330 LI. ROSACEiE. (J. D. Hooker.) [Bubus. 



tomentose, often prickly; stipules and bracts pectinately pinnatifid. Mowers ^-f 

 in. diam. Calyx-lobes broadly ovate, acute, with 2-5 long marginal teeth, densely 

 tomentose, almost villous, erect in fruit. Petals as long as the calyx, white. Fila^ 

 ments hairy. Carpels numerous, glabrous. Fruit of 20-30 small drupes, stone wavy 



on the surface. 



A specimen from Birma ? in Griffith's Herb, is more glabrous with more slender 

 petioles. B.Finlaysonianus, Wall. CaU 7109, from Siam, known only from a frag- 

 ment in bud, differs in the apparently entire calyx-lobes clothed with buff tomentum. 



ttt Leaves normally broade?' than lany, palmately 5-7-lobed ; stipules ptn- 

 natifid or pectinate, Carp>els many, 



11. XI. moluccanus, Linn. ; DC. Prodr. ii. 5G6 ; eglandular, tomentose 

 ■villous or siiblanate, prickles scattered short curved, leaves long-petioled usually 

 deeply cordate broad ovate or orbicular obtusely or acutely 3-7-lobed tootlied 

 smooth scabrid or rugose above, beneath clothed with grey or yellow wool or 

 pubescence, panicles axillary and terminal, calyx villous and silky, lobes lan- 

 ceolate or ovate acute entire or with pectinate margins, carpels very many.-- 

 Roxh. Fl. Ind. ii. 518 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Ind. Bat. i. part 1, 382 ; Wall. Cat. 74d; 

 Kurz For. Flor. Brit. Burm. i. 437. R. nigosus, S^nith in Bees C^c. xxx. 

 Bt(bus 34 ; Dm Prodr. 234 ; Wight et Am. Prodr. 299 ; Dalz. 8f Gibs. Bomt. 

 Flor. 89 ; Thwaites Enum. 101 ; Wight. Ic. t. 225 ; Wall. Cat. 748 ; Plant. As. 

 Bar. iii. 19, t. 234 {Hamiltoniamis) . R. alcesefolius, Pmr. Encycl. vi. 247. «• 

 micropetalus, macrocarpus, and Fairholmianus, Gardner in Calc. Journ. M • 

 Hist. viii. 6. R. cordifolius, Don Prodr. 233. R. reflexus, Ker in Bot. Beg.4SjL} 

 Bonth. Homj-Kmig Flor. 104. R. Hamiltonianus. Seringe in DC. Prodr. »> 

 566. — Bwnph. Amboin. v. 88, t. 47, f. 2. 



Central and Eastern tropical and temperate Himalaya. Nepal, JfaZZ/cA. SikkdJ, 

 alt. 3-7000 ft. Assam; Khasia Mts., alt. 3-6000 ft. Burma. Eastern Pk^vikscia. 

 Western Peninsitla or the Ghats from Eombay Southward. Ceylon ascending 

 7000 ft. — Distrib. Malay Archipelago and Islands. , , ^ 



Stem very robust, with wide spreading subscandent branches, densely ciO| 

 with white grey or fulvous tomentum; prickles hooked, flattened. Leaves ^'^ J 

 diam., most variable in texture and pubescence; upper surface smooth or ^^J^^.^^ 

 with tubercles answering to the spaces between the nrrvules ; under pubescen ^ 

 lous or clothed with cottony wool, grey or green or buff- coloured, never ^^^*-^J^ !Lj 

 petiole 2-4 in., glabrate or tomentose ; stipules variable in size, oblong, too ^^^ 

 pinnatifid laciniate or pectinate. Inflorescence usually clothed with silky du ^^ 

 mentum, rarely white or glabrate. Flowers very variable in size, from a'^./^'Jjjg 

 rather contracted terminal panicles and axillary capitate clusters ; bracts n e ^^. 

 stipules, never bearing gland-tipped hairs. Calyx-lobes W in. long, ^^ . ^j,^it. 

 angular-ovate, rarely lanceolate, and then pinnatifid in the upper part, erect ^° ^^. 

 Tctals obovate, white, shorter than the calyx -lobes. Filaments glabrous. ^^ J^^^ 

 numerous, glabrous. Fruit globose, succulent, of many scarlet small drupes, 

 ceptacle villous; stone rugose. , . ^^j^jer 



I am quite unable to arrange the form of this common and protean V^j^^^^^i,,^ 

 recognisable varieties answering to its synonymy. The original /?. W(?t« 

 founded on the plate and description of Eumphius, has leaves with a ^^^^^^ J.[ee. 

 surface (folia superne quam maximo rugosa) and a whitish or ochreous under s \^^ 

 I have it from Assam, the Khasia Mts., Penang and Java ; and with the lobes ^^^ 

 acute from Nepal and almost all localities, where it becomes i?. rugosufi, ^^*' ^jq 

 scribed as such by Wallich (Plant As. Ear.), and figured under its ^l^^^i^x^ 

 B, Hamiltonianus. Specimens with acuminate leaf-lobes occur at consi 

 elevations in the Himalaya and Khasia Mts., where the leaves also ^^^J^^ and 

 membranous and very large with pale undersurface ; at similar ®^®^?' .^ gepals 

 localities large leaved states occur with very large flowers, and ^^^^^ . jec^y 

 § in. long. The branches and inflorescence of Malacca specimens are most 



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