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^^',: SiKi^M Himalaya, alt. 10,000-12,000 ft. ; Lachen, J: i>/Zr^ 

 ^i^ A shrub, 4 ft. high, with erect twigs, polygamo-dioecious. Leaves 3-5-lobed, 1 by 

 1| in., lobes crenate-serrate. Racemes pubescent, erect in fruit, short. Flowers sub- 

 sessile, chestnut. Calyx-tuhc of the flower subcampanulate. — Very near B, glacmlc ; 

 the leaves are in general outline subreniform while those of B, glaciate usually hare 

 the: jjiiddle lobe elongate and acuminate. p' , .; ' > ■ 



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6. R. nigrum, Linn.) DC. Prot??-. iii. 481 ; branches and leaves nearly 

 glabrous, racemes pubescent long pendulous, bracts ^ti-a "^- ^^^o narrow, berrv 

 »lack. Eng. Bot. t. 1291 ; H. f. %■ T. in Journ. Linn. Soc. ii. 88 ; Boiss. it 

 Orieiii. ii. 815 ; Maxim, in Bull. Acad. Petersb., Mel. Biol. ix. 222 ; Brand. 

 Fm-.Fl. 215. 



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Temperate Western Himalaya from Kuxawae to Kashmir, alt. 7000-12,000 ft., 

 ^:Thoinson. — Distrib. North Europe and North Asia. 



*'*^ ' Leaves in the. Kashmir fiira-mnlfis nnt. pIu-a'vs miTictate benoath. Bacemes long, 



Flowers green. 



7. R. G-riffithli, H.f. iSf T. in Journ. Linn. Soc. ii. 88; leaves pubescent 



on the nerves beneath, vanf^nips f\~(\ in Inner Upvnnse iiendent very lax, Israels 



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Eastern Himalaya ; Ehotan, alt. ToOOft., GriffiiL Sikkim, alt. 10,000-13,000 ft., 



., 5-lobed ; lobes acuminate or caudate, 

 young fruit broadly campauulate. 



i^ An erect shrub 8 ft. high. Leaves 2-3 in., 

 '^W serrate. Calyx-tnhc in flower and in y 



V^-Tf. 



rubrum, Linn, x DC. Trodr. iii. 481 ; brancUets glabrous, raceme: 



te pendulous, l)racts'^-| in. long lower often broad or obovate, 

 - 'P.^n Tinf + 19«a. TT -F R- r. in Joum, Linn. Soc. ii. 8U ; 



pubescent 



Wy red smooth; 2:wi7.5o^.t. 1289': //./ 



fi^.FL Chient ii. 816 ; Maxtm: in Bull. Accid. Peter sh., Mel Biol ix. 23r,; 



^'•a^irf. Jbr. J7. 215. E. Himalayense, 7>c^e. m Jacq. Toy. Bot t. 77 {not of 



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^ ^estern Himalaya, from Kuaiaon to Kashmir, alt. 8000-12,000 ft., frequent; 

 noyk, T. Thomson, &c.— Distrib. Alpine Europe, Caucasus, Altai. . 



fU'cs long-petioled, petioles often ciliato at the base, ovate -cordate, 3-o-lobct! ; 



acute, crenate-serrate; upper surface glabrous or with scattered hairs, lower 

 Mabrous or pubescent. Pedicels short. Calyx-lohcs short, obtuse. Flowtrs largo. 



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 jobes 



«K.l^^-' ^^^ies black, leaves glabrous or pubescent beneath, Pedicels very 

 'ff^' Kashmir, nit DoOO ft, ; Levinge. Karakorum, alt. 11,500 ft., C. B. Clarke. 

 "^ul; Jacsckke in Brand. For. FL 215. 



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Ordek LIII. CRASSUl-ACES: 



culH^^^^' often with a woody perennial rootitock, or uuder-sliru 

 flni r: ^^f^^'os alternate or opposite, usually simple but divided i 



^ \K(dani/ioe , 



slirubs; usually sue- 

 in Bn/op/ti/lltnn 



Flowers often cymose, sometimes spicate-race- 



stipules 0. ^.^..w^ ., , , , -, ,.^ 



in CnfAiU.7..^ ;«„i„+^ ;„ 7?..,/^.»^«//m»m. TP<riilar, hermaphrodite 



Petals as many as the 



Ig^. ^— ^«iy.t. r*— ti-uu mure liwcij ^ v_/ **>.., ** , i 



^'8; ^free' or connate, ^/rrmm^ hypog^Tious or upon the petals, as many or 



r„v;,- '"^"y a^ tbe petals. „.., . . ^ -1 .., V !■ 



'^5^tMa and in a few Sedwm) with a hypog}nous gland or scale at tbc base of 



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