L38 F. W. C. Areschoug. 



vexiuscüla, supra sparse pilosa, serraturis late rotundatis, obtusis, apiculatis, 

 apiculis liaud raro reflexis; petioli superne plani, aculeis sparsis, falcatis 

 muniti; foliolum terminale petiolum suum una cum petiolo communi sub- 

 sequans, prsecipue in foliis 7-natis late obovatum, nonnumquam sensim acu- 

 minatum, lateralia obovata, acuta vel abrupte acuminata. Stipulse lineares 

 vel lanceolatse, foliaeese. Rami floriferi foliis approximatis fere tecti, magis 

 minusve pilo-i & tomento brevi obsiti, aculeis sparsis, brevibus vel elongatis 

 & validis, nonnumquam aciculis & glandulis sparsissime muniti; foliolum 

 terminale foliorum infcriorum orbiculare vel rotundato-obovatum, obtusius- 

 culum vel breviter acutum, superioruin late ovale, acuminatum, foliola lateralia 

 obovata vel infima oblonga, omnia subtiliter & simpliciter, gequaliter serrata, 

 rarius inciso-subduplicato-serrata. Inflorescentia tota vel pars ultra-axillaris thyr- 

 soidea, apice obtusa, in ramis brevioribus efoliosa, subsimplex, racemosa, in ramis 

 longioribus composita, ad basin foliosa, ramis in apice cymas gerentibus, in 

 ramis maxime elongatis locupletissima & maxime composita, racemis secundariis, 

 axillaribus aucta. Flores sat parvi. Sepala pedicellos plerumque subfequantia. 

 Petala versus basin baud attenuata, abrupte unguiculata, extus pubescentia, in 

 flore aperto plerumque sese tegentia. Filameuta albida vel dilute rosea; antherse 

 glabrae. Styli ad basin nonnumquam rosei. Fruetus e drupeolis parvis, nuine- 

 rosis compositus. 



1 had, already in 1872, distinguished the species bere described, and sent 

 ii to several of my correspondents under the name of R. discolor, var. rotun- 

 difolius. In the second edition of my Skane's Flora (pag. 307), the same form 

 is mentioned under R. umbraticus, P. J. Müller, by which name I intended 

 a weaker tonn of this species, which form I then consideied identical with 

 it. vulgaris *umbrosus Arrh. (1. c. pag. 31). In the year 1882, Mr. 

 Neüman ilistributed the same form under the name R. pulcherrimus, which 

 name, however, Hooker had already given to an Asiatic species. Ferhaps it 

 was un this account that Mr. Lindebeko (Herb. Rub. Scaud.) described it under 

 the name of K. pul vantliemos. As this name had been already used by Mr. 

 Focke for another form, it was exchanged by this author (1. c.) for R. Neu- 

 liiiinni. As, however, the name polyantliemos stood vacant when Lindeberg 

 used it, I cannot und any sound reason for rejecting it, and thereby increasing 

 still mo re the already far too nuinerous synonymy. 



R. polyanthcmos seems to have its centrum in the northwest of Skåne. 

 Mr. GelebTj certainly, bas also found this species in Sleswig, where I have 



