516 ICOSANDRIA POLYGYNIA. Rubus. 
11, Reinermis, R. Ee ek ie 
‘Suffruticose, unarmed; leaves ternate and — 
pinnate ; leaflets lanceolate, serrate, smooth. 
' Of this very elegant small plant we have two varieties 
from China: one with double white flowers, called by the 
Chinese, Po-mou-he-wong ; the other with double aad 
— Wong- — Loh eM) 
RUBUS. Schreb. gen. n. 864. 
Calyx five-cleft. Petals five. Berry superior, com- 
pound grains one-seeded. 2 
1. R. hexagynus. 3 igh 
Shrubby, scandent, armed. Leaves simple, oblong 
and oblong-cordate, serrate. Panicles terminal. Flowers 
hexagynous ; petals linear, shorter than the calyx. _ 
Hera-Chora, the vernacular name in Silbet, where 
the plant is indigenous. _It flowers about the end of ibe 
_ rains, and the seeds ripen in the cool season. — 
Stem in fall grown plants, as stout as a man’s arm, with 
numerous, very long, climbing, round’ branches, and vil- 
lous branchlets, all’ armed with small recurved prickles ; 
when their apices rest on the ground, they strike root 
Leaves alternate, short-petioled, simple, from oblong t@ 
ovate-cordate, serrulate, villous underneath ; rib and pe 
tioles armed ; from three to five inches long and from one 
to two broad. Stipules slender, and often divided int? 
filiform, villous segments. Panicles terminal, large and 
very ramous, villous. Flowers numerous, ‘small, long- 
pedicelled, white. Bractes solitary at all the divisions, 
from simply filiform to multifid, villous, Calycine 5¢9- 
ments undivided, with the end subulate. Petals lineat,an4 
a little shorter than the calyx. _ Filaments numeroas; 18° 
serted on the calyx, and ati the Igngth of the petals. 
Anthers oval, Germ six, inserted in the centre of @ con- 
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