4G0 xr.ix. nosAC'K.i:. 



tlian the calyx-lobos. Mhite. Stamens 1 -seriate. Fruit golden-vello'n'^ 

 globular, succulent, of numerous clru])es on a cylindric hairy receptacle : 

 stone rugose. linhns eUiptinis, Talb. Trees, Bomb. ed. 2, p. ]57- 

 J{. WaUichiama, AVight & Arn. Prodr. p. 298. li. WallicJnanus, 

 Dalz. & Gibs. p. 89. 2L hirtus (sp.), Eoxb. llort. Beng. p. 38. 



KanarA: highest Gliiits to llie southwards, Bahd/ ■.j- Gibson; along the highest 

 Ghats southwards from iraliablesliwar. TaV.ot. 



Dalzell & Gibson (/. c.) state that the plant is found along with /?. Irrsiocarpus 

 which is abundant at Maliableshwnr, but I have never found it there, uor does 

 Woodrow include it in his li^t. Tliere are no .epcciuieiis frura Bombay in Herb. 

 Kew.— Dii>Ti;iB. India (Iliniala^as and Western Peninsula). 



.3. Rubus lasiocarpiis, >'^'iii. in Bees, Cyclop, v. 30 (1819) Jlulm^, G. 

 A rambling sarmentose prickly shrub ; old branches reddish-brown, 

 smooth ; young shoots covered with a thin whitish tomentum ; prickles 

 compressed, hooked or rarely straight. Leaves 4-8 in. long, (including 

 the petiole), imparipinnate ; rhachis closely set with prickles of variable 

 size and clothed v\ ith soft woolly pubescence; petioles f-lg in. long; 

 stipules linear, acute. Leaflets 5-9, ovate or elliptic, acute, the terminal 

 leaflet sometimes lobed, longer than the sessile lateral ones, all dark-green, 

 more or less pubescent and wrinkled on the upper side owing to the 

 numerous prominent nerves below, hoar}' beneath with white woolly 

 tomentinu, the margins serrate, the serratures ending in a stout bristle, 

 base cordate or rounded, rarely acute; petiolules of the terminal leaflets 

 |-|- in, long. Flowers in terminal and axillary tomentose corymbs, 

 the axillary corymbs sometimes reduced to a solitary flower ; peduncles 

 short, tomentose, rarely prickly; bracts linear-subulate. Calyx 

 pubescent ; tube small and broad ; lobes ovate, w ith a long slender 

 acumination. Petals pink, orhicular or bro:idly obovate, scarcely 

 exceeding the calyx. Car])els numerous, tomentose ; styles red. Fruit 

 2-| in. in diam. ; globose; drupes numerous, dark-purple when ripe; stone 

 pitted. Fl. B. I. V. 2, p. 339 : Grab. Cat. p. 04 ; Dalz. & Gibs. p. 89 ; 

 AVight, Icon. t. 232 ; Trim. Fl. CevL v. 2, p. 138 ; Talb. Trees, Bomb, 

 ed. 2, p. 158; AVoodr. in Journ.'Bomb. Xat. v. 11 (1898) p. 635; 

 AVatt, Diet. Econ. Prod. v. 0, part 1, p. 582. — Flowers : Kov. A'ern. 

 Gauri2jlia]. 



Df.Ccan : Panehgani, JI'oo<7rOM' ; IVrahableshwar, IT. M. Hirdu-ood, Coo/.c] Kanaka: 

 highest Ghats to the southward, Bah/ll cf Oihso)/. 



Very comuion at Mahableshwar, where it is found wild and where it is also 

 etiltivated, cliiefly in the gardens below the lake, for its fruit which is largely eaten 

 by the Europeans who frequent the hill and al.'o made into jam. The fruit, which 

 Bomewhat resembles a black berry, is ccmuionly known as tlie " Maf/ahlcf^hwor 

 Itaspbcrri/." — DisiniB. India (Temperate Himalaya, Birma, \Y. Peninsula); Ceylon, 

 Java. 



livlits rosa'folius, vSm. Ic. ined. t. GO, ex Hook. f. in Fl. B. T. v. 2, 

 p. 341. A subscandent woody shrub,a native of the temperate llimalajas, 

 the Khasia Hills, and Ava, is sometimes grown in gardens. The flowers 

 are large, \-l in. in diam., white, and the drujjcs are small. It flowers in 

 August. 



