332 LI. ROSACE-as- (J. D, Hooker.) IBubus. 



o^ordate witli 5-7 shallow crenate lo^bes, stipules leafy pectinate, flowers large 



solitary cliiste 

 small, carpels 

 Ind, Or. 



/ 



Hooh f. 



Eastern temperate Himalaya; Sikkim, alt. 7-10,000 ft., Br. TreiUUr, 

 A large leafy erect bush, with often glandular bristles mixed with the soft 

 flexuous hairs that cover all parts more or less ; prickles passing into bristles, som^ 

 times slightly decurved. Leaves 2-6 in. diam., membranous, green, with scattered 

 hairs above ; lobes shallow, rounded or acute, crenatures acute ; petiole short or long 

 and slender, sometimes 3 in. ; stipules J in., almost orbicular in outline, concave, 

 green. Flowers f-1 in. diam., shortly pedicelled; bracts sometimes reduced to 

 narrow segments. Ccdyx-hihe hemispheric, villous and often bristly ; lobes large, often 

 leafy and laciniate, or pectinately pinnatifid. Fetals nearly orbicular, much smaller 

 than the calyx, white or pink. Stamens xery nurtiBToxiii. Carpels aboiit 100, sty^ 

 very slender, stigma hairy. — This and B. birmanicus belong to the group with n. 

 HooJceriy all having very numerous carpels and dry fruits. 



Series II. Leaves digitately or pedately 3-5-foliolate. 

 * Leaves glahroxis or nearly so beneath. 



16. R. fragrarioides, Bertohni Miscell xxii. IG, t. 6 ; herbaceous; un- 

 anned, stem petioles and peduncles faintly pubescent, leaflets 3 or 5 obovate or 

 orbicular with a cuneate base lobulate quite glabrous, lobules with acute siiius 

 and coarse teeth, calj^-tube glabrous, lobes ovate-lanceolate quite entire. 



Eastern Temperate Himalaya in swamps; Sikkim, alt, 10-13,000 it, J- ^' ^" 

 C. B. aarke. 



A very small species ; stem cliiefly subterranean, slender, woody, sending up ^fj^ 

 short floriferous branches bearing one or two pedately 3-5-foliolate leaves. Leap 

 membranous, contracted into the 1-3 in. very slender petiole ; stipules % i°'» 

 broadly ovate, obtuse, toothed or quite entire. Flowers f in. diam., white, P^^^^ ® 

 J-1 in. slender. Calyx-tnhe glabrous ; lobes acuminate, tips slender, Pcilo/^ obovate, 

 acute. Carpels about 5, not seen ripe.— Very near to B. trijlorus, Kicharas. P- 

 japo7iica of Japan ; see Maximovicz Diagnoses, Dec. x. 375. 



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stipi 

 lx)th 

 minal 



. alpestrlB, Blame, Bijd. 1108; erect, nearly glabrous, ^^^^ ft 

 rlandular, prickles small scattered, leaflets 3-5 elliptic naiTowea a 



Miquelj Fl Ind. Bat. i, part 1, 378. RI pentagonus, Wall Cat. 731. 



ft, — DiSTRiB. Java. 



SiKKiM" 



— DiSTRiB. Java. , j^.. 



A straggling shrub, with the young parts pubescent; stem stout, cWQ ' 

 prickles few, short, slightly curved. Leaflets 2-4 in., membranous, ■'^"^,®®^^^ Aj^ies 

 minal the largest, lateral often oblique ; nerves 7-10 pair, slender, *^^^^^',^°"^!nied: 

 faintly pubescent beneath ; petiole 1-2 in., sometimes pubescent, usually ^^^jjl 



stipules small, membranous, usually glandular. Flowers ^^l i"* ^^^^'^ ^^"f ^ular. 

 tary, rarely 3-nate ; peduncles armed or not, more or less pubescent and glan ^ .^• 



Calyx armed, rarely unarmed, densely pubescent or glabrate; lobes ^^^^^^^r, 

 pubescent in the outer margins and within, suberect in fruit. Fetals white, ^l^\ J 

 shorter than the calyx. Stamens l-seriate. Fruit globose; drupes 12^1<^. 

 glabrous, stone rugose. 



* 



18, R. Thomsoni, Focke Batogr. in Ahhandl. Katuriciss. V^f^ 

 Bremen iv. 198 ; prostrate, slender, eglandiilar, prickles few very ^^^^'l ..^j^ 

 ^ broad-ovate acuminate two latftral mno\\ thp smallpaf crenate or serrate 



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