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340 LI. ROSACEA, (J, D. Hooker.) [Buhus, 



serrate faintly pubescent on the nerves beneath ; dark brown when diy, midrib be- 

 neath often prickly. Ceylon.— Kurz {Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 1876, pt. ii. 307) refers 

 Roxburgh's B, rostxflorus to B. roscBfolii(s, Sm., but a reference to Hardwicks de- 

 scription cited by Roxburgh proves that this cannot be correct. 



36. XI. racexnosus, Boxh. Fl. Ind, ii. 519 ; branchlets petioles and 

 inflorescence clothed with glandular hairs, prickles straight or hooked, leaflets 

 5-7 ovate or orbicular-ovate acutely toothed, beneath usually densely white- 

 tomentose, stipules lanceolate, corymbs axillary and terminal, calyx prickly, 

 petals large red, carpels many villous. E.. lasiocarpus, Sm.y Var. f Miq. PI 

 Uxsicc. Hohenack, No. 1152. 



NiLGHiHi Mts., Adarrit Gardner , &c. Pulnby Mts., Wight. 



I cannot doubt this being an extreme form of i?. lasiocarpus, readily distinguish- 

 able by the copious glandular bristles and hairs, the usually densely tomentose 

 branches, corymbs, petioles, &c., and the prickly calyx and large petals; the leaflets 

 too are usually broader, very coriaceous, glabrous above or with sometimes copioiw 

 almost woolly hairs. In Hohenacker's specimens however the branchlets and 

 petioles are nearly glabrous, and in all the branches are beautifully pruinose. The 

 sepals are caudate and quite entire. Wight's Pulney mountain specimens have the 

 leaflets more membranous, almost glabrous beneath except along the nerves, like var. 

 snhglaber of B, lasiocarpa, I have seen no aut|ientic specimen of Roxburgh's plant 

 (which Kurz (Andaman Report) refers to lasiocarpus) and refer the above to it as 

 the only Peninsular species according with his description. 



37. &. follolosus. Dm Prodr. 256 {microphyllns, p. 234) ; eglandular, 

 branches petioles and inflorescence villous or densely tomentose, pnckles 

 straight or hooked, leaflets 3-7 small ovate or almost orbicular coarsely ^^^*^ 

 toothed or serrate white-tomentose beneath, flowers small in axillary^ branched 

 long peduncled corymbs, petals small red, carpels villous. — R. Roylei, Klotzsch 

 in Reise Pr. Waldem. Bot. 164, t. 6. R. parvifolius, Smith in Bees Cyclop, xxx. 

 Rvhas 21, not of Linn. ; Wall Cat. 736. 



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Central and Western temperate Himalayas. Nipal, Wallich; Chamba to KtJMAoy, 

 alt. 5-8000 ft., Thomson, &c. . ^ 



Except by its usually prostrate habit and much smaller size, I do not think tha 

 this is distinguishable from R. lasiocarpus. In Wallich's specimens the leaflets aw 

 ^ in. long, lateral orbicular cuneate, terminal lobed, are very pubescent above an 

 white beneath, but in Thomson's and others they become more ovate glabrous above 

 and almost silky beneath or even glabrous except along the nerves as in varieties o 

 lasiocarpus. The flowers are numerous, about ^ in. diam., with pink petals ^^^*|^^°^ 

 the calyx-lobes ; and the fruit is very small, white and villous. Don, misled by 

 specimen of B. biflorus sent under the same name by Wallich (and fastened on ta 

 same sheet in Herb. Linn. Soc.), describes the peduncles as 3-flowered. Maximovi 

 Diagn. x. 392, is certainly wrong in referring this to the B, parvifolitis, Linn. 



38. a. opulifolius, Bertol Misc. Bot. xxii. 16, t. 4; inflorescence 

 glandular-hairy and as veell as the stout branches and petioles densely son 

 tomentose, prickles few straight or hooked, leaflets 3-5 acute or ^^^^V^^^i 

 crenate-toothed coriaceous densely clothed beneath with white wool, late ^^ 

 elliptic terminal broader lobed, flowers in axillary and terminal subsessi^^ 

 abbreviated racemes, calyx with glandular bristles, petals small red, carpe 



many silky. 



KaU 



Khasia Mt.. at Moflong. alt. 6500 ft., Griffith: J. D. H. # T. T. Upper 

 Pani, alt. 4000 ft., C. B. Clarke. ^e 



A much more robust plant than R. lasiocarpus, with dense soft tomentum on ^^^ 

 young and even on last year s branches, the older of which are however g^*"*^^^ ^^J 

 pruinose (as in all these red-flowered species) ; prickles when straight ^**^ j^;^ 

 much flattened. Leaflets 1J^-2J in., softly downy or glabrous above, very ▼ 



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