336 LI. ROSACEA. (J. D. Hooker.) IRuhus, 



plant, but I am disinclined to replace so excellent, well known and suggestive a one 

 as niveus for another that is in no way distinctive of the species. 





26. TL. macilentus, Camb, inJacquem. Voy. -Bo^.49,t.60; nearly glabrous, 

 eglandular, prickles stout flattened straight or hooked, leaflets 3 ovate or ovate* 

 lanceolate obtuse acute or acuminate doubly-crenate-toothed, stipules setaceous, 

 peduncles axillary and subterminal 1-3-flowered, carpels many glabrous. R 

 uncatus, Wall, Cat, 750. E. asper, Hb. Royle, 



Temperate Himalaya ; from Hazara, alt. 4-6000 ft., Steivart, and Kishtwab, alt^ 

 5-9000 ft. to SiKKiM and Bhotan, alt. 6-9000 ft. 



Stems trailing, stout, red-brown, obtusely angled, shining ; prickles much flat'- 

 tened, ^-\ in. Leaflets i -2 in., rigidly coriaceous, brown when dry, glabrous on both 

 surfaces, terminal usually ovate-lanceolate long-acuminate, lateral sessile, smaller, 

 sometimes orbicular ; midrib beneath with hooked prickles ; petiole stiff, sometimes 

 pubescent along the grooved upper surface. Flowers J in. diam. ; peduncles ^-J m.^ 

 pubescent, rarely 2-3-flowered. Cali/x silky outside, tomentose within; lobes cau- 

 date, erect in fruit. Petals orbicular-obovate, clawed, exceeding the sepals, white. 

 Fruit globose, enclosed in the calyx ; drupes 20-30, yellow or red, glabrous, seated on 

 a columnar pubescent receptacle ; stone rugged. 



I'b^^ 27. R. slkkimensls, Hook.f. ; glandular-hairy and covered with long 



straight prickles, leaflets 3 ovate acuminate lobulate and coarsely crenate glan- 

 dular above nearly glabrous beneath, stipules linear, peduncles axillary l-^» 

 flowered, calyx glandular and hispid, lobes caudate, carpels numerous glabrous. 



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Subalpine Sikkim Himalaya; Lachen, alt. 12-13,000 ft., J. D, H. 



A small shrub, dark brown when dry ; stems stout ; gland-tipped hairs long 

 spreading, half as long as the quite-straight shining prickles. Leaflets 1-2 m., ter- 

 minal, sometimes deltoid-ovate, base rounded or subcordate, lateral subsessile, smaller^ 

 narrower ; petiole 1-3 in., very slender, pubescent ; stipules J in. Peduncles i-1 i^-* 



pubescent glandular and bristly as is the calyx. Flowers ^ in. diam., inclme 



lyx'lobes lanceolate, pubescent on both surfaces. Petals red-purple. — This in many 

 respects resembles i?. pungens, Camb., and R. korridulus, H. f. 



28. XI. ellipticus, Smith in Bees Cyclop, xxx, Itubm 16 ; shaggy "^ 

 spreading flexuous hairs, prickles scattered stout hooked, leaflets 3 orbicular obo- 

 vate or elliptic obtuse or abruptly acute toothed pale and pubescent beneatu, 

 panicles axillary and terminal dense-flowered, calyx-lobes mucronate or acumi- 

 nate, carpels silkv. Da Prodr, ii. 563; Wall Cat. 740 in part. R. rotundi- 

 folius, WalL Cat. 730. R. Gowry-phul, Roxb. Hort. Bmg. 39. R. Gowreephui, 

 Roxb. FL IndAl 517; W.^- A. Prodr. 298-, Wight Ic. t. 230. R. ^"^r 

 Sam. in Don, Prodr, 234; Iira7id. For. Flor. 197 ; Kurz, For. Fl&i'. Bnt. B^rn. 

 i. 438. R. sessilifolius, Miq. PL Ind. Or. Hohmack, 438a, 1153. ? R. paniculatus, 

 Moon. Cat. CeyL PL 



Temperate and subtropical Himalaya, from Sirmur, alt. 2-7000 ft. to SikkiM, alt. 

 4-7000 ft. and Bhotan. Khasia Mts., alt. 4-5000 ft. BiusiA. Western Ghats iro 

 Canara southwards. Ceyxon, central province, alt. 4-7000 ft.— Distrib. ^^"^"^. 



A tall suberect bush; branches stout, spreading and recurved, ob^^urely a^S ^^^ 

 hairs red-brown, often very dense, covering a softer down with occasional glan^^^ 

 hairs ; prickles stout, hardly compressed. Jjcaflets 2-4 in., coriaceous, darfc ^ 

 above, rarely glabrous beneath ; petiole 1-3 in.; stipules subulate. -^^."^^^ ^/J' 

 many-flowered, pedicels short; bracts setaceous. Flowers ^-^ in. ^^^^' jj^u- 

 densely pubescent and bristly or not ; lobes ovate, acute acuminate or obtuse ^° ^^ 

 cronate, erect in' fruit. Petals obovate, larger than the calyx, white. ^\^^^y^ 



. Fruit globose, exposed; drupes on a cylindric hairy receptacle, -'_ 



1 -seriate, 



golden yellow, succulent; stone rugose. ,-, r^A \\ 



Vae. hirta ; leaflets green beneath. R. hirtus, Roxb. HorL Beiig. 38 : i'*- ^'^^' 



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