10, Rubus Le 
Armed or unarmed or prostrate samemmed sherbs with compound or 
Ss racemose, corymbose or solitary, 
perfect, dioecious or polygamous. Caly# 5-parted, without appendages, the tube 
saucer=shaped. Petals deciduous, white/ or rose-color. Stamens numerous, in- 
alyx-tube. Pistils few to many, inserted © 
forming fleshy drupelets at maturity . } 
a fleshy aggregate fruit 
simple leaves. Stipules present. Fl 
serted on a disc at the margin of the 
on a convex or cylindrical receptacle, 
which may be wholly cm or may 
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Leaves manlewlike, simple, the stems unarmed 
Leaves 3-5-foliolate 
Creeping herb with very slender threadlike, 
unarmed stems 
Shrubs, sanetimes prostrate, more or less armed 
Prostrate; petals white, twice as long as the 
sepals; fruit a blackberry 
Erect or the stems drooping, not prostrate 
Petals red, twice the length of the sepals; 
shrub weakly armed; leaves green and 
glabrate on both surfaces 
Petals white, subequal to the sepals; 
shrubs armed; leaves more or less 
canescent-tomentose beneath 
Prickles straight, weak, hardly expanded 
at the base; peduncles and calyx with 
stalked glands 
Prickles curved, stout, expanded at the 
base$ peduncles and calyx without 
stalked glands 
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J. Re parviflorus | 
2, Re pedatus 
3. Re macropetalus 
4. Re spectabilis | 
5 Re idasus 
6. R. leucodermis 
aN RS Cael 
