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shrub; young branches at first pubescent but speedily glabrous, the bark 

 dark- coloured and with minute deflexed prickles. Leaves coriaceous, 

 broadly ovate, deeply cordate at the base, the apex acute ; the edges 

 sinuate and remotely dentate, not lobed ; upper surface smooth, glabrous 

 except the pubescent midrib ; under surface pale, and (except 8 or 4 on 

 the midrib) without prickles ; the nerves and veins glabrous and chest- 

 nut-brown, the areolee minutely pale-tomentose ; length 3'5-5'5 in., 

 breadth 2'5-3*5 in., petiole l'35-2 in., with a few small prickles. 

 Stipules ovate, pinnatifid, deciduous. Panicles pubescent and with small 

 scattered prickles, a few axillary and shorter than or as long as the 

 leaves ; the terminal one much longer than the leaves (often 15 in. 

 long) with distant branches ; the flowers mostly clustered at their 

 extremities, subsessile or shortly pedicelled, "3 in. in diam. Calyx-lobes 

 triangular, blunt, tawny-tomentose. Fruit with numerous red carpels. 

 DC. Prodr. II, 567 ; Blume Bijdr. 1112. B. Lohbiarms, Hook. Ic. PI. 

 t. 741-742. 



Perak ; Wray 421, 1849 ; King's Collector 3465, 5732 ; Scortechini 

 1468. biSTRiB. Sumatra. 



4. RuBUS ROSAEFOLius, Smith Ic. Ined. Ill, t. 60. A subscandent 

 woody shrub ; branches, petioles leaf-rachises and inflorescence with long 

 stiff usually glandular hairs, with shorter softer hairs intermixed and a 

 few sharp polished hooked spines. Leaves pinnate, 2-5 in. long ; leaf- 

 lets 3-7, membranous, lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, unequally incised- 

 serrate, rarely with 1 or 2 basal lobes, the apex acuminate, the base 

 rounded; upper surface sparsely strigose, the midrib and nerves villous ; 

 lower surface less strigose than the upper, minutely reticulate, never 

 white or glaucous ; length of leaflets 1-3 in., breadth '35-1 '2 in. ; petiolules 

 of the lateral leaflets •l-*2 in., those of the terminal ones '5-1 in. 

 Stipules linear-lanceolate, acuminate. Floivers "75-1 in. in diam., on 

 pedicels much longer than themselves, solitary or in lax few-flowered 

 panicles. Calyx-lobes lanceolate, acuminate, not prickly, woolly or 

 glabrous. Petals usually larger than the calyx-lobes, broadly obovate, 

 white. Fruit elongated, rarely subglobose, the numerous red carpels on 

 a glabrous receptacle. Roxb. Flor. Ind. II, 518; Wall. Cat. 728; Kurz 

 For. Flora Brit. Burm. I, 439 ; Hook. Ic. PI. t. 349 ; Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. 

 II, 34J. B.pirmatus, Willd. B. asper, Don Prodr. 234; Wall. Cat. 74J. 



Perak; at 3900 feet. Wray, at 4500 feet. No. 4187. Distrlb. Bri- 

 tish India, Java. 



6. Ptrus, Linn. 



Trees or shrubs. Leaves deciduous, simple or pinnate ; stipules 

 deciduous. Flowers white red or pink, in terminal cymes or corymbs ; 

 bracts subulate or linear. Calyx-tube urceolate turbinate or obconic, 



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