334 ' LI. ROSACH^. (J. D. Hooker.) [Buhis, 



Stems annual from a stout -woody rhizome, short, erect. Leaflets 2-3 in., mem- 

 hranous, the lateral subsessile with cuneate bases and often a lobed outer margin; 

 petiole very slender, 3-5 in. ; stipules linear or linear-oblong. Flowers i in. diam., 

 1-4, shortly pedicelled on the top of a slender axillary peduncle.^ Calyx-tube short, 

 .glabrous, unarmed; lobes lanceolate, erect in fruit. Petals white, small, slender. 

 Fruit with few large scarlet drupes ; stone reticulated. 



22. It. nutans, Wall Cat 738 ; eglandular, unarmed, stem petioles 

 peduncles and calyx-tube clothed with flexuous hairs or bristles, leaflets 3 

 orbicular or subrhomboidal obscurely lobed acutely doubly toothed, calyx-lobes 

 large caudate-acuminate pinnatifid towards the tips, shorter thau the obovate 

 petals, carpels few glabrous. Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 523; Edgxvorth in Trans. 

 Linn. Sac. xx. 45. • 



Temperate Himalayas, from Garwhal and Kumaon, alt. 8-10,000 ft. . 



Stems &,^ thick as a sparrow quill, 1-2 ft. long from a woody rootstock ; hairs 

 nither stiff, red-brown when dry. Leaflets lJ-3 in. long and broad, membranous, 

 glabrous and dark-green above, hairy along the nerves beneath, base cuneate, 

 lateral shortly petiolulate ; petiole 2-4 in.; stipules large, broadly ovate or oblong, 

 entire or toothed. Flowers usually solitary, axillary, li in. diam.; peduncle stout. 

 Calyx-tube villous, lobes J-^ in. Fruit of few scarlet drupes ; stone smooth. 



Var. nepalensis; more slender, smaller in all its parts, leaflets ^li i^-> ^^®^^ 

 ^J in. diam., calyx lobes acuminate, not quite entire. — East Nepal, Tarabiir River, 

 alt. 9000 ft., J. D. H, 



23. It. Fockeanus, Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 1875, ii. 206; edan- 

 4ular, unarmed, stem petioles and peduncles pubescent, leaflets orbicular finely 

 toothed, nearly glabrous on both surfaces, flowers solitary, calyx-tube glabrous 

 or sparsely setose, lobes ovate-lanceolate quite entire. 



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Eastern temperate Himalaya; Sikkim on the Lachoong Eiver and Pbullalong 

 and Singalelah, alt. 10-14,000 ft. J.B. H., C. B. Clarke. 



Stems wholly procumbent, widely creeping, slender, very sparingly pubescen . 

 Leaflets |-1 in. diam., not shining above, and with very few hairs on the nerves be- 

 neath, lateral petiolulate ; petiole 1 in.; stipules J in., oblong, obtuse, toothed or 

 <]uite entire. F/ow^s on very short lateral shoots; peduncle exceeding the petiole. 

 Calyx I in. across the lobes, tube almost glabrous, lobes acuminate. Petals not seen. 

 Fruit a few red drupes ; stone quite smooth. — The small size, absence of long nai^» 

 opaque foliage and smooth stone of the drupes distinguish this at once from 

 nutans. 



24. R. Kookerl, Focke Batogr. in Abhandl. Naturiciss. Verein Bremeih 

 iv. 197 (1874) ; stem petioles and inflorescence pubescent with copious soi 

 hairs and glandular bristles, prickles few straight, leaflets 3 large rhomooia- 

 ovate or -orbicular caudate-acuminate lobulate and toothed, stipules pectinaM 

 flowers large solitary and in few-flowered axillary panicles, calyx hispid, lobes wi 

 filiform points, carpels very numerous. R. macrocarpus, Kurz MSS.y Clarfcc 

 Journ. Linn. Soc, xv. 141. 



Kastern temperate Himalaya; Sikkim, alfc. 7-9000 ft. T^nflets 



A low shrub, almost hispid with gland-tipped hairs, prickles slender. -^^ -V^^^ 

 petiolulate, often subequal, 2-5 in., bright green, bases acute or rounded, upper su 

 glabrous with pubescent nerves, under also glabrous with hairy nerves ; P^^^^ 

 2-3 in. ; stipules orbicular or broadly oblong, foliaceous, recurved, villous, t' ^^^^ 

 1^-2 in. diam., with often persistent foliaceous pectinate bracts. ^^^^^^ P^; ^^uch 

 bristly, lobes 1 in., triangular-ovate, oilen laciniate, spreading in fruit, ^^^j^p^u 

 smaller than the calyx, orbicular, greenish-white. Stamens very numerous. ^ r.j_ 

 in a dense cluster of 2-300 or more, and base of long filiform conniving styles, 



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