XI. IX. nosACicj:, 4.j9 



and axillary corymbose panicles (rarely solitary J, while or red. Calyx 

 ])eristenl ; lube broad ; lobes 5. J'olals ."). .Stamens usually iudcjfiaite, 

 inserted at the mouth of the calyx ; iilaments lllirorm. Disk lining tlio 

 calyx-tube. Carpels many, on a convex receptacle ; ovules 2, collateral, 

 pendulous; style subterminal. Fruit ot" numerous small 1-seeded drupes 

 crowded upon a (hy spongy conical or cyliudric receptacle. »Seed pen- 

 dulous. — DisxiUH. Abundant in the northern, rare in the southern 

 hemisphere ; species about 201K 



Leaves siin pie 1 . R. moluccanus. 



Leaves 3-foliolate 2. IL clUplicus. 



Leaves 5-9-foliolaLe 3. U. laaiucarpu.'^. 



1. Rubus moluccanus, Linn. Sp. PI. (1753) p. 1107. An ex- 

 tensive subscandent shrub ; young branches villons with yellowish hairs ; 

 prickles short, recurved, scattered over the branches, petioles and lower 

 surfaces of the midribs of the leaves. Leaves about as broad or (not; 

 infrequently) broader than long, 3-G in. in diam., palmately 5-7-lobed 

 (the lobes obtuse or subacute), irregularly and finely serrate-dentate, 

 bright-green rugulose and sparsely hispid above, clothed with soft 

 yellowish tomentuni, reticulately and prominently veined beneath, base 

 deeply cordate; main nerves often prickly beneath; petioles 1-2.^ in. 

 long, densely fulvous-hairy ; stipules usually large, toothed, pinnatitid 

 or laciniate, densely silky-hairj\ Flowers in terminal and axillary silky 

 panicles usually shorter than the leaves; peduncles stout; pedicels 

 short, fulvous-silky ; bracts pectinate. Calyx densely silky ; lobes more 

 or less triangular, entire or pectinately toothed at the apex. Petals 

 white, obovate, shorter than the calyx. Fruit globose, succulent, the 

 individual carpels red, the receptacle hairy. Fl. B. I. v. 2, p. 330 ; 

 Trim. Fl. Ceyl. v. 2, p. 136 ; Talb. Trees, Bomb. ed. 2, p. 157 ; Woodr. 

 in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 11 (1898) p. G35 ; Watt, Diet. Econ. Prod. v. G, 

 part 1, p. 583. llabus rwjosus, Sm. in llees, Cyclop, v. 30 (1819) 

 Euhus, 34 ; Grab. Cat. p. Gl ; Dalz. & Gibs. p. 89 ; Wight, Icon. t. 225. 

 — Flowers : May. 



A rare plant. Dfxcax : Mahablesbwar, Graham, BnJzell cf- Gibson, Cooke ! 

 Kanaka : on the Niikund and Southern Ghats of N. Kanara, Talbot. 



I have found this at Mahableshwar in a ravine below the old temple, in which 

 locality Graham also seems to have found it. I have not met with it elsewhere on 

 the hill. — DisTUin. India {Central, Eastern and Tropical Himalayas, Nipal, Sikkim, 

 Birma, Assam, \V. Peninsula); Cejlon, Malaya. 



2. Rubus ellipticus, var. hirta, IIool-. f. in FL B. /. v. 2 (1S7S) 

 p. 33G. A tall snberect bush ; stems and branches somewhat sparselv 

 armed with hooked .scattered prickles, shaggy with long horizontal 

 (often very dense) brown bristly hairs, covering a sliort greyish pubescence. 

 Leaves pinnately 3-foliolate ; leaf-rhachis (including the petiole) 1-5—2 in., 

 shaggy ; common petioles |-1 in, long, shaggy ; stipules subulate. 

 Leaflets broadly elliptic or obovate, acuminate, irregularly serrate-dentate, 

 green on both sides, glabrous or nearly so, prominently reticulately 

 veined beneath, the terminal leaflets 31-5 by 2-|-3| in. with petiolules 

 h-\ in. long, the lateral leaflets \h-2h by 1-1| in. with petiolules -^ in. 

 long. Flowers in axillary and terminal panicles ; pedicels short. 

 Calyx finely pubescent outside, sometimes with a few scattered bristly 

 hairs ; lobes ovate or elliptic, usuallv mucronate. Petals obovate. lon'>-er 



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