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XLI. KOSACEjE. [Rulus. 



Priclcly shru'bs, scrambling climbing or almost erect. Flowers piuk or 



Leave's broad, toothed or lobed, rusty underneath 2. iJ. mohccanus. 



Leaves pinnate, with 3 or 5 leaflets, white-tomentose underneath. 



Fruit with few large carpels 5. R. pam/ohus. 



Leaves pinnate, with 5 or 7 leaflets, green on both sides. "Fruit with 



numerous small carpels 4. ^. ros.'rfolm. 



Leaves digitate, with 5 leaflets on long petiolules b. K Moorei. 



1. R. Gunniamis, Hook. Ic. Fl. t. 2n. A dwarf, creeping, tufted, 

 glabrous .and unarmed plant, forming patches of several feet in diameter, the 

 slender woody steins usually buried in tlie sod. Leaves mostly ovale, j to nearly 

 1 in. long, deeply crenate-lobed or pinnately divided into 3 segments or leaf- 

 lets, the lobes obtuse. Peduncles solitary, not exceeding the leaves 1- 

 flowered. Calyx-lobes rather obtuse, about 2 lines long. Petals yellow, 

 narrow, exceeding the calyx. Fruit globular, scarlet, the carpels few, large, 

 very fleshy, and said to be of an excellent flavoiu*. — Hook. f. Fl. Tasni. i. 

 112. 



Tasmania. Common in the mountains, at an elevation of 3000 to 5000 ft., /• 0. 

 Hooker. 



2. R. moluccanus, Linn.; DC. Prod. ii. 566. A tall scrambling 



shrub; branches and petioles terete, clothed with a short rusty 'or wlute 

 woolly down, often mixed with longer hairs, and armed with numerous smau 

 recurved prickles. Leaves usually broadly ovate-cordate, toothed, shortly an 

 broadly 3- or 5-lobed, 2 to 4 in. long, occasionally deeply 3-lobed but uo^ 

 quite to the midrib, green, somewhat rugose and glabrous or spnnkled ffitn^^ 

 few hairs above, rusty or whitish-tomentose underaeath, the prmeipal ^el 

 more villous and often armed with prickles. Flowers red, in-egularly clus- 

 tered in short panicles in the upper axils, the upper ones formmg a terroi'^<^ 

 panicle, usually verv silky-villous. Bracts deeply cut, very deciduous, -t 

 eels usually short when in flower, longer in fruit. Calyx-lobes acunimate ^^^ 

 or 5 lines long. Fruit nearly globular, glabrous, _ scarcely ^^^^^'~^^f_j^^ 

 calyx-lobes in our specimens, said to be red, insipid or slightly acu . 

 Hum, F. Muell. in Trans. Phil. Inst. Vict. iii. 67, and Fragm. iv. ^l- ^^.^^ 



N. Australia. Port Essington, Armstrong ; a rather smaller-flowered form, «• 

 the leaves less lobed, almost as in R. acerifoKus, Wall. . , 



Queensland. Brisbane river, W. Hill, Leickhardt ; Rockhampton, ^^'^^\y. ^j^ers, 

 W. S. Wales. Hunter and WilUams rivers, R. Brown ; Hastings and ^^^"-'^Jy^ ; 



BecHer ; Clarence river, C. Moore ; Paramatta, WooUs ; Ilhiwarra, A. tun j 



Kiama, Harvey. 

 Victoria. Nangatta mountains, Upper Genoa river, F. Mueller. Mn^elv allied 



The species extends over the Indian Archipelago lo the Philippines, and tlic ""' '^f the 

 Jt. rugosus, Sm.. and R. reflexus, Bot. Reg., to £. India and China. \"*^ "^rchiptlago, 

 Australian specimens belong to a form precisely the same as one common in t 

 which appears to be that originally described by Rumphius. . 



3. R. parvifolius, Z«««. ; BO. Frod. ii. 564. A s^l'^^J^^'."^ 



branclies softly pubescent or woolly, armed with s^''*^^ .^^^^^ 3 or very 

 Leaves pinnate, witli a coraiuon petiole of 1 to 2 in. ; ^^^/^^, . jj^^jirly 

 rarely 5, nearly orbicular, about i to 1 in. long or in luxuriant ^^0 ^^.^,^ ^ 

 .twice a3 much, deeply and irregularly toothed, glabrous or sp^n ^^^^^^^ 

 few hairs and deeply wrinkled above, white and tomentose or woo ^ 



