ROSACEA* 135 



This pllnt is exactly matched by a sheet of Wight's {Kew Dist. 912, at 

 Kew), labelled Pulney mountains September 1836 and is probably therefore 

 the plant referred to in the F.B.I, as Wight's glabrous specimen, which 

 resembled Z'or subglaber of R. lasiocarpus. 



FRAGARIA. f.b.i. 51 x. 



Strawberry, 

 Small herbs with trifoliate leaves and creeping 

 stolons, by which they spread and multiply ; and dis- 

 tinguished in fruit by the fleshy torus on which the 

 dry seed-like achenes are set. Branches, leaves, etc., 

 silky ; stipules large. Flowers on axillary stalks mostly 

 solitary. Calyx tube wide, bearing below an epicalyx of 

 five green bracteoles alternating with the sepals ; both 

 persistent. Stamens about twenty. Carpels on a convex 

 centre which in fruit becomes fleshy ; achenes very 

 numerous and small, glabrous. 



A very small genus of perhaps half a dozen species, found 

 only in temperate and alpine climates, all over the northern 

 hemisphere^ but also on the mountains of Mexico and Chile. 



Named frotn the Latin fragrans because of the fragrant frtiit. 

 Flowers white in tall panicles ; fruits pale pink. F. nilgerrensis. 

 Flowers yellow, solitary ; fruits red F. indica. 



Fragaria indica Andr. ; F.B.I. ii 343, X I ; Red 

 Strawberry. Rootstock stout, runners slender, with 

 long internodes making the plant diffuse ; green parts 

 more or less silky, densely hairy below. Flowers J^ to I 

 inch across, on peduncles of 2 to 4 inches ; epicalyx 

 broadly triangular and three-lobed, sometimes much 

 exceeding the sepals and reflexed in fruit, but also smaller 

 and less conspicuous. Petals yellow. Fruit bright red, 

 H to % inch diameter spherical, achenes obscurely 

 pitted, t. 98. Wight Ic t. 989. 



Pulneys : Kodaikanal, but apparently very rare. Fyson 2g'j, 

 Nilgiris : Bourne, Wight. 



My Kodaikanal specimen has leaflets distinctly stalked, one and one- 

 fourth by three-fourth inch broad, and one of the internodes of the runner 



