Tab. 6970. 



RUBUS EOSaiFOLICS. 

 Native of the Himalaya, Burma, and Java. 



Nat. Ord. Eosace.2E. — Tribe Rub&X. 

 Genus Ecbus, Linn. ; (Benth. et Hook.f. Gen. PL vol. i. p. 616.) 



Rubus rosafolius ; erectus, ramosus, aculeis sparsis parvis recurvis, rami's gracilibns 

 petiolisque patentim pilosis birsutis pubescentibus glabratisve interdum glandu- 

 losis, foliis pinnatis, foliolis 3-7-jugis ovato-lanceolatis acutis v. acuminatis 

 duplicato- inciso-serratis utrinque viridibus, stipulis subulatis v. linearibus, 

 floribus solitariis v. in paniculas paucifloras dispositis gracile pedicellatis, 

 sepalis caudato-acuminatis petala orbicularia v. subrhombea alba longioribus, 

 ovariis perplurimis in pistillum cylindraceum densissione congestis dorso pauci- 

 glandulosis ceterum glabris, stylo gracili, fructu oblongo-cylindraceo, drupis 

 perplurimis parvis globosis glabris rubris. 



E. rossefolius, Smith Ic. Ined. fasc. iii. p. 60, t. 60; DC. Prodr. vol. ii. p. 556; 

 Plume Pidrag. p. 1107 ; Miguel Fl. Ind. Pat. vol. i. pt. i. p. 375 ; Kurz 

 Fl. Brit. Purm. vol. i. p. 439 ; HooJc. Ic. PI. t. 349 ; Hook. f. Fl. Prit. Ind. 

 vol. ii. p. 341 ; Paker FL Maurit. 96 ; Wall. Cat. No. 728. 



B. rosaefolius /3, coronarius, Sims Pot. Mag. t. 1733. 



R. rosa;florus, Eoxb. FL Ind. vol. ii. p. 519. 



E, pinnatus, Willd. Sjp. PL vol. ii. p. 1081; DC. I. c. ; Ait. Hurt. Hew, vol. iii. 

 p. 270. 



E. javanicus, Plume, Bidrag. p. 1108. 



E. asper, Don Prodr. FL Nep. p. 234; Wall. Cat. No. 741 ; DC. I. c. 558. 



E. pungens, Camhess. in Jacguem. Voy. Pot. p. 48, t. 59. 



E. sikkimensis, Otto Eunze mss. 



E. paniculatus, Clarke in Journ. Linn. Soc. vol. xv. p. 140 {not of Smith.) 



E. sorbifolius, Maxim. Diagn. vol. x. p. 390 (a very bispidly hirsute state.) 



E. Commersonii, Poir. Encyclop. vol. vi. p. 240. 



E. sinensis, Hort. 



It is somewhat singular that a plant so widely distributed, 

 so long and well known botanically, rejoicing in eleven 

 specific names, and well adapted for ornamenting a con- 

 servatory, should be seldom met with under cultivation. 

 Its native country was long unknown. It was first de- 

 scribed, in 1791, by Sir J. E. Smith, and figured in his 

 " Icones Ineditse " from specimens procured by Commerson 

 in the Mauritius ; where, according to Baker (Fl. Maurit.), 

 it was introduced from the Malay Islands by Commerson 

 about 1780. Willdenow described it in 1 799 as R. pinnatus, 

 dec. 1st, 18S7. 



