134 ROSACE/S. 



undersides of the leaflets and the inflorescence. Leaves 

 4 to 7 inches, lateral leaflets I to 2j^ inches. Flowers 

 many, Vz inch across. Sepals densely white inside and 

 out, acute but not acuminate. Fruit J^ inch, red. 



Pulneys : Kodaikanal downs in thickets, common. Nilgiris : 

 Coonoor. Fyson 441. Bourne 1064. 



Gen. Dist. Widely over the mountains of India, Ceylon, Burma, Java. 



ii. R. racemosus Roxburgh (hairy form) ; F.B.I, ii 340, 

 VIII 36. Branchlets, leaf-stalks, and inflorescence 

 clothed with glandular hairs and also other short hairs, 

 but not a thick tomentum. Leaves from 4 inches, includ- 

 ing the stalk to 8 inches. Leaflets five or three, densely 

 white below; the lateral l^ to 1V2 inches, acute or 

 obtuse. Flowers few, nearly an inch across on pedicels 

 of J^ to M inch in mostly axillary corymbs or corymbose 

 cymes. Sepals white inside and out, prickly, with fine 

 point (acuminate). Petals as long or longer, J4 inch 

 across, distinctly stalked. Fruiting stalks decurved. 

 t. 97. 



Kodaikanal downs. Vembadi shola. Bourne, Nilgiris : 

 on the downs. Fyson 1043, 3025, 2941. 



This occurs also near Ootacamund with much white bloom on 

 the branches and corymbs mainly terminal. Also, with long dark 

 purple branches covered with white bloom, leafless but bear- 

 ing short leafy twigs covered with red hairs ; corymbs in the 

 uppermost axils very dense ; fruiting pedicels decurved and 

 the adjacent corymbs forming together dense terminal clusters 

 of fruit. Pykara. Fyson 266^. 



iii. R. racemosus Roxburgh (glabrous form). Branch- 

 lets and other parts with glandular hairs and also few 

 simple ones ; but not white. Leaflets seven or five green 

 and glabrous below. Flowers as in No. ii, but sepals not 

 white behind except on the edges. Prickles on the 

 older branches perhaps stouter. 



' Kodaikanal in a shola on the Poombari road. (Bourne 917.) 

 Flowers in December and June and presumably all the year. 



