Tas. 5023. 
RUBUS nutans. 
Shaggy-stemmed Raspberry. 
Nat. Ord. RosacE#.—IcosaNDRIA POLYGYNIA. 
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4678.) 
Rusus xzutans ; inermis basi fruticosus procumbens ramosus, ramis subherbaceis 
petiolis costa subtus pedunculis calycibusque patenti-crinitis, foliis ternatis 
glabris, foliolis late ovatis lobatis serratis, stipulis magnis ovatis concavis 
apice incisis, pedunculis unifloris, calycis lobis ovatis longe acuminatis, an- 
theris apice appendiculatis. 
Rusvs nutans. Wall. Cat. n. 138. Edgew. Pl. of N. W. Ind. in Linn. Trans. 
v. 20. p. 45. Walp. Ann. Bot. Syst. v. 1. p. 276. 
This very pretty decumbent species of Raspberry we find 
flourishing, planted in peat-earth in an open border, near a piece 
of water, at the residence of William Borrer, Esq., Henfield, (who 
received it from Mr. Lowe, of the Clapton Nursery,) covering 
the ground like ivy with its glossy perennial leaves, bearing pure 
white flowers, among the largest of the genus, and these white 
flowers are well relieved by the blood-coloured under side of 
the calyx. It is a native of Himalaya, from Garwhal and Ka- 
maon in the west to Sikkim in the east (Dr. Hooker), at eleva- 
tions of from 8,000 to 11,000 feet. How or when it was intro- 
duced, we have no information. The habit is a good deal that of 
our 2. saxatilis, herbaceous branches arising from the old trailing 
wood; but here are no aculei, and all the branches and _pe- 
tioles are densely covered with long, purple, crinite sete. In 
Western Himalaya the plant is called Jsha/; “ fructus sapore 
optimus.” (Hdgeworth.) 
Descr. A small, much-branching, quite unarmed shrub, two 
to three feet long, decumbent, the old wood glabrous, the younger 
shoots green, terete, ascending, bearing the leaves and flowers, 
and, as well as the petioles, principal nerves of the leaf be- 
DECEMBER Ist, 1857. 
