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loles •2-*4 in. long, more or less triangular, sometimes deeply tootlied. 

 Petals obovate, white, shorter than the caljx-lobes ; ovaries numerous, 

 glabrous. Fruit globose, succulent, the individual carpels red, the 

 receptacle hairy. Roxb. Flor. Ind. II, 518 ; Miq. Flor. Ind. Bat. I, part 1, 

 382 ; Wall. Cat. 743 ; Kurz For. Flor. Brit. Burm.'l, 437. E. rugosusy 

 Smith in Rees Cyc. XXX, Rubus 84; Don Prodr. 234 ; Wight et Arn. 

 Prodr. 299; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Flor. 89; Thwaites' Enum. 101; 

 Wight Ic. t. 225 ; Wall. Cat. 748. liubus Hamiltonianus, Wall. Plant. 

 As. Rar. Ill, 19, t. 234. R. micropetalus, R. macrocarpus, and R. Fairliol- 

 miamts, Gardner in Calc. Journ. Nat. Hist. VIII, 6. R. cordifolius, 

 Don Prodr. 233. R. reflexus, Ker in Bot. Reg. 461 ; Benth. Hong-Kong 

 Flor. 104. R. Kamiltonianus^ Seringe in DC. Prodr. II, 566. Rumph. 

 Amboin. V, 88, t. 47, f. 2. 



In all the Provinces except the Andaman and Nicobar Islands ; com- 

 mon on the hilly parts. Distkib. British India, Malayan Archipelago. 



Var. alcesefolia ; pubescence very soft and velvety, leaves 4'5-10 

 in. in diam., prickles often "2 or '25 in. long, stipules and bracts pecti- 

 nate, terminal panicle often 6 in. long, calyx-teeth spreading. R. 

 alcesefolius, Poir. Encycl. VI, 247 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. Vol. I, Pt. 1, 379. 



Perak ; elevation 2000 feet, Wray 1463. Distrib. Malay Archi- 

 pelago. 



2. Rubus glomeratus, Blume Bijdr. 1111. A semi-scandent shrub; 

 young branches slender, with pale deciduous cobwebby pubescence. 

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

 lobes near the cordate base only, the upper half tapering to the acumi- 

 nate apex, not lobed, the edges everywhere dentate ; upper surface 

 glabrous except the pale-pubescent midrib and sometimes the nerves, 

 minutely rugulose ; lower surface minutely rusty- or tawny-tomentose 

 or sparsely pubescent, reticulate ; length 3-4 in., breadth l*75-2*5 in. ; 

 petiole 1-1*5 in. long, with minute prickles which extend sometimes 

 to the midrib. Stipules ovate, pinnatifid, deciduous. Panicles axillary 

 and shorter than the leaves, or terminal and as long as the leaves, few- 

 flowered, tawny-tomentose. Floioers "35 in. in diam. Calyx-lohes tri- 

 angular, entire, acute, tomentose. Petals as long as the calyx-lobes, 

 obovate. Carpels of the fruit numerous, red. R. Hasskarliij Miq. Flor. 

 Ind. Bat. Vol. I, Pt. 1, 381. R. acerifolius, Wall. Cat. 744. 



Penang ; Singapore ; Perak. Distrib. Malay Archipelago. 



Var. gracilis, King ; terminal panicles twice as long as the leaves ; 

 pedicels of the flowers •4-"6 in. long. 



In its long terminal panicles this variety resembles li. elongatus, but the flowers 

 have longer pedicels ; moreover the venation of the leaves is qnite that of B. 

 glomeratus. 



3. Rubus elongatus. Smith Icon. Ined. Ill, t. 62. A scandent 



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