Pygeum.] xlviii. rosacea. 677 



through, black. Hah. Local, on high mountains. Malacca, Mt. 

 Ophir at 4000 ft. altitude (Griffith, Hullett, Ridley). 



(13) P. ovalifolium King, I.e. 292. 



Small tree 15 to 20 ft. tall. Leaves stiffly coriaceous, oval 

 blunt emarginate, base round, above glabrous, midrib rusty- 

 tomentose on both sides; nerves 7 to 8 pairs, fine, red-hair}^ 

 175 to 2-15 in. long, i to 1-15 in. wide; petioles -3 to -4 in. long! 

 Racemes stout, axillary, 3 to 5 in. long, few-flowered, tomentose. 

 Flowers -2 in. long, sessile, brown-tomentose. Calyx-tube cam- 

 panulate, teeth oblong, blunt 10. Petals o. Stamens 30 to 40, 

 glabrous, exsert. Pistil shorter. Ovary silky. Fruit sub-globose', 

 apiculate, grooved, -35 in. through. Hah. Mountains 4800 to 

 5300 ft. altitude. Perak, Gunong Bubu (Kunstler). 



(14) P. rubiginosum Ridl. Journ. F.M.S. Mus. vi. 143. 

 Small bushy tree. Leaves ovate acuminate, base round, 



glabrous except midrib, sparingly hairy beneath; nerves 6 to 7 

 pairs, midrib and edge red-hairy, 1*5 in. long, 75 in. wide; petioles 

 •3 in. long, rufous-hairy. Racemes dense, -4 in. long. Bracts 

 oblong-ovate, red-hairy. Pedicels very short. Calyx -12 in. long, 

 red-hairy, lobes 10. Petals o. Stamens red glabrous. Hab. 

 Local, in high mountains in small woods. Pahang, Gunong Tahan 

 open country at 5000 to 6000 ft. altitude (Ridley). 



6. RUBUS, Linn. 



Sarmentose thorny shrubs. Leaves alternate, simple rarely 

 compound; stipules conspicuous. Flowers in terminal and axillary 

 panicles, rarely solitary, white or pink. Calyx-tube broad, lobes 



5 persistent. Petals 5. Stamens very numerous. Disc lining 

 the calyx-tube. Carpels drupaceous on a convex receptacle, 

 i-seeded. Abundant in north temperate zone, rarer in the south. 

 Species about 200. 



Leaves simple. 



Flowers -5 in. wide; calyx woolly; leaves large . (i) R. alcesefolius 

 Flowers '4 in. or less wide; calyx tomentose; 



leaves buff tomentose beneath . . . . (2) R. angulosus 



Flowers about -4 in., lax panicle; calyx silky; 



leaves ovate hardly lobed . . . . . (3) R. glomeratus 



Flowers a little smaller ; panicle more lax ; leaves 



hardly tomentose beneath . . . . (4) R. Hasskarli 



Flowers small; calyx pale velvety; leaves as in 



glomeratus, but white-scurfy beneath . . . (5) R. elongatus 



Leaves pinnate . . . . . . . (6) R. rossefolius 



(i) R. alceaefolius Poir. Encycl. Method. Bo/, vi. 247 ; Focke, 

 Bibl. Bot. 17, p. 78. 



A robust bramble. Stem velvety, thorns large, dark. Leaves 

 5-lobed, cordate denticulate bullate with strigose hairs above, 

 yellowish tomentose, back of leaf whitish, velvety ; midrib thorny, 



6 in. long and wide, or less; petioles 1-5 to 2"5 in. long, velvety 



