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286. ROSACEE (Harv.) ne [Rubus. 
Sub-Order 3. SANGUISORBEE. Calyz-tube turbinate or urceolate, contracted in 
the throat. Carpels 1-4, uniovulate, separate, concealed within the calyx-tube, 
which is hardened in fruit into a pseudo-pericarp. 
Flowers with petals, yellow. 
IV. Leucosidea. Calyzx-tube unarmed ; limb 10-parted in two rows, the 
outer lobes small. : 
Agrimonia. Calyx-tube armed with hooked bristles ; limb simple, 
5-parted. 
Flowers without petals. 
VI. Acena, Calyx-tube armed with hooked bristles. Suffruticose. 
VII. Alchemilla, Calyz-tube unarmed ; limb 8-parted, in two rows. Sta- 
mens 1-4. Herbaceous. 
VIII. Poterium. Calyx-tube unarmed ; limb 4-parted. Stamens 20-30. 
Herbaceous. 
IX. Cliffortia. Calyc-tube unarmed ; limb 3-parted. Flowers unisexual. 
Stamens 8-40. Stigma feathery. Shrubs. 
Sub-Order 4? NEURADEH. Flowers perfect. Calyc-tube concrete with the ovary. 
Petals 5, convolute. Stamens to, Carpels 5-10, concrete into a plurilocular 
capsule. Seeds solitary, pendulous. 
X. Grielum. Herbs with hoary, multi-partite leaves, and large, yellow 
flowers. ; 
I. RUBUS, L. 
Calyx-tube expanded, short ; limb 5-parted, without bracts, imbri- 
cate. Petals 5, crumpled, deciduous. Stamens indefinite, inserted on 
the calyx. Carpels indefinite, on a convex receptacle, uniovulate ; 
styles subterminal, filiform; stigmas simple. Fruit of many little 
drupes, aggregated on a dry conical receptacle, Radicle superior. Endl. 
Gen. 6360. DC. Prod. 2, Pp. 556. 
Shrubs, rarely herbs, mostly trailing and arching, and armed with sharp prickles, 
common in temperate latitudes, rare within the tropics and in the southern hemi- 
sphere. Leaves either simple, digitate, or impari-pinnate, Stipules adnate to the 
petiole. Flowers terminal or axillary, commonly panicled, rarely solitary. Name 
from the Celtic, rub, red ; the fruit of several (as the raspberry) is red. That of the 
common bramble or blackberry has a deep vinous tint. All have edible and some 
excellent fruits. 
% ANALYSIS OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN SPECIES. 
Leaves pinnate ; the uppermost often ternate ; fruit red or yellow tree 
Peduncles axillary and terminal, about one-flowered ... ... (1) roseefolius. 
Peduncles in a terminal raceme or panicle : 
Leaves beneath glabrous or pubescent, but not albo- 
Rene 5a; Gk a ks 2) pinnatus. 
Leaves beneath albo-tomentose :— a a 
__ Leafl. deeply inciso-lobulate ; fruit woolly ...... (3) Ludwigii. 
Leaves Aottc coat serrate ; fruits glabrous, golden... |. ||. (4) rigidus. 
Leaves digitate, of 5-3 leaflets ; fruit black or deep purple ... (5) fruticosus. 
(Sm. Pinel. t. 60); stem and petioles thinly pi- 
‘eaves pinnat oliolate, green, pubescent or pilose, gland- 
dotted beneath ; v -oF ovato-lanceolate, acute or acuminate, 
_ doubly serrate, the peduncles axill about one- 
flowered, shorter than the leaf ; pet og than ‘he Eee 
nated hairy calyx-segments; fruit rather dry, red, of very many small 
carpels on a cylindrical receptacle. DC. Prod. 2, 556.) BH. & Z.f 1701. 
Hook, Ic. Pl.t. 3.49. Bot. Mag, 1783 (with double flowers). 
