ROSACEiE. 133 



inches; lateral smaller, sometimes only half as long. 



Flowers in dense terminal and axillary racemose 



panicles : bracts lanceolate. Sepals ovate, acute or 



mucronate, white on the outer (under) side, with or 



without red hairs. Fruit yellow, luscious with the 



flavour of a Raspberry. Wight Ic. 230. 



On the open downs. Puhieys near Kodaikanal. Nilgiris : 

 Ootacamund to Neduwattum 5,500 feet. Fyson 267, 642. 

 Bourne 1626. 



Gen. Dist. Temperate and tropical Himalaya, Khasia, Burma, West- 

 ern Ghats but not in Bombay C.B.F.'' Ceylon, Yunan. 



var wallichiana Wight and Amott ex Foche ; leaves green under- 

 neath ; appears to me to be connected with the type by many gradations. 



Rubus lasiocarpus Smith and R. racemosus Rox. 

 burgh. 



For convenience of distinguishing these two very closely allied species, 

 I take them together. 



Rambling shrubs with odd-pinnate leaves of seven, 

 five or occasionally three leaflets. Older branches reddish 

 brown, often with a white powdery bloom, very prickly, 

 as also the leaf-stalks and even the midrib of the end 

 leaflets. Lateral leaflets ovate or obovate, acute or not; 

 end one broader and more rounded at the base, often 

 lobed ; all sharply and irregularly toothed, and with 

 five to ten pairs of very straight veins running from the 

 midrib right to the margin, near which they may fork ; 

 but occasionally, especially when there are only three 

 leaflets, the terminal one has three veins from the base, 

 exactly as if the three end leaflets were fused in one. 

 Flowers in corymbs terminal and axillary : pedicels 

 slender, ^ to ^ inch. Sepals triangular acute or long 

 pointed. Petals red, roundish. Carpels hairy, fruits red 

 always in flower. 



i. R. lasiocarpus Smith {1 var pauciflorus); F.B.L ii 

 339, Vni 35. Branchlets and other parts without glands, 

 but covered with a dense white tomentum, as also the 



