516 ICOSANDRTA POLYGYNIA. Rubus, 



11. "R. inennis. R. 



Suffruticose, unarmed ; leaves ternate and quinate- 

 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-niou-he-wong ; the other with double yellow 

 flowers, Wong-mour-he-wong. 



RUBUS. Schrch. gen. n. 864. 

 Calyx five-cleft. Petals five. Berry superior, com- 

 pound grains one seeded. 



1. R. hexagynus. 



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 Silhet, where 

 the plant is indigenous. It flowers about the end of the 

 rains, and the seeds ripen in the cool season. 



Stem in full 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 to 

 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 into 

 filiform, villous segments. Panicles terminal, large and 

 very ramous, villous. Flowers numerous, small, long- 

 pedicelled, \\hite. Bractes solitary at all the divisions, 

 from simply filiform to multifid, villous. Calycine seg- 

 ments undivided, with the end subulate. Petals linear, and 

 a little shorter than the calyx. Filaments numerous, in- 

 serted on the calyx, and nearly the length of the petals. 

 Anthers oval. Germ six, inserted in the centre of a con- 



