Rusvs. ROSACEJE. 299 
ly orbicular, toothed-serrated, upper side glabrous, under white and to- 
mentose with recurved prickles on the midrib and some of the nerves: sti- 
pules subulate: panicles small, axillary and terminal, corymbose: segments 
oblong, white and shortly tomentose on both sides: petals cuneate-obovate, 
twice as long as the calyx.— Rowb. fl. Ind. 2. p. 517; Wight! cat. n. 1002.— 
pa aoip Wall. L.n. 730.—R. paniculatus, Moon ? Ceyl. pl. p. 40 (not 
. Roab. 
It is very closely allied to the last, but has the leaflets white beneath. We 
have a specimen before us from Ceylon. 
, 920. (8) R. lasiocarpus (Sm.:) stems terete, long, rooting at the extremi- 
ties, glabrous, glaucous, armed with curved prickles ; branches and petioles 
tomentose and prickly : leaves pinnated ; leaflets 3-1, somewhat plicate, from 
ovate or obovate and acuminated to lanceolate, terminal one roundish and 
often 3-lobed, glabrous above, white and tomentose beneath, irregularly 
toothed and serrated : stipules subulate : panicles racemose, chiefly terminal : 
segments of the calyx oblong, attenuated at the apex, tomentose: pe 
roundish, shorter than the calyx : carpels tomentose.—Sm. in Rees’ cycl. ; DC. 
prod. 2. p. 558 ; Spr. syst. 2. p. 527; Wall.! L. n. 142; Wight! cat. n. 1003. 
R. albescens, Rowb. fl. Ind. 2. p. 519.—R. racemosa, Roxb. l. c.—R. Mysoren- 
sis, Heyne in Roth, nov. sp. p. 285; DC. prod. 2. p. 557.—R. parvifolius, 
Moon’s Ceyl. pl. p. 40.——Dindygul and Cunnawady hills. Mysore. 
.. The figure in Rumph. Amb. 5. t. AT. f. 1. resembles this much in the foliage : 
it is usually referred to R. parvifolius, Linn., from which however it is cer- 
tainly quite distinct ; Roxburgh, in his manuscripts, suggests that it may be 
T m (in E. I. C. mus. tab. 1444), or R. Roxburghianus, Wall. 
. n. 732. 
921. (4) R. rugosus (Sm. :) shrubby, armed with scattered small straight 
or recurved prickles : branches, calyx, and under side of the leaves villous 
with a tawny tomentum : leaves simple, cordate, 3-5-lobed, reticulated and 
pitted underneath, scabrous and pustuled above : stipules and bracteas villous, 
cleft into several segments : racemes few-flowered, axillary and terminal : seg- 
ments of the calyx oblong-lanceolate, equal to the corolla.— Sm. in Rees 
eycl.; DC. prod. 2. p. 567 ; Spr. syst. 2. p. 531; Wall.! L. n. 748; Wight ! cat. 
n. 1004.—R. alceæfolius, Poir. encycl. meth. 6. p. 247; DC. l. c. ; Spr. I. c—— 
R. reflexus, Ker, bot. reg. t. 461 ; DC. l c. p. 566 ; Spr. l. c.—R. Moluceanus, 
Roxb. fl. Ind. 2. p. 518 (not Linn.)—R. Hamiltonianus, Ser. in DC. l c. 
The lobes of the leaves are sometimes acute, sometimes obtuse: the seg- 
ments of the calyx, though always described obtuse, are occasionally acute. 
922. (5) R. hexagynus (Roxb. :) shrubby, armed with scattered compressed 
very short curved prickles : branches terete, tomentose : leaves oblong, more 
or less cordate at the base, serrated, villous on the nerves ; midrib beneath and 
the petioles prickly: stipules and bracteas divided into filiform segments : 
lowers numerous, arranged in a long terminal panicle: calycine eng en- 
tire, lanceolate-subulate : petals linear, a little shorter than the calyx: styles 
6: drupes about 3 or 4, obliquely ovate.—Roab. fl. Ind. 2. p. 516 ; Wall.! L. 
n. 125.—R. Indicus, Lesch. in DC. prod. 2. p. 568. 
II. FRAGARIA. Linn. 
eleft, with 5 practeoles. Petals 5. Sta- 
scattered on a fleshy and succulent po- 
central column. 
Calyx concave at the bottom, 5- 
mens numerous. Achenia juiceless, y 
lyphore or receptacle that at length separates from the conical 
Style lateral. Seed suspended.—Herbaceous plants throwing out runners. 
Leaves trifoliolate: leaflets coarsely toothed. Receptacles or polyphores 
roundish, succulent, red or whitish. 
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