ROSACE. bly 
Sup-Srecres XVIII.—Rubus macrophyllus. Weihe. 
Pirate CCCCL. 
Bab. Man. Brit. Bot. ed. v. p. 102. 
Barren stem arching-prostrate, angular, sparingly pilose with 
spreading hairs, prickles numerous, slender, short, deflexed, from a 
dilated slightly compressed base. Leaves of the barren stem qui- 
nate or ternate ; leaflets thin, sub-glabrous or pilose above, green, 
felted beneath or densely hairy only on the veins; terminal leaflet 
oval, obovate, sub-rhomboidal or roundish, rounded, sub-cordate or 
_ narrowed at the base, shortly acuminate or cuspidate at the apex, 
doubly or irregularly and often bluntly serrate. Flowers in a 
slender panicle, with the upper branches short, spreading or corym- 
bose, the lower ones sometimes longer and sub-racemose; rachis 
and peduncles more or less densely pilose, with a few gland- 
tipped setze and numerous slender, straight, declining prickles. 
Sepals felted, stiffly-hairy, loosely reflexed. 
“q, R. umbrosus. Arrhenius. 
* Prickles slender from a large base. Leaves quinate ; leaflets 
doubly and patently dentate, velvety or slightly felted beneath ; 
terminal leaflet broadly obovate cuspidate; panicle with slender 
prickles. Tip of sepals linear. Corolla rose-coloured. It. car- 
pinifolius (Blox.). Terminal leaflet sometimes divided into three. 
* 8, R. macrophyllus. Weihe & Nees. 
* Prickles small, short, from a very large base. ‘Leaves quinate 
or ternate ; leaflets irregularly dentate-serrate, hairy only on the 
veins, and rarely felted beneath; terminal leaflet elliptical or 
_ broadly obovate ; panicle with slender prickles. Sepals leaf-pointed. 
Corolla white. (R.G.12.) Leaflets often very large. Stem often 
with a few aciculi and setze. A very variable plant. 
“, R. Schlechtendalii. Weihe & Nees. 
*‘ Prickles short, small, from a very large base. Leaves usually 
quinate ; leaflets doubly and patently dentate, usually hairy only 
on the veins, not felted beneath ; terminal leaflet long, obovate, 
acuminate, wedge-shaped or sub-cordate at the base; panicle with 
Strong prickles. Sepals with a linear point. Corolla white. 
(R. G.11.) Hardly distinguishable from var. (. 
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