I 



£-^ 



^ H^ 





- r- 



'^^ius.J LI. ROSACEJE. (J. D. Hooker.) 335 



lous.^ Fruit globose, | in. diam. ; outer carpels dr}-, glabrous below villous above, 

 imbricating over the inner succulent carpels ; endocarp pitted ; receptacle broad, he- 

 mispherical, velvety, intruded at the base. 





## 



\* ^ 



Stems erect sannentose or climbing. 



] ^-5. B. nlveus, Wall Cat. 734 ; eglaiidular, bristles 0, branches and 

 petioles glabrous or tomentose, prickles recurved, leaflets 3 (rarely 5 ) coarsely 

 <)r finely double-toothed lateral obliquely ovate acuminate terminal elliptic ovate 

 grounded lobulate or lobed^ glabrous above, usually white with dense pubes- 

 cence beneath, stipules filiform, flowers in lateral and terminal few-flowered 

 tomentose corymbs, calvx-lobes acuminate or caudate, petals small obovate pink, 

 carpels many villous. R. gracilis, Roxh Cat. Hort. Beng. 39 ; FL Lid. ii. 619. 



' Temperate Himalaya, from Kashmir to Bhotan, at elevation of 6-10,000 ft. in 

 the vest and 5-11,500 ft. in the east. 



A large rambling bush, without bristles or gland-tipped hairs ; very variable in 

 * ^ts parts. Stem stout and branches often purple, young often quite glabrous and 

 glaucous or thickly or thinly tomentose ; prickles short, scattered, pale. Lmflcts- 

 "^m., entire or lobulate, toothed or crenate, acute acuminate or caudate, terminal 

 sometimea cordate, usually membranous and glabrous, alxjve sometimes (7?. concolor) 

 ^en and glabrous beneath also ; petiole slender, 1-2 in., with usually 1-2 prickles. 



wers \~\ in. diam., usually on slender unarmed pedicels, lower axillary often soli- 

 ^J^'^PP^r corymbosely arranged on a long peduncle, nodding ; bracts filiform. Calyx- 

 *«« short, flat- InL^u ^,r.,fr» io*,«^^i«*.« quite entire, \-\ in., tomentose on both 



Petals much smaller than the calyx-lobes. 



^aces, spreading or reflexed in fruit/ _. 



a»i^;w very numerous. Fruit globose, large or small, of few or many dry or fleshj 

 ^P^s; stone pitted.— Closely allied to R. lasiocarpus, I find it impossible to 

 jj^^Se satisfactorily the forms of this most puzzhng 



puzzhng plant; the following are 



_h ^ 



orat 1^' ^^^^^^ proper (WalL Cat, 734), softly pubescent, leaflets 2-3 in. membranous 



of ln'io"^u*^^^^® caudate-acuminate lobulate and very acutely deeply toothed, corymbs 



!r ^^orly pedicelled flowers ^ in. diam.— Nepal and all along the Himalaya. 



broad 



P.J^^*^^^^^^^^^^ Pi^irs on slender pedicels * in. diam., R. pedunculosus, -Don 

 ^'t 234 ; Wall, Cat 729.-Nepal Sikkim. ^ 



_ -. -604 ; kVall. Cat. 729.— Nepal, Sikkim. 



cenp/^'J"^*^^^^^^ ' ^^^^^y tomentose, flowers in short terminal racemes shortly pedi- 

 Wn»\ 4^^^* Kashmir, J^r^«mt?;«if, Falconer. Mnvree, FkminffC' fruit large yellovr 

 Trith \u -^^^^^i^' Clarke (fruit bright red) who also has a densely cottony subvar. 

 "1 abbreviated racemes (Kashmir, 8000 ft.). This resembles what a hybrid with 

 ^ilf^^^^ might he, 



^L^' ^^P^^ayrus ; leaflets A-1 in., sometimes 5, doubly scrrately-toothed membra- 

 £^^^?^^ beneath all over or on the nerves only, or quite glabrous. E. hypargyrus, 

 ^u^ ^^^^'J-inn. Soc. XX. 45. K. concolor, Boyle MSS. Approaches R. lasio- 



W/^' ^^^^^^^oni: slender, finely tomentose, leaflets broad membranous with very 

 gecrenatures. fniit 3in A\ayr^ ^f xr^r^ nnmftrnns oranfre fleshv almost elabrous 



dru 



V^ '-aauinir common at 7000 tl., Aitcfiison **iruit eacame. 

 broad '^^^^^^Pd', branches and petiole (6 in.) nearly glabrous, leaflets 4-6 in. 

 %]sl]L?a^^^^^ lobulate and crenate, flowers ^ in., fruit very small of 30-40 quite 

 ^ ^usdry drupes.— Sikkim, Lachen, alt. 9000 ft., J. D. H. 



?^aW ^"^'^^^^^ ' leaflets as variable as any of above forms, usually membranous 

 floweio^^^^^'^^^ys^ beneath acutely inciso-serrate or toothed or coarsely crenate, 

 J[Tiniao^^^^^2?^bose, sepals J-1 in. K. concolor, WalL Cat. 733.— From Kashmir to 



Var^' ^h^s passes into var. hypargyrus, 

 ^<^coi^l -^-^^owcn ; similar to var. concolor but carpels quite glabrous \ 



^coner 



I— N. W. India, 



*itli P ^^ ^be Kishenmmea west from Kashmir, Stewart .—This connects R. iiiveus 

 ,,^ cording to priority, Roxburgh's name of S. gracilis should be retained for this 





^''.'. ' 



J - X fr 



* I- 



^T". 



f -. 



