568 ICOSANDRIA POLYGYNIA. 



glabrous : all armed with rigid, reflexed, prickles. Leaves fiequenlir 

 acute, Tillous, particularly on the under surface, prickly alont^ the 

 midrib, obtuse, and even slightly cordate at base ; the interme'Jliate 

 leallet longer, oi) a petiole about half an inch long, the lateral ones 

 nearly sessile. Stipules, 2 at the base of each petiole, small, subulate, 

 hairy. Flowers in simple racemes, which, from the lengtli of the 

 Jovvcr peduncles, resemble corymbs ; a stipule at the base of each 

 peduncle, ovate, generally 3 cleft, persistent. Calyx persistent,- 

 segments ovate, mucronate, hairy without, tomentose within. Petals 



obovate, white, S — 4 times as long as the calyx. Filaments shod. 

 ^nthers at first nearly white, afterwards purple. Fruit black, tolera- 

 bly well flavoured, though with a perceptibly bitter taste. 



Grows in damp soils, forming compact and almost impenetrable 

 thickets. 



Flowers April ; ripens its fruit in June. Hi^h bush-blackberru. 



S. CuNEiFOLius. Pursli 



R. caulfi- 



caiile, petiolis pe- [ Stem, petioles and pe- 

 tliinculisque puhesceriti- | duncles pubescent ; stem 

 bus; caule erecto, sub- erect, slightly angled; 

 angulato ; foliis ternatis ,• | leaves ternate ; leaflets 

 foliolis ovali-lanceolatis, I oval lanceolate, acute, cu- 

 acutis, basi cuneatis, den- neate at base, dentate, 

 tatis, plicatis, subtus to- j plicate, tomentose under, 

 inentosis; racemis laxis ; neath ; racemes loose; 

 pedicellis unifloris. E. | pedicels i flowered. 



I^lrsh, 1. p. 347. 

 R.parvifolius, Walt. p. 149., 



«f f^f ^""^ ?/«et ir.gh, erect, slightly angled, armed with subulate, 

 recurved pnckles, bearing a few branches^ Leaves rarely quinate, 

 WnTnj/''*T^, ^""^ "^^'^''^^ '^'■''^te, hairy on the upper surface, to- 

 ZrTZ- ^"^»^g'^«PO»s underneath, tapering towards the base, tl.eo 

 ?/mT.1™ J ?Pu'^- f'^^^'' P'-'^^^l/' somewhat tomentose. /"- 

 tl r en^H,^ f /J ^^% '"^ ""^ ^"^^ ^'•^"'^hes, resembling corymbs fron^ 

 litVaii- J^'o'"'^'"^'' peduncles. Segments of the calj/x iancee- 

 the ralvv r!' ^."^"•^^' tomentose. Petah oval, thrice as long /^ 

 we calyx, white, tinged with rose-colour. Fruit ovate, juicy, eata- 



rsh 



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It U npSl'^ '" *'"^ -^'f'^l '' ^y "0 means dry, as mentioned by P 

 Flowers April. Ripens its fruit in June. 



3. OCCIDENTALIS. 



K. rami's petiolisque I Branches and petioles 

 ...Baucis aculeatisquc ; fc glaucous and prick^^ • 



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