298 ROSACEA. Runvs. 
$3. Anther-bearing stamens 3, with or without several minute sterile filaments, 
all united at the very base : ovary-stalk free from the calyz-tube.—Phane- 
ra, Lour; DC. é 
917. (9) B. anguina (Roxb.:) “ climbing: stem compressed, flexuose ; 
flexures approximated, regularly and alternately concave and convex on the 
two flat sides:” leaves glabrous, cordate ; leaflets 3-nerved, half ovate, acu- 
minated, united on young plants to the middle, on older ones to the apex: 
tendrils simple or bifid : racemes long, simple, many-flowered, forming a ter- 
minal panicle: flowers very small: calyx cup-shaped, obtusely 5-lobed ! : pe- 
tals obovate: stamens 3, all fertile : ovary glabrous, 2-ovuled, its stalk free 
from the calyx: legume oblong, glabrous, 1-2-seeded.— Roxb. Cor. 3. t. 285; 
fi- Ind. 2. p. 328 ; DC. prod. 2. p. 516 ; Spr. syst. 2. p. 333 ; Wall.! L.n. 5773. 
—B. piperifolia, Rowb.? fl. Ind. 2. p. 321.— Rheed. Mal. 8. t. 30, 31.——Bir- 
thour, Berkencour, and other places on the Malabar side; Rheede. 
ORDER LVII—ROSACEZ. Juss. 
Subord. |. PorENTILLE. Juss—Calyx 4-5- (or more-) divided: 
wstivation valvular. Petals as many as the lobes of the calyx, and al- 
ternating. Stamens indefinite, sometimes 10-15-20, rarely 5, and 
then alternate with the petals: anthers bilocular. Torus lining the tube 
of the calyx, sometimes becoming very fleshy: ovaria distinct, inde- 
finite, or rarely definite (2-5): ovules suspended, erect or ascending, 
solitary, or rarely in pairs, one above the other : style lateral, attached 
near the apex: stigma simple or plumose. Fruit of small nuts or 
achenia. Seeds solitary. Albumen none. Embryo straight: radicle 
next the hilum : cotyledons flat—Leaves alternate, often compound, 
stipulate. 
I. RUBUS. Linn.; Lam. ill. t. A41. 
Calyx flattish at the bottom, 5-cleft, without bracteoles. Petals 5. Sta- 
mens numerous inserted on the calyx along with the petals. Achenia nu- 
merous (rarely only 6), collected into a head on an evidently protuberant 
and spongy but not fleshy torus, at length becoming juicy and resembling 
little drupes. Styles slightly lateral from near the apex of the achenia. Seed 
inverted.—Shrubs, or rarely perennial herbaceous plants. Stems usually bi- 
ennial, often rooting, sometimes unarmed but more generally prickly- Leaves 
petioled, sometimes pinnate or palmate, sometimes simple. Fruit eatable. 
918. (1) R. Wallichiania (W. & A.:) stems somewhat terete, and thelpe 
tioles and peduncles and pedicels armed with recurved prickles and dense Y 
hispid with brown horizontal hairs : leaves pinnately trifoliolate ; leaflets nearly 
orbicular, toothed-serrated, green on both sides, glabrous above, slightly 
lous beneath ; midrib and some of the larger nerves prickly beneath: stip sd 
subulate: panicles large, compound, somewhat corymbose, axillary an s 
minal: segments of the calyx oblong-lanceolate, tomentose, hispid 27 
base : petals oblong, the length of the calyx.— Wight! cat. n. 1001.—R. hirtas, 
Roxb. fl. Ind. 2. p. 518 (not of Weihe and Nees). 
919. (2) R. gowreephul (Roxb. :) stems somewhat terete, and the petioles — 
and peduncles armed with recurved prickles and densely hispid with amit E. 
horizontal hairs: leaves pinnately trifoliolate ; leaflets from elliptical to 3 
