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surface minutely puberulous ; main nerves 8-10 pairs, spreading, inter- 

 arching ; length 5 or 6 in ; petiole '2 in., very stout. Racemes axillary, 

 solitary, stout, '5 in. long, few-flowered, densely tomentose. Flowers 

 sessile. Calyx-tube o^conic, with 6 oblong teeth. Petals none. Stamens 

 12. Ovary globose, hairy. Fruit unknown. 

 Malacca ; Grijfith 2050. 



This species is very imperfectly known, the only specimens of it being Griffith's 

 which are quite fragmentary. The above description is taken entirely from Sir 

 Joseph Hooker, who in turn took the description of the flowers from Griffith's MSS. 

 It may be distinguished by its sinuate- toothed leaves. 



5. RuBUS, Linn. 

 Sub-erect or sarmentose shrubs, always prickly. Leaves alternate, 

 simple or compound ; stipules free or adnate to the petiole. Floivers in 

 terminal and axillary corymbose panicles, rarely solitary, white or red. 

 Galyx-tuhe broad ; lobes 5, persistent. Petals 5. Stamens many. Disc 

 lining the calyx-tube. Carpels many, on a convex receptacle ; style 

 subterminal ; ovules 2, collateral, pendulous. Drupes many, 1-seeded, 

 crowded upon a dry or spongy conical or cylindric receptacle. Seed 

 pendulous. Distrib. Abundant in the northern hemisphere, rare in the 

 southern ; species about 200. 



Leaves simple : — 



Leaves palmately 5-7-lobed; terminal panicle shorter 

 than the leaves ; young branches tomentose, woolly or 

 villous. ... ... ... ... ... 1. R. moluccanus. 



Leaves ovate or ovate-triangular, with 2 or 4 shallow 



lobes at the base only ; terminal panicle as long as the 



leaves ; young branches with thin cobwebby pubescence. 2. R. glomeratus. 



Leaves broadly ovate, not lobed ; terminal panicle much 



longer than the leaves ; young branches puberulous at 



first but speedily glabrous ... ... ... 3. R. elongatus. 



Leaves pinnate ..-. ... ... ... 4. R. rossefoUus. 



1. RuBUS MOLUCCANUS, Linn. Spec. PL 707. A powerful subscan- 

 dent shrub ; the young branches, under surfaces of the leaves and 

 inflorescence densely tawny or rusty-tomentose, villous or woolly ; prickles 

 short ('1 in. or less) and recurved on the branches, petioles and lower 

 surfaces of the midribs, often absent on the main nerves. Leaves coria- 

 ceous, usually broader than long, broadly ovate or orbicular, deeply 

 cordate ; palmately 6-7-lobed, the lobes often lobulate ; 2-10 in. in diam., 

 the petioles l-2"5 in. long ; upper surfaces of leaves rugulose, sparsely 

 hispid, the edges irregularly dentate or serrate. Stipules varying in 

 size, oblong, toothed, pinnatifid or laciniate. Panicles axillary and ter- 

 minal, much shorter than the leaves, few-flowered. Floivers from '5-1 

 in. in diam., bracts like the stipules not with glandular hairs. Calyx- 

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