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mallet-head fruits. Branches lenticelled, glabrous ; 

 stipules minute, soon falling. Leaves 4 to 8 by ij^ to 3 

 inches ovate, acuminate, entire, base rounded or acute, 

 veins conspicuous below : stalks J^ to I inch, stout. 

 Spikes 2 to 4 inches, with stout, thickly pubescent rachis : 

 pedicels J^ inch stout. Flowers J4 inch across- Calyx 

 obconic with ten to twelve hairy obtuse lobes alternately 

 larger and smaller, deciduous as a whole. Petals none. 

 Stamens twice as many in two rows, exserted. Ovary 

 glabrous surrounded at the base by hairs : style short. 

 Fruit % to I J4 by % inch, transversely oblong and 

 obscurely two-lobed, rounded at the ends attached by 

 the middle of one side. Wight Ic. t. 993. 



Pulneys : Kodaikanal. In the station shola and in others. 

 Nilgiris : hill above Pykara 7,500 feet. Flowering after the 

 rains, fruiting in December and June. Bourne 474, 915, 2593. 



Gen. Dist. Western Ghats and northwards to Mableshwar. 



In F.B.I, the stamens are given as twelve and short. C.F.B. rightly 

 gives them as more than twenty and well exserted. Both remark on the 

 inequality of the lobes of the calyx, they seem to me alternately large and 

 small. 



Some species have glands at the base of the leaves, this one has not. 



RUBUS. F.B.I. 51 VIII. 



Bramble. 



Herbs or prickly shrubs with simple lobed or com- 

 pound leaves, and terminal or axillary corymbs of pink 

 or white flowers of five sepals, five petals, many stamens 

 and on a raised centre (torus) many separate carpels, each 

 of which becomes fleshy, with a small stone inside ; the 

 whole fruit being composed therefore of a number of 

 small drupes (Blackberry, Raspberry). 



Species about 100, abundant in the northern hemisphere. 



Great variations occur in both the leaves and inflorescence of many of 

 these species, and this has led to the genus being divided up not only into 

 sections or subgenera and species but the latter also again into sub-species 

 and micro-species, which are supposed to come true to seed. The 

 genus has recently been monographed on these lines by Foche. I have not 



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