Plants of the Punjab. 519 
Prosrrare SHRUBS WITH ALTERNATE STIPULATH CompouND LuAvEs. 
Rubus elliptieus, 
Lal Anchhu, akht, 
Rosacem. 
F. B. I. ii, 386. 
Himalaya, 
2-7,000 ft. 
Simla, Mashobra 
(Collett). 
Rubus fruticosus, 
var. discolor, 
Bramble, Blackberry, 
Alish, kanachi. 
Rosacez. 
fobs Ue tl. oot. 
Himalaya, 
west of the Chenab, 
Ja au, Murree. 
Rubus antennifer, 
Rubus purpureus, 
var. subinermis, 
RosacEs. 
BB. Ear. aos, 
Kashmir, 
8-10,000 ft. 
PETALS UNUNITED, 
circular-ovate with broad tip, stalked, longer than the sepals, 
st:mens many ; fruit round, yellow or orange, enclosed 
in the calyx, drupes 20-80, smooth, on a columnar velvety 
receptacle, seed rugged. The fruit is eaten. 
like the last species, but larger, shaggy, with long, 
tawny bristles, upper surface of leaflets green, velvety, 
lower grey-felted, carpels silky, The fruit which is golden 
yellow has a pleasant flavour like a raspberry. 
like the last species, but branches and under-surface 
of leaves white, felted with star-shaped hairs, flowers pink- 
in large ovate dense branching racemes, calyx lobes short, 
reflexed in fruit, carpels quite smooth, fruit black, seed 
pitted. ‘The fruit is eaten. 
gee Prostrate, Herbs, Alternate, Stipulate, Compound. 
common in water channels, straggling over the banks, 
branches stout, shining, pale or dark yellowish, purple, 
glandular hairs few, scattered, prickles replaced by strong 
bristles, leaflets 8-5, 2-4 in. long, smooth above, white 
beneath, broad ovate or circular heart-shaped, coarsely 
sharply doubly round-toothed, lateral leaflets sessile, 
smaller, leaf stalk 1-8 in., stout, pale coloured like the 
branches, stipules bristly, glandular, flowers 3 in. diam., 
drooping, solitary in the lower axils, 2-4 in., clusters on 
one stalk in the upper, calyx velvety, bristly, lobes ovate- 
lanceolate, finely long-pointed, erect in fruit, petals smaller 
than the calyx, circular-oblong, fruit red, round, enclosed — 
in the calyx, of many felted drupes on a columnar velvety 
receptacle ; for other characters see the last described. 
Species. 
