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:villous with spreading hairs and the basal leaf-lobes overlap. The Western Ghat 

 specimens have the leaves rugose above and thin, and the branches and inflorescence 

 densely clothed with firm buif cottony tomentum. This is also the case with the 

 Ceylon specimens, of which Thwaites distinguishes 4 varieties :--a. bracts ovate 

 entire or cut at the tip, fruit small red (Wight. Ic. t. 225) ; j3. leaves smaller 

 narrower more acute, stipules and bracts cut into filiform segments, petals small, 

 frmt dark red (R, micro^etalus, Gard.); (I should refer this to glomeraius, Bl.); 

 7. tomentoso, pale, leaves very rugose and coriaceous, stipules and bracts less deeply 

 cut, panicle dense, calyx-lobes ovate-lanceolate toothed, fruit dark red {R. Fair- 

 mmianus, Gard.) ; 5. prickles short, stipules and bracts less cut, panicles few-flowered, 

 flowers larger, petals about equalling the calyx, fruit larger black {R. macrocarpus, 

 ^ard.) ; of these a. only inhabits low grounds. 



^ 12. R. reticulatus, Wall, Cat, 747 ; eglandular, pubescent with white 

 tomentimi, prickles few minute or 0, leaves cordate-orbicular subacutely 5-7- 

 wbed reticulated on both surfaces finely downy beneath, panicles entire or 

 laciniate ovate acute, calvx-lobes densely tomentose, fruit gloDose much larger 

 than the calyx. 



Temperate Himalaya ; from Kx;maox, alt. 7-8000 ft., to Sikkim, alt. 9-10,000 ft. 

 til 1 ^^ ^ expect will prove another form of R. moluccanus from a higher region, 

 ^e leaves of the Kumaon and Sikkim specimens are large broad and rather thin in 

 wxture ; Wallich's Nepal ones are more coriaceous, narrower and elongate with many 

 ^^^^\ lobes, more like those of R. fanimilaius, to which Wallich says it is * valde 

 anmis/ Sikkim specimens have the cut calyx-lobes. The fruit is very large. 



13. a. lanatus, Wall. Cat, 746 ; glandular, branches and leaves be- 

 ^eath white cottony, leaves cordate orbicular-ovate acute obscurely lobed serrate 

 ?|abrous or hairy above, panicles short dense densely villous and covered with 

 gland-tipped bail's, petals small narrowly linear-oblong, carpels numerous. 



Nkp.u:, Wallich. Kt:maon, alt. 



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«• tUiaceus, Kerh. Str. d; Winterh. 



1 snAA^f*^^ '^"^^ Western tempemto Himalayas. 



--8UO0 ft., Mndden, Strach. and IVmterb. 



,^'*^^'<'rybro<adly ovate cordate obscurely lobed leaves, white cottony tomentum, 



no above all the long glandular hairs of the young shoots and inflorescence best 

 stinguLsh this species, which has the other characfers of B. moluccanus. It may 

 "Keued to a dense-floweretl glandular E. fAiniculatxis, with broader leaves. 



, 14. R. birmanlcus, Hook.f.; eglandular, brauches petioles and leaves 



Wl^ J clothed with long spreading flexuous hairs, pricl-les very copious 



ooked, leaves acutely palinately 5-lobed crenate rugose above white with 



PPressetl down beneath, stipules and bmcts cut into long capillary lobes, 



owers large, calyx-lobes broad, petals orbicular, carpels excessively numerous. 



^'"MA ; in the Patkaye hills, E. of the Assam frontier, Grijfith. 

 mf^-^^ flexuous, hairs red brown when dry ; prickles stout recurved flattened 

 3 ''°.^'ng to petioles and nerves beneath, but not to the panicle, compressed. Leavci 

 dart I ™-'^'^^«=i' coriaceous, lobes extending nearly half way down, triangular, 

 U in* ^^® "^^^^ ^^y with pubescent nerves, dirty brownish white beneath ; petiole 

 Ai^:) "z*?^"^ = stipules A in., as broad as long across the almost capillary divisions, 

 bnl ^"^ ^^^ only) Darrow with short branches, and bracts as large as the stipules; 

 MioJ^y ^^o-e,d^y oToid, densely tomentose but not hairy like the peduncles and 

 the 01 ■ P"'2/x-iube hemispheric, lobes broad subacute, entire. Petals equalling 

 on J„ /^-^°bes, clawed. Sfa7nciis excessively numerous, in many series. Carpels 

 rS I • ^"^' glabrous, styles very slender with a few hairs on the stigma; 



P rtcle \nllous.— A very remarkable species. 



:M' ^- Treutlerl, Hook. f. ; more or less glandular, softly tomentose 

 spreading flexuous hairs, prickles slender nearly straight, leaves orbicular- 



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