338 T'l- ROSACE-E. (J. D. Hooker.) [Buhus. 



prickles, leaflets 3 (rarely 5) iDroad-ovate coarsely acutely douUy crenate white . 

 beneath, cymes axillary few-flowered, flowers drooping, carpels pubescent. 



Western temperate Himalaya, Kunawur, in the Tibetan region, alt. 11-14,000 ft., 



71 Thomson, — Distrib. N. China. 



Branches stout, shining, pale or dark yello-wish ; purple glandular hairs few, scat- 

 tered ; prickles short, flattened, straighter on the petioles and inflorescence. Leaflets- 

 2-4 in., glabrous above, terminal broad-ovate or orbicular, cordate ; lateral sessile, 

 smaller ; petiole 1-3 in., stout, pale, coloured like the stem ; stipules setaceous, glan- 

 dular. Flowers ^ in. diam., solitary in the lower axils, 2-4 in peduncled cymes in 

 the upper. Calyx pubescent and bristly ; lobes ovate-lanceolate, finely acuminate, 

 erect in fruit. Petals smaller than the calyx, orbicular-oblong, Fruit enclosed m 

 the calyx, globose, red, of many (about 20) tomentose drupes situated on a columnar 

 pubescent receptacle ; endocarp pitted. Very near R. colchicuSy Herb. Stev., from the 

 Caucasus, if not a few-flowered variety of that plant. Jaeschke sends 5-foliolate 

 leaves of apparently this species from Lahul. 



Var. suhinermis, more slender and lax with theprickles reduced almost to bristles. 

 — Kishtwar, Thomson ; Kashmir, Falconer, alt. 9250 ft., C. B. Clarke ; common in 

 water channels at 8-10,000 ft., J to Ai€50».— Clearly a lax state of the Tibetan drier 

 climate prickly plant. ' ' 



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33. R. lucens, Focke Batogr. in Ahhandl Naturwiss. Verein, Bremen, iv. 

 199 (1874) ; eglandular, almost glabrous, prickles scattered short hooked, leat- 

 lets 3 ovate elliptic orbicular or ovate-lanceolate caudate-acuminate serrate 

 shining above, stipules linear, racemes axillary and terminal long slender, carpels 

 few hirsute. R. Isevigatus, Wall. Cat. 1280. 



Khasia Mts., alt. 3-4000 ft., Simons, &c. ; Assam, Jenkins ; Mishmi Half; ^ 



Griffith, ^ ' fh- 



Stem very stout, climbing lofty trees; branches angled, grooved, quite smootji, 

 prickles very short. Leaflets 4-5 in., brown when dry, coriaceous, serratures simple? 

 acute, petiolules short and nerves beneath puberulous ; petiole 2-6 in., P^^^^^^ ^*th^^ 

 or few ; stipules almost setaceous. Panicles 6-12 in., lower sometimes crowded in tne 

 leaf-axils; terminal slender, pubescent; bracts subulate. Flowers small, Jin.diainM 

 in fascicles or short corymbs; pedicels slender. Calyx densely hoary ; tube very 

 short ; lobes oblong, obtuse or apiculate, erect in fruit. Petals equalling the sepals, 

 pink or white, obovate, clawed. Stamens 20-30, in one series. Fruit enclosed in 

 the calyx ; drupes 6-8, sweet; stone rugose ; receptacle low, pubescent 



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Sect. IV. Shrubs. Leaves pinuately 5-7-foliolate, upper (or all in 37. 



foliolosus) 



34. a. biflorus, Hatn. ; Stnith in Rees Cyclop, xxx. Rvhus 9; eglandular. 

 prickles strong hooked, leaflets 3 or 5 ovate lotulate doubly toothed white an 

 tomentose beneath, stipules linear-lanceolate, flowers 1-3 together on axilia^ 

 slender peduncles drooping, calyx-lobes broad-ovate acuminate, carpels num 

 rous woolly above. Wall. Cat 735 ; DC. Prodr. ii. 658 ; Bot. Mag. t. 4b7». 



Temperate Himalaya; from Sirmobk, alt. 7-9000 ft., to Sikkim, alt. 8000 •» 

 and Bhotan. , ..tj 



A strong rambling shrub ; stems and branches quite glabrous,^ white ^^ 

 glaucous bloom ; prickles very strong and much recurved. Leaves chiefly on 

 lateral branches; upper sometimes 1-foliolate and 3 -lobed ; leaflets 1-^2 '°'' ^^tose 

 more, acutely toothed or serrate, pnbescent or hairy above, densely ^f^^ ^ 

 beneath ; petiole slender, 1-2 in, prickly, pubescent ; stipules | in. -P^^i^'^.'^^^Xni. 

 in., unarmed or prickly, usually glabrous ; bracts subulate. Flowers *-* i°- . ^^ 

 Calyx pubescent on both surfaces or'glabrate outside; lobes broad, ^"^^^^tjjte. 

 spreading in fruit. Petals equalling or exceeding the calyx, orbicular, J 



Stamens numerous. Fruit globose, f 



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