RubuS. ICOSANDRTA POLYGYNIA. 517 



vex, very hairy, receptacle, one-celled, containing one 

 ovula attached to the top of the cell. /5^?//e the length of 

 the germ, permanent. Stigma simple. Seeds, rather, 

 partial berries, for they are so, from one to six, generally 

 three or four, distinct, obliquely ovate, smooth, red and 

 succulent ; when dry wrinkled, almost chocolate-coloured. 

 Integuments two, the exterior one sublucid ; the inner one 

 membranaceous. Perisperm none. Embryo inverse, Coty- 

 Jedons ovate, conform to the seed. Radicle superior. 



It ought to be compared with Dr. Smith's Rubits 

 pyrifolius. To me it appears to differ from his figure and 

 description, in the leaves being broader and cordate at 

 the base ; in all the calycine segments being undivided, 

 and lastly in the petals being only a little, say one-fourth, 

 shorter than the calyx. 



2. R. gowree phul. R. 



Shrubby, armed with recurved prickles and terminal, 

 subpanicled. Petals twice the length of the calyx. Rubous. 

 Asiat. Res. 6, p. 364. 



A native of the Sewalik mountains, which bound 

 Hindoostan on the north. 



A large, bushy, perennial plant, with very long spread- 

 ing and recurved branches, and somewhat five-sided, 

 succulent ; branchlets armed with many sharp recurved 

 prickles, and a great quantity of long harsh diverging 

 reddish-brown hair. 



Leaves scattered, ternate. Leaflets oval, serrate, downy 

 and whitish underneath, from two to four inches long. 

 Petioles round, armed and hairy like the branches. Sti- 

 pules petiolary, subulate. Flowers axillary, and terminal, 

 forming small corymbiform panicles, pretty large and 

 white. Bractes subulate downy. Calyx downy, parti- 

 cularly on the outside. Petals cuneiform-obovate, twice 

 the length of the calyx, pure white. Stamens in a single 

 series round the germ, and of nearly the same height. 



