Eulus.'] 



LI. rosacej:. (J. D. Hooker.) 



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518 ; R. Wallichianus, Wt ^ Arn, Prodr. 298 ; Balz, # Gibs. Bomb. Flar. 89 ; R. ellip. 

 ticus. in part Wall. Cat. 740 ; R. affinis, Madden iVf 6^5?.— Himalaya and Western Ghats. 

 Vab. denudata ; shaggy hairs absent or very rare. R. rotundifolius, Wall, Cat, 

 730 in part. — Kumaon, Bhotan. 



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29, R. fruticosus, Linn.; DC. Prodr, ii. 560; vai\ discolor; eglandu- 

 mr, "branches robust and leaves beneath hoary with white stellate tomentum, 

 pnckles short scattered Looked, leaflets orbicular obovate or elliptic obtuse or 

 acute, stipules setaceous, flowers in dense thyrsoid terminal panicles, calyx-lobes 

 short acute reflexed in fruit, carpels quite glabrous. R. discolor, Weihe & Nees: 

 Bms. FL Onent ii. 695. 



.. Western temperate Himalaya, alt. 3-7000 ft. from Mubeee to Jamtj.— Distrib. 

 Afghanistan and westward to the Atlantic. 



&ew5 arched, obtusely angled, channelled; prickles stout. Leaflets sometimes 5 

 at the base of the stem, 1-2 in., coriaceous, sometimes abruptly acuminate ; petiole 

 f-1 m., flattened above; stipules subulate, velvety. Panicles 6-10 in.; branches 

 short, very stout, densely tomentose ; pedicels stout, short ; bracts often toothed or laci- 

 ^'fl^^' ^j^^^s^^ in. diam. Calyx-tuhe short, lobes woolly on both surfaces, sharply 

 ^flexed in fruit. Petals obovate, pink. Stamens very numerous, in many series. 

 ^''uit small, globose ; drupes many, fleshy, black ; receptacle deciduous ; stone 



30. R, Clarkel, Hook.f. ; herbaceous ?, eglandular, branches petioles and 

 Peduncles very slender faintly pubescent and with copious slender acicular 

 straight prickles, leaflets 3 orbicular obtuse and coarsely doubly crenate laxly 

 pubescent beneath, stipules oblonff ^een, peduncles l~3-flowered axillarv, calyx- 

 lobea lanceolate. 



Kashmir, at Sonamung, alt. 9250 ft., C. B, Clarke. 

 _;' A very slender small perhaps herbaceous species ; branches probably armed, soft, 

 Pfen, laxij cIqi-j^^j with spreading hairs; prickles numerous, very slender, quite 

 ■■^ight, not extending to the midribs. Leaflets 2-3 in. long, nearly as broad, dark 

 geen, rounded or cuneate at the base, petiolulate; petiole 1-3 in., slender; stipules 

 ^fsistent, obtuse or acute, entire or serrate, pubescent. Flowers drooping, ^ in. diam., 

 »^litary in the lower axils, corymbose in the upper ; bracts green, small, oblong, 

 ^^^e. Calyx'tMhQ not bristly, densely pubescent ; lobes narrow-lanceolate. Fndt 

 J lew glabrous drupes; stone pitted.— Of this very distinct species 1 have 



seen no 



31. R. 



T" ^^'^tennlfer, Hook.f. ; eglandul 



pubescent and with copious slender strai 

 '^T^^ate acuminate lobulate and acutely 

 ^th stipules linear-lanceolate acuminate 



pubescent 



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with long: slender tips, carpels very many 



f^SHMm; Sonamurg, alt. 8500 ft., C. B. Clarke. 



A much stouter plant than R Clarkei, similarly clothed with slender straight 



term 



stiff ^^^P^^'^^i-i in., green, persistent, quite entire. Peduncles often 2-3 in.. 

 cels'nA ^*^* the terminal continuing the branch and bearing a branched corymb ; p*'di- 

 Calp^ long and slendtT ; bracts filiform. Flotrers erect, |-1 in. across the sepals. 



.VJ not or hardly bristly, tomentose ; lobes pubescent on both surfaces ovate, sud- 



oS *'°°^'"act^ btofilTform't5roftrn\nr"iong"M "themselves. Petals orbicular-ob- 

 *«<*ptad *^"* equalllDg the limb of tho calyx. Carpels on a columnar pubescent 



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