374 XLVIII, ROSACEZ (OLIVER). [ Pygeum. 
margin softly hairy. Style short. Fruit dry, depressed-globose or trans- 
versely ellipsoidal, 4-5 lines in diameter. 
Upper Guinea. Camaroons mountain, 7000-7500 ft., Mann! 3 
Lower Guinea. Pungo Andongo, Angola, 2400-3800 ft., Dr. Welwitsch! 
Mozamb. Distr. Foot of Mount Tschiradzura, 3000 ft., and near Mungazi (leaves 
nearly entire), Dr. Kirk! 
5. RUBUS, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. i. 616. 
Calyx-tube shallow short, lobes 5, persistent. Petals 5 or 0. Sta- 
mens indefinite, perigynous. Carpels indefinite, inserted upon a convex 
receptacle; “ovules geminate, collateral, pendulous”; style subter- 
minal. Achenes drupaceous or dry, 1-seeded ; the receptacle usually be- 
coming succulent.—Shrubs (or herbs) usually scrambling and aculeate. 
Leaves 3—5-foliolate, leaflets ternate or imparipinnate in Tropical African 
species. Stipules shortly adnate to the petiole, then narrow-linear. 
Flowers paniculate. 
A large genus, generally diffused through both hemispheres, but most numerous in 
perplexing varietal or specific forms in the North temperate zone. 
Leaves pinnate. Petals 0 or shorter than calyx. 
Leaflets glabrate or pubescent beneath . . . . . ... ~~. 1. RB. pinnatus. 
Leaflets hoary-tomentose beneath ee er 
Leaves (at least on flowering branches) 3-foliolate, tomentose beneath. 
Petals shorter than calyx. Stem tomentose, glands 0 or but few 
BDOVO=e 5 Sn ee ee 
Petals twice as long as calyx. Stem tomentose and densely 
glandular-pilose SO ee ss : 
3. RB. rigidus ? 
4. R. Steudneri. 
1. R. pinnatus, Willd. ; DC. Prod. ii. 556. A loosely scrambling 
or scandent shrub, sometimes reaching 10-15 ft.; extremities finely 
and thinly appressed-tomentose puberulous or eglabrate, aculeate, with- 
out sete or spreading hairs, usually furrowed or somewhat angular ; 
prickles decurved. Leaves pinnate excepting immediately under the 
inflorescence ; lateral leaflets 2-jugate from ovate-lanceolate to ovate, 
acute or acuminate, rounded at the base, unequally serrate, on petio- 
lules of }—} in.; terminal leatlet but little larger or equalling the lower 
ones, all glabrous or glabrescent above, glabrate or minutely pubescent, 
strongly nerved and often aculeate on the midrib beneath. Panicle 
terminal, usually leafless, rather lax, more or less hoary-tomentose. 
Calyx-lobes linear-lanceolate, acuminate. Petals wanting or scarcely 
exceeding the thinly silky or at length glabrous carpels. Achenes dry 
or nearly so, sculptured. 
Upper Guinea. Camaroons mountain, above 4000 ft., Mann! Clarence Peak, 
Fernando Po, and St. Thomas, 5000 ft. Mann! 
Lower Guinea. Golungo Alto, Angola, 2400 ft., Dr. Welwitsch! 
The same plant occurs in St. Helena and at the Cape. 
2, R. apetalus, Poir.; DC. Prod. ii. 557. Stem softly pilose- 
tomentose or -pubescent, hairs spreading, aculeate, sete 0, prickles 
sharply decurved. Leaves pinnate, petioles hairy and aculeate as the 
stem ; lateral leaflets 2-jugate, all ovate or ovate-elliptical acuminate, 
