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LI. ROSACEA. (J. D. Hooker.) 



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'35. R. lasiocarpus, Smith in Bees Cycl(yp, xxx. Bvhm 6; eglandular, 

 Tinckles scattered stout straight or hooked^ branches glabrous very glaucous, 

 leaflets 6-9 ovate elliptic or ovate-lanceolate acutely toothed or serrate, beneath 

 ribbed and usually hoary with white tomentum, terminal alone lobulate, stipules 

 subulate, corymbs small axillary and terminal tomentose, petals small red, 

 carpels many tomentose. BC. Pi'odr. ii. 558.- Wight ^ Am. Ib'odr. 299; 

 Wight Ic. t. 232 ; Groh. Cat Bomb. PL 64 ; Dalz. 8^ Gibs. Bomb. Flor. 89 ; 

 Kurz For, Flor. Brit Burm. i. 439. R. distans, Don Prodr. 256 (pinnatus 234). 

 R. Horsfieldii, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. i. part 1, 375. R. altescens, Boxb. Hort 

 Beng. 39 ; Flor. Ind. ii. 519. R. rosseflorus, Boxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 519. R. ro- 

 timdifolius, Boyle HI. 203 (name only), R. mysorensis, Heyne in Both Nov. 

 g«i. Sf Sp. 235. R. indicus, Heyne MSS. ? R. parvifolius, Moon Cat Ceyl 

 PI' R. furfuraceus, Wall. Cat. 739. R. bijugus, Focke Batogr. in AbhandL 

 Naturwiss. Verein, Bremen, iv. 200 (1874). 



Temperate Himalaya, from Murrek and Kashmir, alt. 5-8000 ft. (ascending 

 to 150011, in Kumaon), to Sikkim, alt. 4-10,000 ft. Burma. Westebn Penixst'ta 

 on the higher Ghats from Canara southwards. Ceylon, central province, alt. 

 4-7000 ft.— BisTRiB. Java. 



A large rambling very variable plant ; branches oylindric, -with coloured pruinose 

 Dark, the very young only tomentose; prickles compressed, variable in size and 

 «nPvature, extending to the petioles and rachis, but not or rarely to the inflorescence. 

 ^dves 3-10 in.; leaflets 1-3 in., rather coriaceous, opaque, glabrous or silky above, 

 ^■Imost plaited by the strong straight nerves, which are very prominent beneath, some- 

 times very acute, often doubly toothed and mucronate, terminal usually broad-ovate, 

 oreven orbicular, rounded acute or cordate at the base; lateral sessile, rarely ovate or 

 orbicular; petiole stout, grooved above, glabrous and shining or tomentose ; stipules 

 ?^-, linear-subulate. Corymbs axilhiry and terminal, simple or subpanicled, densely 

 Wttentose or villous, or merelv nuberulous, on short or long (1-2 in.) peduncles^. 



bracts setaceous or filiform. Flowers 3-| 

 lobes ovate or ovate-lanceolate, acute 



. ^c*..., o^,^oci^,x.guA ouucic-.i.i" fruit; laciniate and much lengthened 



1 L?^"*^^^^ specimens. Petals deep pink, orbicular or broadly obovate, rarely 



«ceedmgthe calyx. Fruit J-^ in. diara., globose, hoary; drupes numerous, dry, or 



^^y and then red or orange ; stone pitted ; receptacle columnar, villous. 



, .-^^is as difficult to define the varieties of this Bubus as it is those of B. niveus, to 



foil -^^^^^^ in a degree analogous, and it is also difficult to separate the three 



lowing species from it by constant definable characters. 

 J '*?• f^'^furaceus ; a large form, leaflets narrow 1-2^ in. grey with very fine 

 iT?, ^e^eath, corymbs paniculate, terminal large much branched. K. furfuraceus, 

 "''^«- C'a^. 739, Ava. ^ ' 



e_/^^-P«M^i/?orw5, a large very common Himalayan form, glabrous and shining 

 cept the white undersurface of the leaves, with corymbs of many crowded small pu- 

 E "?r^^"^«- R- PHUciflorus, Wall Cat 727 ; Lindl. in Bot Reg. t. 854. R longi- 

 n«h n'^^"- ^SS. K. Ischelus, Herb. Ham. E. distans, Don Prodr. 256 (pin- 

 natus, 234). 



P ^AR. micranthus; much smaller in all its parts, leaves almost glaucous beneath. 



• ^^'cranthus, Don Prodr. 235. Nipal, WalUch. ^ ^ .^ ^^ 



giltJ^- *^^'^'^W5; leafietfi 2-3 in. coarsely serrate pale green membranous beautitul y 

 Ian/ T ^^^ surfaces paler but not white beneath, coiymbs many-flowered, sepals 

 ^nceolate. Kishtwar, Thomson. 



^AR. membranaceus ; leaflets 2-3 in. coarsely crenate-toothed very membranous 

 V glabrous above faintly downy beneath, corymb terminal compound. Ku- 



^^ vi viiiuus, ur merely puueruious, 

 in ^^^y'^^'^^red ; pedicels long or short ; br 

 ; ^ij*ni Calyx densely woolly ; tube small ; 



^» S^mcA. 4' Winterb. (18). Sikkim, J. D. H. ^ , . . 



BeDftU ; '■^^'^^^^ws ; quite glabrous except the branches of the corymbs and margins of 



i : ^^M?^ ^-U i«- inciso-serrate membranous, dark brown when d^. flowers 



y\m axillary coi^mbs, sepals with filiform points.-Sikkim, alt, 9-1 0,000 ft., J. D. K 



• Jt^^'subglaber, Thwaites Enum. 101: leaflets 1-U 



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