Rubus] # ROSACEA (Harv.) - 287 
Has. Sides of Table Mountain, facing the town, Z. ¢ Z./ kc. (Herb, Sd. D. Hk.,) 
A suberect bush, more or less covered with s ing, soft hairs and sessile resi- 
nous glands. Leaves 6-7 inches long, the leaf-pairs 1-1} inch asunder ; leaflets 13-2 
inches long, 1 inch wide. Peduneles 2 or 3 inches long, either axillary or ending 
short branchlets. Prickles small, straight, pale. Fruit shaped like the raspberry, 
but not very succulent, and raised on a short gynophore; carpels extremely nume- 
rous. ae 
2. R. pinnatus (Willd. Sp. 2,p. 1081); branches, panicle and pe- 
ticles thinly villoso-tomentose, leaves pinnate, 5—9 foliolate, green, and 
glabrous or nearly so on both surfaces ; leaflets very shortly petiolate, 
ovate, acute, penninerved beneath, doubly and unequally serrate, the 
serratures acuminate; the terminal leaflet largest; panicle terminal, 
many flowered; petals shorter than the taper-pointed, tomentose calyx- 
lobes ; fruit glabrous, golden, of few carpels. Cham. & Schl. in Linn. 2, 
p. 19. E. § Z.1 1705, and R. Pappet, E. & Z.! 1706. 
Has. Hanglip, Mundt. Table Mountain sides ; also Krakakamma and Adow, 
Uit., and on the Kat River, Z. GZ! Zuureberg Forest, A. Wyley/ (Herb. Sd., D-.) 
Stems roundish or slightly angular, the younger ones covered with cobwebby hairs, N q 
the older often-naked. Leaves 3-6 inches long ; leaflets 1-3 inches long, 4-2 inches : Bae (A 
wide, occasionally slightly hairy beneath, especially on the nerves ; the uppermost 
leaves 3-foliolate. Calyx of the fruit erect or spreading, not reflexed. I cannot dis- — 
Sages R. Pappei from ordinary “ pinnatus,” taking Cham. & Schl.’s description as 
my guide, 3: 
3, R. Ludwigii (E. & Z.! 1710); branches and the nooked prickles 
glabrous, reddish, young twigs and petioles downy ; leaves pinnate, 
5-7 foliolate, albo-tomentose beneath; leaflets sessile, ovate-oblong, 
deeply inciso-lobulate, the lobules triangular-acuminate; the terminal 
leaflet. petioled, often trifid or 3-parted and incised; peduncles short, — 
— lateral, few flowered, or im a short terminal raceme; petals broad, 
shorter than the taper-pointed, tomentose calyx-lobes; fruit albo- 
tomentose. R. rhodacantha, H.Mey. : tee 5 
Has, Among stones on mountain sides, of the Sturmberge, near the Witte, and — 
Zwartkei Rivers, Caffr., E.G Z! Drege! Schneewberg, Drege/ (Herb. Sond., D.) 
Stem terete, creeping, smooth ; branches suberect, sometimes glaucous, 
reddish-brown. Prickles abundant or few, on the twigs and petioles, but not on the 
nerves. Leaves 4~5 inches long ; leaflets 1-14 inch long, 4-] inch wide, glabrous 
and deep green above, very white and softly tomentose beneath. Flowers small. 
Fruits very woolly. 
4, R, rigidus (Sm.! in Rees. Cycl. 30, No. 5); branches, panicle, 
petioles, and ersurfaces of the leaves densely albo-tomentose ; 
lower leaves pinnately 5—foliolate, upper ternate or simple; leaflets 
broadly ovate, acute or obtuse, serrate or doubly serrate, glabrous or pi- 
lose above; panicle terminal, contracted, many flowered; calyx-seg- 
ments ovato-lanceolate; petals obovate : fruit golden or fulvous, gla-— 
‘Van. a. chrysocarpus; minutely glandular ; prickles smaller and fewer 
glabrous above ; calyx segments narrower. A. chrysocarpus, Ch. § Schl. 
p17. E.g Z.1 1708, Zey.! 2450, ex pte. ; 
Var. 6. Mundtii; without glands ; prickles larger and mo 
sparsely pilose above ; calyx-segments rather broader. R. 
p. 18. E.§Z, 1709. Zey! 2450, ex pte. & 572. . : 
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