beneath pubescent or tomentose wholly or on the 

 nerves only, usually rugose when dry, not shining- nerves 8-10 pair, spreading and 

 arched; midrib beneath prickly ; petiole short, ^ in., stout, tomentose ; stipules white 

 and hoary, with no lamina. Panicles large and spreading, densely white-tomentose ; 

 bracts ^-\ in. Flowers J-J in. diam. Calyx-lobes erect in fruit, villous within, entire, 

 rarely 3-fid at the tip. PetalsYmG^r, white, shorter than the calyx. Carpels glabrous, 

 with very slender styles. Fruit of 1-6 large red-purple drupes ; receptacle villous ; 

 stone rugose. — This and the following have been usually confounded with the Java 

 R. pyrifolius which has shorter leaves with fewer and more oblique nerves. 



5. R. Kamiltoni, Hooh.f, 



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recurved, leaves oblong-ovate or -lanceolate aciuninate serrate, sti- 



._, ^ nate, panicles terminal, bracts glabrous pectinately lacimate lai 



ceding the buds, calyx with appressed hairs, tips of lobes long acuminate 

 tally laciniate, petals small, carpels 6. R. pyrifolius, Ham. in Herb. Wall. no. 



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Eastern tropical Himalaya : Ehotan alt, 5000 ft., Griffith 



Jt. 2-3000 ft., J. D. H. Assam, Hamilton, Masters, &c. 



Very similar toR. hexagynus, but readily distinguishable by its brown colour when 

 .dry, usually narrower and more acuminate leaves, less tomentose inflorescence, wniea 

 is nearly black when dry, and by the very large pectinately laciniate curved bracts 

 ffhich are membranous and cur^ang over the young buds give a curiously crinite ap- 

 pearance to the immature panicles ; the sepals also have usually longer tips split int 

 getaceous lobes. Fruit as in E. hexagynus. 



6. R, assamensis, Focke Batoqr. inAbhandl. Naturwiss. Veretn, Bre- 

 men, iy. 197 (1874) ; eglandiUar, branches petioles and panicles villous with son 

 spreading hairs, prickles very few short, leaves oblong or ovate-oblong very o 

 ecurely lobed acuminate toothed hairy above hoary with whitish down |^^®,^J' 

 nerves 5-6 pairs, petioles very short, panicles triangular, flowers small, caip 

 lobes tomentose, carpels 10-12 irlabrous. RubuR 20 Herb. Ind. Or. Hf- 9 



MisHMi HILLS, Griffith, and Khasia Mts. at Syong, alt. 5500 ft., H.f # ^- ^j^^ 



An erect whitish shrub ; prickles hooked. Leaves 3-4 in., acute or obtuse a ^^ 



base, rarely subcordate, nerves very oblique, margins sometimes without ^^^^^ 



lobing ; petiole \ in. ; stipules woolly, small, pectinately pinnatifid. Panicles as 



as long, shortly " ^-^"^ - -^-•..,"^^__- . \^ -^.^ .i„.. u.i^..ov;nt.o setaceous 



lobes. Flowers 



long 



entire, erect in fruit, inner surface glabrous with a broad tomentose margin.^ ^^^ 

 wholly absent in Khasia specimens. Carpels with a few long hairs and ^^y^^^^^ 

 styles. Fruit (in Mishmi specimens) globose, hardly exceeding the calyx ; 

 few ; receptacle villous ; stone pitted. 



tt Leaves lobed at the sides toicards the base^ noi'mally longer than hroaa , 

 pules pectinate. Carpels many. 



7. B,. grlomeratus, Blume Bijd 1111 ; eglandular, branches slen<l^r J^ 

 leaves beneath tomentose with white or buff down, prickles minute, ^^^^f^ ^ ^gry 

 cordate acuminate a-5 lobed. the iRti^ml Inhps nftar the base of the leai 



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